In this episode I detail my production workflow for my new show, Fractal Bitcoin. I publish daily episodes both as video and audio-only. Fractal Bitcoin covers Bitcoin news and other Bitcoin topics. 

Overview my current audio equipment setup: 

• RE20 microphone — https://products.electrovoice.com/na/en/re20/
• sE Electronics DM1 Dynamite Active Inline Preamp — https://seelectronics.com/products/dm1/
• Neve Portico II Channel Strip — https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/rupert-neve-designs-portico-ii-channel
• Sound Devices MixPre-6 Gen.1 — https://www.sounddevices.com/product/mixpre-6/

Overview my production workflow: 

• Gather posts and news stories from Nostr, X and a few other industry websites. (Takes me around 2 hours) 
• Order all the posts and stories for the shownotes. 
• Create a title for the episode. 
• Create a 16x9 thumbnail for the episode using ChatGPT which uses DALL-E 3 to generate images. — https://chatgpt.com/
• Restart my computer. 
• Arrange all the browser tabs. 
• Open OBS Studio and do a short test recording. (My audio levels, video camera and lighting stay the same everyday) 
• I record my episode as if it’s LIVE to a .mov file at 1920x1080, 60 frames per second, video bitrate at 16,000 kbps, and audio bitrate at 2304 kbps. (My average video is about 15 min. long, which ends up being around a 2Gb .mov file) 

First I produce the video:

• Process the audio in iZotope RX: 
  • Make it a mono file, usually
  • Silence any lipsmacks and noises (can’t delete anything because the audio has to line up with the video)
  • Level it to -16.5 LUFS mono or -13.5 LUFS stereo (for video)
  • Save it as a 32-bit .wav file
• Bring the raw video and processed audio into Screenflow. Usually I don’t need to make any edits but sometimes I do. — https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
• Render the video as a .mp4 file at 1920x1080, 60 frames per second, video bitrate at 16,000 kbps, and audio bitrate at 256 kbps and audio sample rate at 48kHz. (The resulting file size ends up being the same as the raw video recording — about 2Gb for a 15 min. long file) 
• Upload and publish the video to YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute, TikTok, and Flare.pub (a Nostr platform to which I upload a smaller 960x540 version)
• I promote my YouTube video on Nostr, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and a few other platforms. 
• I also post the Youtube link to my Locals community that I’m growing. 
• I also use Opus Clip to create 5 shorts from each of my daily videos. I post all 5 to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok and LinkedIn. — https://www.opus.pro/

Then I produce the audio-only podcast:

• I edit the audio a bit: 
  • Remove any isolated umms and flubs
  • Reduce the length of any dead air, if there is any, in order to speed up the pacing slightly. 
• Level it to -18.5 LUFS mono or -15.5 LUFS stereo (for audio-only podcast) 
• Save it as a 32-bit .wav file as well as an .mp3 file (96 kbps mono or 192 kbps stereo). 
• Tag the .mp3 using ID3 Editor. — http://www.pa-software.com/id3editor/
• Upload .mp3 to Captivate along with shownotes and publish. — https://www.captivate.fm/
• For my website I use Podpage which automatically brings in each podcast episode from Captivate as a blog post. I’m able to quickly optimize the post, add the YouTube video, and add images, etc. — https://www.podpage.com/

FRACTAL BITCOIN LINKS: 

• YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@fractalbitcoin
• Rumble — https://rumble.com/c/c-5471042
• Twitter — https://twitter.com/fractalBitcoin
• Nostr — https://nostr.com/npub1jz42cy8qxw6dres86sn0cr42hww24pnjqssa4k9wxqvzm5l0mvqsq2f5ku
• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/fractalbitcoin/

A GREAT BITCOIN RESOURCE: 

• BOOK — The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous — https://saifedean.com/tbs

OTHER NOTES:

The start date for the next PES semester is JUNE 4, 2024! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)

Check out the PES YouTube channel.

My smaller course for editors/producers who want higher-paying clients: Getting New Clients at Higher Rates. 

Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,

~Chris

I overview 8 podcast production tips and techniques from recent blog posts (see list below).

1. Upward Compression --*** FabFilter video on Upward Compression
2. Is It Necessary to Tweak the Sound of Royalty-free/Stock Music Tracks?
3. Want To Approach Potential Clients but You Have a Fear of Rejection --*** Rejection Proof book
4. Unplugged Kingsize Megaphones in the Pähni Nature Centre by students of the Estonian Academy of Arts
5. Can Some Particular Microphones Exacerbate Sibilance?
6. Podcast Editing: A Chore or Labor of Love?
7. Are Your Podcast Episodes Loud Enough?
8. Independent Podcast Editors and Producers: Are You Profiting Enough?

• If you ever have questions please reach out!
• The start date for the next PES semester is February 20, 2024! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)
• Check out the PES YouTube channel
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find useful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/
• My smaller course for editors/producers who want higher-paying clients: Getting New Clients at Higher Rates

Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,
~Chris

Today I’m going to discuss some mistakes I’ve made producing podcasts.

Microphone: In this episode I’m using my Electro-Voice RE320 microphone plugged into my Neve Portico II channel strip (using compression, EQ and a bit of saturation). The same microphone you see in my daily short videos here.

I mention a recent hiking experience I had where a guy who saw my shirt (which says Ask Me About My Podcast) and asked, "What's your podcast?" And then immediately added, "JUST KIDDING!” We all laughed and he didn’t ask again so I didn’t mention my podcast at all. HA

• I published one of my client’s episodes with 30 seconds of silence at the beginning. The client alerted me and I fixed it immediately.
• During an online recording session, after a participant dropped off and then returned, I forgot to press record again in Squadcast, but of course I was recording a local backup which I ended up using (though it was a bit of a pain because all participants were mixed together in the backup recording). NOTE: Squadcast fixed this issue a long time ago.
• On an in-person recording session I forgot to hit record and realized it after about 5 minutes so we had to start the episode over again and sort of feign authentic enthusiasm when redoing the intro.
• I've mixed audio on my monitor speakers while mistakenly using the calibration profile for my headphones.
• Untold inaccuracies using processors too aggressively, or not aggressively enough — Compression, de-noise, de-plosive, EQ, etc.

• If you ever have questions please reach out!
• You can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email a few times per week or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.
• The start date for the next PES semester is January 10, 2023! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)
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Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,
~Chris

My guest is Andrew Chadwick, long time radio engineer, and audio mixer and editor for Pod Save America!

We discussed so much - here's a few things we covered:

• Extreme time pressure when producing audio
• Receive files, make edits, mix and assemble the show
• Submitting audio for QC
• Tight turnaround: Start recording at 1 PM Central, finish recording around 2:30 PM Central, post at 4 PM Central
• Manually ducking everyone when they’re not speaking
• Adobe Audition
• Different sessions for each segment of the show
• Limiting
• Audition’s Tube compressor plugin
• Mix to 32 bit 44.1kHz WAV file, then create the MP3
• AM Radio experience

Thanks for being a great guest, Andrew!

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Thanks to Focusrite for sponsoring this episode! If you haven't checked out the new Focusrite Scarlett 3rd Gen. series of interfaces yet, you can see them here.

NOTE: I did not do any post processing on any of the audio in this episode, in order for you to hear the difference between the two microphones as well as the Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen.

Sounds a lot different from a normal episode, right? That's because of the lack of compression and EQ, etc.

Announcements:

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• Upcoming episodes: Andrew Chadwick and Sarah Wendel!

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My guest is Tom Kelly - audio engineer, podcast producer and editor at Clean Cut Audio. Check out his own shows - Reminiscent, Podcast Me Anything, and Podcarnage.

We discussed almost a million things, including:

• Shure SM7b
• Apogee Ensemble
• Pro Tools 12
• Double enders
• AKG Perception 420
• Macbook Pro (maxed out)
• Waves WLM meter on Master Buss to determine LUFS level.
• Noise Shaping 1, 2, or 3 dither - when downsampling from 24 bit to 16 bit.
  MP3 - 128kbps stereo,
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Kensington SlimBlade trackball
• Strip silence, threshold of -29 db
• RX6 voice de-noise
• RX6 de-reverb
• Waves de-esser
• FabFilter Pro-Q 3
• Waves Vocal Rider
• Waves API 2500
• All vocals sent to stereo aux
• LinMB
• Maxim (only catching clips/peaks, not actually doing any dynamic work)
• Dither noise-shaping 3
• WAV files: 16 bit / 44.1 kHz
• MP3s: 128kbps stereo
• Yamaha HS7s
• ATH-M50 headphones
• Squadcast
• Klipsch earbuds

Thanks for being a great guest, Tom!

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Announcements:

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• The newly formed International Podcast Association wants to hear your voice! Please take a short survey here: https://internationalpodcastassociation.org/survey
• Upcoming episodes: Tom Kelly, Andrew Chadwick, and Sarah Wendel!

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My guest is Scott Somerville, audio engineer and podcast producer!

Here's some of what we discussed in terms of Scott's equipment, software, workflow, etc.:

• Wondery studio: Mac mini, UA Apollo 8 interface, Cloudlifter, RE20’s, Pro Tools. Plays theme song, adds a segment, edits it, mixes it, Art19 for hosting, etc.
• Headphones: Sony MDR7506
• Speakers: Genelec 1029 (powered) with 4” woofers
• Home - SM57, UA Apollo (2 inputs)
• Mobile - Macbook pro, Presonus interface, various mics
• Plugins: Waves SSL E and G channel strips, Waves F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ (adaptable in itself, vocal cleaner preset), Waves WLM+ to monitor levels
• iZotope RX: de-click, etc.
• Lots of automation
• He chimes in on the “Ask Eliza Anything” podcast

Thanks for being a great guest, Scott!

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Announcements:

• The newly formed International Podcast Association wants to hear your voice! Please take a short survey here: https://internationalpodcastassociation.org/survey
• The next semester of PES starts September 10, 2019 -- and the next semester after that will start in January 2020!
• Join our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 9-11 PM Eastern / 6-8 PM Pacific via YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook!
• Upcoming episodes: Scott Somerville, Tom Kelly, and Andrew Chadwick!

Big Thanks to everyone who comments on the website Daily Goody posts!

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My guest is Barry Gary from The Louisville Cycling Podcast! He hosts and produces the show, and he is a graduate of Podcast Engineering School.

We discussed a lot, including:

• Zoom L-12 digital mixer
• Using Zencastr, Zoom and exploring Squadcast
• Heil PR-40
• Shure SM7b
• Cloudlifter
• He also has an RE-320, Rode Procaster, Shure SM-58's, and some Sennheiser broadcast headsets that I can use in noisy locations
• dbx 286s
• Reaper
• iZotope RX 7
• Mac Pro desktop machine
• Waves plugins
• For my remote recording he uses either a Zoom FN8 or H5
• Using plugins in Reaper (EQ, gate, compressors, etc)
• Mix down to WAV
• Detailed edit in Twistedwave
• Assemble all episode audio Audition including music, intro, ads, conclusions, etc.
• Final mixdown to a stereo WAV at 48K, as well as stereo MP3

Thanks for being a great guest, Barry!

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Announcements:

• The newly formed International Podcast Association wants to hear your voice! Please take a short survey here: https://internationalpodcastassociation.org/survey
• The next semester of PES starts September 10, 2019.
• Join our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 9-11 PM Eastern / 6-8 PM Pacific via YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook!
• Upcoming episodes: Barry Gary, Scott Somerville, and Tom Kelly!

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My guest is Zachariah Moreno, Co-Founder & CEO at SquadCast.fm! He's also cohost of Between 2 Mics podcast.

We discussed tons including:

• New SquadCast V2 features
• ATR2100-USB
• Blue Yeti
• Focusrite 2i2 interface
• Pixelbook - Chrome OS, touch screen,
• Squadcast - WAV. files 16/44.1
• Adobe Audition or Pro Tools
• Headliner, Wavve, Buffer
• Simplecast V2
• How are you guys able to be so quickly responsive if and when there are issues?!

Thanks for being a great guest, Zach!

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NOTE: In this episode I’m using a Sennheiser e835 microphone into my Portico 2 channel strip and using these plugins in post: KIT BB N105, Shadow Hills Class A Mastering Compressor, Saturn 2, and Aquamarine 4.

• Record all raw tracks at a healthy level (not too low or too hot)
• Set all raw tracks to the same LUFS before bringing them into your DAW. (I do this at the end of my cleanup phase after I remove background noise, plosives, hums, and other blemishes)
• Use Compression and/or MaxxVolume/Vocal Rider to compress/tame the loud parts as well as boost the lower volume parts. (NOTE: This step will effectively amplify any background noise, so be sure to absolutely minimize the background noise before pressing record!)
• Adjust the overall level of each participant so they all sound good compared to each other. (as part of your mixing phase, where you can also use other processing like EQ, saturation, etc.)
• After rendering the final episode audio, process this file so it adheres to the “unofficial” loudness standards of podcasting: -19 LUFS for mono episodes, or -16 LUFS for stereo episodes.

• If you ever have questions please reach out!
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• The start date for the next PES semester is January 10, 2023! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)
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Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,
~Chris

My guest is Travis Vengroff - producer, editor, and sound designer of audio dramas including Liberty, The White Vault, Vast Horizon, and the creator of Dark Dice - all under the umbrella of Fool and Scholar Productions. 

And they were just announced as an honoree for the Webby Awards for Music and Sound Design in Podcasting! 

Some of what we discussed:

• Power regulator
• Focusrite 6i6
• Rode NTK mic, tube, external power supply
• Asus computer
• MixCraft software to record. 
• Reaper for mixing 
• H4n
• H5n
• Mixcraft to edit

And here's a briefly overview of Travis' post-production workflow:

1. All files are compiled onto a timeline in Mixcraft and EQ them to ensure a uniform quality.
2. I'll do a dialogue cut using the multiple takes given to me (each actor records remotely) with a basic ambient layer or two for context. 
3. From there I'll make a second pass, adding ambiance and sound effects while fine-tuning all vocal tracks.  If it's a stock audio track I've already recorded it goes in now. If it's something that needs to be recorded, I'll mark the timestamp. Processing takes place while I edit each sound.
4. I make an additional pass to record general sound effects, and a few more passes while recording motion sounds, footsteps, and similar noises that people unconsciously make.
5. The writer listens to the project for the first time and I make changes based on their suggestions.
6. I'll do a final pass making fine tuning, then export everything as STEM tracks with pre-labels for SFX, CHAR (character), and AMB (ambiance), before zipping and sending to the mixing engineer. S/he will make a few passes, I'll get them a revision list, and we repeat the process until we get the final mastered track. The writer hears the second to last mix and offers feedback.

Thanks for sharing so much great info, Travis!

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Great conversation with Adam Gordon Bell, host of CoRecursive where he and guests discuss Software Engineering. He's on twitter @adamgordonbell

We covered a lot:

• Pyle Pro PD
• Shure A81WS
• Rode boom arm
• MixPre-6
• Macbook Pro
• Zencastr
• Adobe Audition - 2 templates
• Mixing to FLAC
• Auphonic
• RX 6 -- de-reverb, vocal isolate,

Thanks for being an awesome guest, Adam!

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (from May 10 through May 22). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

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Dig this wonderful chat I had with Dan Radin, Founder and CEO of Auxbus! Dan has a ton of pro audio experience including being a Neumann Product Manager, Alesis Product Manager, and working with many other companies including InMusic and Harmon.

*NOTE: Podcraft recently became Auxbus ;)

We discussed many interesting topics. Enjoy listening.

And here's some of the podcasting equipment Dan currently uses:

• AT875R short shotgun mic
• Blue boom arm
• Presonus Audiobox USB96 interface
• Mac computer
• HD280 Pro headphones

Thanks for being such a great guest, Dan!

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Big Thanks to everyone who comments on the website Daily Goody posts!

Here's the list of plugins I mention in the episode:

• CLA-76
• Fabfilter Pro-MB
• Fabfilter Pro-Q3
• Fabfilter Pro-DS
• Vocal Rider (Fast mode, with Vocal Sensitivity all the way up)
• Scheps Omni Channel
• soothe from Oeksound
• Kramer Tape
• Ozone 8 Vintage Tape
• J37 Tape
• spiff from Oeksound
• Gullfoss
• Ozone 8 Spectral Shaper
• Fabfilter Saturn
• True Iron
• Abbey Road TG Mastering
• API 2500
• Puigchild 660

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

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Enjoy my awesome conversation with Evo Terra, host of Podcast Pontifications, and podcast strategist who has been podcasting since Oct. 14, 2004! He's the 40th podcaster EVER!!! And he's also the head honcho at Simpler Media Productions.

We discussed TONS including:

• The real history of the beginnings of podcasting!
• Shure SM7b
• Fethead
• Zoom H6
• Mac Mini 2018
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro
• iZotope RX 6
• Waves Sibilance plugin
• Dealing with sibilance with EQ
• On location recording with lavaliers (SM93's), Zoom H4, H6, and SM58’s
• Visiting France, Copenhagen, Belgium, England, Italy, Bangkok, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia

Thanks for sharing so much, Evo!

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (from April 12 through April 24). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

A few announcements:

• Join our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 7-9 PM Eastern / 4-6 PM Pacific via YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook!
• The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
• Upcoming episodes: Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, Travis Vengroff, Zach Moreno, Barry Gary, and Scott Somerville!

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

My guest is Nick Dunkerley, Creative Director at Hindenburg! They make the very popular podcasting DAW software Hindenburg Journalist Pro.

We discussed LOTS including:

• Lots of specifications of Hindenburg
• Nick's personal equipment: RE20 microphone and Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
• Nick's experience building a radio station in Africa
• His engineering team at Hindenburg
• Automated EQ profiles
• Clipboard
• Comparison of the Pro version vs the regular version
• Differences in the podcasting industry and events in Europe vs. USA
• See some screenshots of Hindenburg here

Thanks for being a great guest, Nick!

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Listen to me talk with each and every 2019 Podcast Movement Technical Track speaker about their presentations, except, unfortunately, for the Hall of Fame podcaster Dave Jackson. Podcast Movement will be held in Orlando, Florida from August 13-16, 2019. Find all the info at https://podcastmovement.com/.

"Skype Alternatives" presented by Jody Maberry

"5 Steps to Building a Sought-After Podcast Production Company" presented by a panel including:

• Steve Stewart
• Darrell Darnell

"Painting Stories with Sound - Podcast Editing for Beginners" presented by Nick Dunkerley from Hindenburg.

"Podcasting Systems: The 3 Key Automated Systems Podcast Hosts and Guests Need to Have in Place to Scale" presented by Yann Ilunga.

"The Most Common Audio Problems in Podcasts and How to Fix Them" presented by Marcus dePaula.

"People Breathe: The Art of Editing an Interview" presented by Carrie Caulfield Arick.

"Help Us Help You: Tech Support Tips for Podcasters" presented by a panel including:

• Mackenzie Bennett (Blubrry)
• Dave Jackson (Libsyn)
• Mike Dell (Blubrry)
• Shannon Martin (Podbean)

"Post Production: Effective Tips & Techniques for a Seamless Edit" presented by Sarah Wendel.

"Great Quality, Low Cost + ROI" presented by Alexis Parris.

"Advanced Audio Production: Waaay Beyond Just Removing Umms, Etc." presented by Chris Curran, founder and lead instructor of Podcast Engineering School.

And special thanks to Ralph M. Rivera of Podcaster's Toolbox for the audio introductions in this episode.

• Join the Podcaster’s Lounge #Livestream every Wednesday evening. Details here. Watch and comment on podcasting news, Q&A and conversation. Lounge with your podcast friends and fans.
• Note: The music I play as the outro at the very end of this episode was played and recorded by me about 25 years ago ;)
• Have fun exploring previous episodes of this show the Podcast Engineering Show.
• If you ever need help with your technical production, please reach out to me.

I appreciate you listening, and rock on!

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Returning all-star guest Max Flight helps me cover 17 ways to re-evaluate your podcast this summer, and we also discuss Max's latest podcast production workflow, equipment, software and more.

Max has been producing aviation podcasts since 2008:

• Airplane Geeks (now over 700 episodes!)
• The UAV Digest (looking at unmanned aircraft or drones)
• Check out his main site — http://thirtythousandfeet.com/
• He was previously on episodes 20 and 39 of this show
• Check out his equipment, software, services and more below...

1. Update your goals
2. Change the format
3. Start using chapters
4. Personal focus on eliminating verbal crutches. (A short duration of intense focus will provide years of good results)
5. Change and/or add equipment
6. Sell old equipment
7. Treat yourself to that mic you've always wanted
8. Sound absorption and diffusers
9. Add a new segment
10. Cover new yet pertinent subject matter topics
11. Publish in video format as well
12. Publish better shownotes
13. Revamp your marketing
14. Evaluate the shows overall effectiveness
15. Hire a VA
16. Bring on a cohost
17. Decide to end your show???
18. Perhaps decide you want to become a professional podcast engineer/producer and earn a great living producing podcasts for clients - from home?!

Big changes since PES 20 and PES 39 mostly involve a simplification of the signal path:

• Skype and cohost multi-enders replaced by Riverside.fm
• Behringer mixer (still going strong since 2009!) replaced with MixPre
• The MixPre handles all mic pre-amplification
• Sound clips and pre-recorded segments played through Riverside, replacing an iOS soundboard
• Backup recording is handled by the MixPre

Current equipment:

• Sound Devices MixPre-6
• Also use a MixPre-3 Gen 2 for field recordings
• Zoom H5 for field recordings, too
• Heil PR40
• Sennheiser MD46 interview mic
• Dell XPS 16 and MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2018 model, 2.9GHz i9 32 GB laptops
• Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones
• Yamaha HS5 monitors

Software:

• Riverside.fm (was Skype then Squadcast)
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro
• Audacity (yep!)
• iZotope RX 8 Advanced
• ID3 Editor for tagging

Services:

• Media hosting: Blubrry and Libsyn
• Website hosting: Bluehost and SiteGround

Notes from Max:

• I'm retired and traveling more which makes weekly podcast production a bit more difficult.
• Biggest current problem: At the home studio I mix/master with my Yamaha monitors, which I love. I can't master properly with the Audio Technica headphones when traveling.

• If you ever have questions please reach out!
• You can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email a few times per week or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.
• The start date for the next PES semester is Sep. 13, 2022! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/)

Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,
~Chris

My guest is Shawn Kitchen - host of the Northwest Corner Podcast. He lives in Spartanburg, SC, was formerly trained in radio and tv, and is currently records his show using a Live format to reduce post-production time.

We discussed his production workflow and equipment in detail, including:

• Using a Kindle tablet to play sound FX
• Riding faders Live
• Mixer has one knob compression on each channel
• Mic technique
• Using subgroups: Voices to one group, music to another group, then record each group separately on his Zoom H6
• Chris’s Compression Dynamics plugin within Audacity
• Noise reduction in Audacity by creating and using a custom noise profile (he removes 14 or 15 dB of noise!)
• Record everything 24 bit / 44.1 kHz
• Soundcloud
• Behringer X2222USB analog mixer
• Behringer UMC404HD interface
• Tascam DR-40 field recorder
• Zoom H6 field recorder
• Behringer XM8500 dynamic mics
• MXL FR-355K lavalier mics
• Audacity
• Hindenburg
• Soundpad app for Android on Kindle Fire 8HD tablet
• iRig 2 instrument interface
• Behringer headphone distribution amp and headphones (for up to 8 people)
• All post-production done in-house on Dell desktop with Core I5 processor using primarily Audacity, but have been using Hindenburg more frequently in recent time. Pre-recorded music tracks (except show theme) are separated into new tracks. All vocals are run through a combination of soft limiter, compression, and then amplification to -1.0 dB. Noise reduction is done at the *end* of all other processing, using a 5-second segment of silence with all mics open at the beginning of each recording session. I've found that applying noise reduction at the end yields us with the clearest results.

Thanks for being a great guest, Shawn!

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (from March 29 - April 10). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

Also hear:

1. A clip of me calling Bob Bergey on the phone and him recording us both on his RØDECaster Pro.
2. A clip of Addy Saucedo, author of The Podcast Planner, starting to interview me in the NAB podcast studio for her Modern Vintage Radio podcast. She decided not to use this interview because of audio quality issues. Hear for yourself.

A few announcements:

• The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
• Upcoming episodes: Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley, Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, Travis Vengroff, Zach Moreno and Barry Gary!
• Hang out on our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 7-9 PM Eastern / 4-6 PM Pacific!

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

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My guest is Glenn the Geek - founder of the Horse Radio Network (founded July 2008), cohost of Horses in the Morning, cohost of Finding Florida, and cofounder of the Florida Podcast Network.

Every morning he livestreams Horses in the Morning like this:

• Audio only livestream via Blogtalk originally, now via Mixlr.
• Has a 5 computer setup.
• Call-in Studio to take live phone calls via Skype.
• The master Live feed is sent out through Mixlr, which streams through their own app, as well as players embedded on their website.
• Producer sets up guests off-air.
• Hosts and producer chat privately using Skype.
• The final audio podcast is published within 30 minutes after finishing the Livestream.
• Uses a 12 year old Belkin mixer (still, after trying a few newer mixers).
• Uses ATR2100’s or the Behringer XM1800’s.
• All PC’s, no Mac’s.
• Uses Total Recorder to record Skype.
• Uses Mixcraft to edit.
• Uses Auphonic to run all episodes through, to tag and send to destinations.
• Plays sound clips via iTunes.

For the on-location recording of Finding Florida: 

• Go to a place and do ten activities in 3-4 days and record everything.
• For interviews, they record with a Tascam DR-05 and two XM1800 microphones.
• They also record on their phones (as a backup while recording with the DR-05) using the Hi-Q app on Android to record and immediately upload to Dropbox.
• There exists audio of Glenn breaking his ribs in the Daytona beach episode of Finding Florida!
• Post-production of episodes using Mixcraft to add music, transitions, etc.

Other hosts on the Horse Radio Network:

• All connect with and record guests using Skype.
• Use Google Sites for production notes.
• Are all hosts streaming Live? No.

*I asked Glenn if he ever recorded audio of any of his horses. He said YES - and he played some clips in this episode!

Thanks for being a great guest, Glenn!

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Enjoy my chat with James Cridland. He's the editor of Podnews which is a daily email and podcast that delivers tons of significant news and info.

Sign up for his amazing daily email here.

Listen to the daily audio version here.

We also discuss LUFS and Bitrates. Here are a couple of James' articles that we reference:

• The correct LUFS level: https://podnews.net/article/lufs-lkfs-for-podcasters
• The right bitrate to use: https://podnews.net/article/podcast-analysis

We also covered:

• RØDE Podcaster (USB microphone) - V2 has a quieter output, and a level LED that turns orange and red for peaking, etc.
• Auphonic Edit app to record on the road
• Hindenburg to record and edit. Some compression, EQ, etc.
• James publishes two versions of the Podnews daily podcast: An 80 kbps AAC+ at -16 LUFS for his regular feed, and a 320 kbps stereo MP3 at -14 LUFS for Alexa and Spotify. Note: Alexa and Spotify both cache your audio but don’t change the LUFS level.
• Self hosts with Amazon S3, and using Amazon Athena for some stats
• Macbook Pro

Thanks for sharing so much, James!

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Enjoy my chat with Carrie Caulfield Arick - podcast editor, host of Just Podcasting, and owner of Ya Ya Podcasting.

We discussed tons, including:

• Adobe Audition: Essential Sound, Spectral Heal as needed, sometimes a De-esser, light compression, speech volume leveler (careful setting), dynamics processing, Match Loudness
• RX7 Advanced: De-plosive, EQ, Normalize, De-Ess, Mouth De-click, Voice De-noise
• ATR-2100
• Samson Q2U
• Squadcast
• iZotope Nectar and Nectar 3
• Adding a tiny bit of reverb
• Export as .WAV (32 bit float for Audition)
• Dell Inspiron 8th gen, i7 quad-core, 16GB RAM, 2-in-1 hybrid drives
• iBuyPower i7 7th gen processor, 16GB RAM, hybrid drives
• On location: Zoom H4N, Tascam DR-40, two ATR-2100's

Thanks for sharing so much, Carrie!

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (March 15-27). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

I also recapped my experience at NAB last week -- details.

First I made a few announcements:

• Enter to win a win a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 here!: https://focusrite.com/Focusrite-Podcast-Engineering-School-Giveaway
• The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
• Upcoming episodes: Carrie Caulfield, ‘Glenn the Geek’ Hebert, Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley, Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, and Travis Vengroff!
• Podnews - a daily briefing in your inbox every weekday about podcasting and on-demand.

My awesome booth mates at the Ask The Expert booth in the Podcast Pavilion area!:

• Addy Saucedo - The Podcast Planner. She also interviewed me for her Modern Vintage Radio podcast.
• Ralph and Carol Lynn Rivera - Podcaster's Toolbox.

Interesting: The podcast studio across the aisle. Condenser mics with no pop filters. Hmm.

I met Brandon Gonzales in person! (my guest on episode 84)

Dan Hughley from Focusrite interviewed me in their booth for their upcoming podcast.

SSL - I met Fernando who lives in Denver. He let me mix for a bit on a Live console. I also saw the new SiX in person!

Waves - I dropped by their booth.

Dan Dugan Sound Design (my guest on episode 101) - dropped by his booth and thanked him in person for being my guest.

Joel from Sound Devices.

Michelle from Heil.

Mark Bakos from Cleanfeed.

Ira from Samson.

Greg Laney from Apogee.

Gina Clement from Gator. We discussed the Gator Frameworks GFW-MIC-0822 Telescoping Boom Mic Stand.

Arielle Nissenblatt from EarBuds Podcast Collective.

Ever Gonzalez in person! He's the founder of The Outlier Podcast Festival, a traveling national event held in major cities across the U.S. *In Denver July 12-13!

Zachary Davis from Sound Education, a conference for educational audio producers and listeners. October 10-12, 2019 at Harvard University.

Audionamix, regarding the IDC: Instant Dialogue Cleaner plugin.

Philipp Sonnleitner, CEO of Mikme!

Soren Pederson, Sr. Product Specialist (Wired Microphone) at Shure.

Sarah Logan Gregory - Host of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Podcast.

Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope!

Rodger Cloud - He gave me a Cloudlifter!

James Cridland from Podnews!

Didn't get to meet: Durin Gleaves from Adobe, and the RODE rep at the B&H booth.

REMINDER: Enter to win a win a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 HERE!

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Hang out with me and Emily Prokop. She is the host of The Story Behind podcast, a podcast editor and consultant, and author of The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects!

We discussed Emily's equipment and workflow, and lots more:

• Blooper track: She copies clips onto a dedicated track for bloopers.
• Handling loud breaths: She moves all the loud breaths onto a dedicated track where she lowers their volume!
• Noise reduction
• Hi-pass filtering
• In her "studio": Moving blankets around her desk and curtains to dampen room noise, white shears
• Reaper and Reaper templates
• iZotope RX 6: De-plosive, Mouth De-click
• ATR2100 microphone
• Sony MDR-7506 Headphones
• Publishing a 96kbps mono MP3 for her show
• Auphonic leveling to -16 LUFS (! her mono track!)
• Hardwired to internet
• Previously Emily was on Dave Jackson’s show discussing structuring and presenting good content on podcasts because she has more than 10 years editing experience in print journalism. That episode is titled Journalism 101 For Podcasters.

Thanks for sharing so much great info, Emily!

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Hear and discern the audio quality differences between 3 popular podcast recording services - Zencastr, Squadcast and Ringr. Then let me know which service you think I used to record clip #1, #2 and #3. I play each of them twice and also give my evaluation of the 3 clips.

Also enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (March 1-14). Here's the link to view all those blog posts: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/daily-goody/

And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or every week. Sign up here.

I made some announcements, too:

• PES starts April 16th, and we conduct the course Live every quarter.
• Upcoming episodes: Emily Prokop, Carrie Caulfield, ‘Glenn the Geek’ Hebert, Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley and Evo Terra!
• NAB conference - we will be manning the Ask The Expert booth in the Podcast Pavilion area from April 8-11 in Las Vegas. Addy Saucedo with her Podcast Planner, and Ralph & Carol Lynn Rivera with their Podcaster’s Toolbox.

If you have any questions please let me know :)

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Colin Gray joins me! He is the founder of The Podcast Host, host of Podcraft and Hostile Worlds, and founder of the podcast app named Alitu.

We discussed many areas of Colin's podcast production:

• Studio in his office
• Rode PSA-1 boom arms
• 3 Rode Procaster microphones
• Yamaha MG10 mixer
• Zoom H5 and H6
• Mac mini
• Adobe Audition
• iZotope RX7
• Editing in Audition
• Final MP3's: 128kbps stereo or 96kbps mono
• Hosts at Blubrry, Buzzsprout, and Transistor.fm

Thanks for being a great guest, Colin!

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's.

Here's the link to view all those blog posts: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/daily-goody/

And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or every week. Sign up here.

I made some announcements, too:

• If you can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. If you know any 18-25 year olds who might want to produce podcasts and earn really good money doing it, please mention PES to them. I appreciate it!
• Podfest was awesome. If you want to grow a podcasting business or grow your presence in the podcast industry, the major podcasting events are SO helpful.
• PES starts April 16th!
• Upcoming episodes: Colin Gray, Emily Prokop, Carrie Caulfield, 'Glenn the Geek' Hebert, Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley and Evo Terra!

If you have any questions please let me know :)

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I overview 9 podcast production tips and techniques from recent Daily Goody posts Oct. 25 - Dec. 10, 2021 (see list below). You can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

• What is Mastering in Podcast Production?
• Musicians Can Fund Their Music Careers by Earning $50-150 Per Hour Producing Podcasts From Home
• Name One Song That Sounds Amazing/Perfect to You
• AKG K 240 MK II Stereo Studio Headphones
• Background Noise Is Exacerbated by Compression
• SplitEQ from Eventide
• 3 Different Categories of “Noise” to Avoid When Recording Podcasts
• One Participant Using a Condenser Mic, the Other Using a Dynamic Mic
• Do You Feel Hurried or Chill When You Edit Your Podcast?

• Podcast Services Mastermind Workshop ($199) - A one day immersive and collaborative in-person event designed to build & grow your service based business! Full explanation of the program HERE.
• If you ever have questions please reach out!
• The start date for the next PES semester is Sep. 13, 2022! (fyi, the course is delivered once per quarter)
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/)
• My smaller course that I mentioned: Getting New Clients at Higher Rates

Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything,
~Chris

Brodie Brazil is here! He's a TV broadcaster and hosts the Oakland A's & San Jose Sharks Pre/Postgame Live on NBC Sports California. Check out his YouTube. He has won 13 Regional Emmy Awards and nominated for 32!

Also check out his podcast, Brodie Brazil.

We discussed a ton, including:

• Packing blankets and rug in his home studio
• Mics: TLM103, SM7B through Fethead, RE320's, MD46's, HMD26
• Mixer: Soundcraft 12 MTK
• Channel strips: dbx 286's
• Remote interface: UMC202HD
• Recorders: Zoom H5 & H6
• Computer: MacBook Pro running Audition (old version!)
• Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT-770's
• On-location: Zoom H6 w/ two RE320’s
• TV mic: Sennheiser MD-46
• Because I do a lot of live streaming - need most of my processing (comp, EQ, de-essing, gate) baked in. So I have that for both the Neumann and Shure mics. I do add a little post-processing for podcasts and YouTube videos with just some light compression... normalization, then clip gain matching to -16 lufs.
• Everything exported to .wav for videos and editing. eventually .mp3 for podcasting to... Soundcloud(!) I know, but it works best for me (I can explain).

Thanks for hanging with us, Brodie!

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This is quick announcement episode. If this is your first time hearing the show, check out previous episodes where I'm interviewing people about their equipment, software and production workflow.

Enter to win $300 here!

Get $350 off Podcast Engineering School tuition using coupon code PME19. Next semester starts April 16th!

Thanks for listening, and congrats on all your learning!

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Great discussion with Allan Tépper. He is the host of Beyond Podcasting, as well as a  a Pro Audio/Video specialist, tech journalist, broadcaster, author and consultant. (and my previous guest on episode 74)

*DISCLAIMER: We are not advocating for anyone to switch from MP3 to AAC (.m4a). If you're contemplating it, please do more research and decide for yourself.

Advanced Audio Coding is designed to be the successor of the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, known as MP3 format, which was specified by ISO/IEC in 11172-3 (MPEG-1 Audio) and 13818-3 (MPEG-2 Audio)

The widespread reluctance to even THINK about publishing podcast episodes in any other format than MP3.

.m4a is the most common extension, but not the only extension, used for AAC.

Sound quality: AAC sounds better than MP3 especially when encoded at lower bitrates. This means that your final episode file can be smaller in size and still sound as good or better than MP3.

Chris's experience: "When I convert my .WAV file to MP3 using iZotope RX 7, the resultant MP3 is 0.4 LUFS lower in volume than the original .WAV. Whereas when I convert to .m4a the resulting LUFS level of the .m4a is exactly the same as the original .WAV file. Interesting..."

Compatibility with ad insertion platforms: Rob Greenlee says, "Hey Chris, Most of the platforms that utilized dynamic ad insertion technology, oftentimes require MP3 files only."

TPES episodes that published in .m4a:

• 118 - Chris’s Goody Bag
• 119 - Bryan Entzminger

ID3 Tags: Bryan Entzminger says, "I did a test with an episode. I didn’t like that Libsyn didn’t pull the id3 info from the file (because it’s not an MP3) but that’s not a really big deal."

A few popular shows that use .m4a files:

• Podnews (James Cridland’s show, @ 44.1 kHz so far)
• 60 Sec Torah Byte (Zalman Levin / Podbean 44.1 kHz so far)
• Morning Mantra (Coach MK / Anchor)
• BeyondPodcasting (Allan Tépper’s show, @ 48 kHz)
• Podcast Engineering Show (Barry and Chris’s show, @ 48 kHz)

Technical analysis of top podcasts - James Cridland’s post looking at bitrate. LUFS, mono/stereo, etc.:
https://podnews.net/article/podcast-analysis?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2019-01-17

Blind tests in the late 1990s showed that AAC demonstrated greater sound quality and transparency than MP3 for files coded at the same bit rate.

Improvements include:

• more sample rates (from 8 to 96 kHz) than MP3 (16 to 48 kHz)
• up to 48 channels (MP3 supports up to two channels in MPEG-1 mode and up to 5.1 channels in MPEG-2 mode)
• higher coding efficiency for stationary signals (AAC uses a blocksize of 1024 or 960 samples, allowing more efficient coding than MP3's 576 sample blocks)
• higher coding accuracy for transient signals (AAC uses a blocksize of 128 or 120 samples, allowing more accurate coding than MP3's 192 sample blocks)
• much better handling of audio frequencies above 16 kHz
• more flexible joint stereo (different methods can be used in different frequency ranges)

*NOTE: NONE of these lists is exhaustive. We did not investigate every single program in existence ;)

Programs that can encode .m4a files:

• iTunes
• Fission (Mac only. Also can tag and create chapters. Allan Tépper’s favorite 1-track audio editor for Mac. Unique because it can also edit lossy formats without generation loss. Can’t save tag data but can copy and paste tag data. Chris was confused because Fission’s tag data doesn’t have a ‘Copyright’ field.)
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro (also can tag and create chapters. Allan Tépper’s favorite multitrack audio editor for conventional computers)
• TwistedWave (Mac and online only. Good program but no playback speed adjustment!)
• Amadeus Pro
• 3rd Party Encoder Plugins (Paul Figgiani suggested Sonnox’s Codec Toolbox ~47 USD and Pro Codec ~400 USD.)

Programs that encode MP3s using the Fraunhofer MP3 Encoder algorithm:

• Adobe Audition
• iTunes (Source: Cliff Ravenscraft on October 27, 2010)
• Windows Media Player (Source: Richard Farrar)

Programs for which you can buy an optional Fraunhofer plugin for US$339.15

• Pro Tools
• Logic
• Cubase
• Nuendo
• Sequoia
• Wavelab

Programs that DON’T use the Fraunhofer MP3 Encoder algorithm:

• Hindenburg
• Reaper
• RX 6, 7

Compatibility with players and apps: .m4a files are compatible with all podcast players we could find.

Thanks for sharing so much great info, Allan!

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Great conversation with Bryan Entzminger, host of Engaging Missions and podcast engineer/editor.

We discuss his podcast production and quite a bit about his preferred DAW which he is quite skilled in using: Hindenburg Journalist Pro.

Here is Bryan's Live Demonstration of Hindenburg Journalist Pro, and here's a 90-day free trial of Hindenburg Journalist Pro.

Here are Bryan's production details:

• Electro-Voice RE320
• Rolls cough switch
• Sound Devices MixPre-3
• For remote internet calls, I use a second computer (an old Dell) into the line in for the MixPre-3 using a hardware mix-minus in the MixPre
• I record 2 tracks right onto the SD card in the MixPre. I also run 2 tracks via USB into my MacBook Pro and record into Hindenburg Journalist Pro
• Voice profiler in Hindenburg can create custom profiles!
• For editing, I use Hindenburg Journalist Pro along with iZotope RX7 for audio restoration and Ozone 7 for mastering and a variety of Waves and other plugins depending on the need. I mix and edit in multitrack mode, export to WAV fully mastered but not normalized to -16/-19.
• I then bring that mastered file back into Hindenburg to level using the loudness matching and either convert to MP3 using Hindenburg or RX7. If I use Hindenburg, I'll also apply the id3 tags and upload right to Libsyn from there.

Also, Bryan got back to me about the Hindenburg auto-leveling feature that we discussed in the episode: "I did several checks with the auto-level with effects and it appears my original assumption was correct. The auto-level is at the "region" (clip) level upon input - prior to ANY processing within Hindenburg."

Thanks for sharing so much great info, Bryan!

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Enjoy my brief overview of the past 14 days of the Daily Goody.

Here's the link to view all those blog posts: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/daily-goody/

And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or every week. Sign up here.

I made some announcements, too:

• Soon I'll be discussing AAC (.m4a) vs. MP3 encoding (*And this episode is my first .m4a episode!!!)
• PES starts April 16th
• Will you be at Podfest Mar. 6-9 in Orlando? If so, let's hang out.
• Upcoming episodes with Bryan Entzminger, Brodie Brazil, and Colin Gray!
• Slight website revamp here
• Call for affiliates who want to promote PES and earn cashola

If you have any questions please let me know :)

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I chat with Brad Hargis, cohost of The Cinema Guys podcast, about how he records and produces episodes with his two cohosts, Justin and the Cinemaiden.

We discussed:

• Ferrite for on-location recording
• Microphones: ATR 2100 (Brad), Knox Gear KN-UM01 USB/XLR Mic (Cinemaiden), PylePro PDMIC58 (Justin)
• Mixer: Mackie ProFX8v2
• Recorders: Main EVISTR L53, backup EVISTR L150
• Edit with Audacity on a 15 inch MacBook Pro
• Auphonic
• iTunes to convert to a M4A file
• Recording: Mics connected via XLR to Mixer I record My mic (ATR 2100) on L channel and co-hosts(Knox and Pyle) on R channel. Record to WAV file on the L53 main recorder.
• After recording, copy audio files to computer and open in Audacity to 1. Use noise reduction, 2. Compress to level audio down, 3. Amplify to set audio to -1 dB, and 4. Use Nyquist Noise Gate on each channel.
• Edit all the audio adding music in post.
• Auphonic to set the final level to -15 LUFS.
• To finalize the file I import the .WAV into iTunes to convert to 96k Stereo M4A file adding artwork and metadata to the file.
• Upload file to Blubrry and post to my Wordpress website that is hosted on godaddy using PowerPress.

Thanks for being such a great guest, Brad!

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Enjoy my brief overview of the past 14 days of the Daily Goody.

Here's the link to view all those blog posts: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/daily-goody/

If you have any questions please let me know :)

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Enjoy this awesome chat with Jennifer Longworth, podcast editor and host of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast.

We talked about LOTS of podcast production topics. Here's a small portion of what we discussed:

• iZotope RX6 plugins: De-plosive, de-click, de-clip, hi-pass/lo-pass filters
• EQ presets for different clients
• Master to -16 LUFs with -2dB peak
• Mixing voices
• Squadcast to record remote guests
• Adobe Audition
• ATR 2100USB
• HP Workstation desktop computer
• Zoom H4N
• Sharing files via Dropbox

Thanks for being such a great guest, Jennifer!

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Enjoy these topics which I go over briefly:

• Ear Training
• Mixers
• The Connection Speed of Internet Guests
• Background Noise
• Mixdown Resolution
• Tape Emulation
• How Long Will it Take to Get Good?
• Storing Gear When Not in Use
• Area Rugs
• Using Templates in Your DAW
• Creating That Telephone Call Sound
• The Two Extremes of Editing Philosophy
• LUFS Loudness Standard, Kinda
• Deciding to Edit Other Shows for Money
• Lifetime Membership to the PES Closed Community of Alumni and Students

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Me and Noah Sniderman had an awesome chat. He is the producer of The Dopist and producer/host of Innovating Employment. He also works at CJRU in Toronto.

Here's some of what we discussed:

• SM7b
• Shure SM57 w/A81WS windscreen
• Sound Devices MixPre-3
• Adobe Audition
• iZotope RX 6: De-bleed, spectral de-noise, EQ (General Enhance preset), de-plosive, de-esser (Simple Voiceover preset),
• Auphonic: Desktop versions of both regular Auphonic as well as Auphonic Multitrack, and its crossgate feature
• Hazel
• Forecast app for chapters, etc.
• Spreaker
• Recording on location
• Shure Beta87a
• "I can log into my headless Mac Mini (at home) while I’m at work, and de-bleed in the other direction while I’m de-bleeding on my laptop. I use a program called Screens 4 for this."
• Tascam DR10x - inline recorder, records a backup 10dB lower
• Rode Reporter mic

Thanks for being such a great guest, Noah!

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I've attended every single Podfest since 2014. And this year it was great to see so many friends and colleagues in person again!

Here are some of my experiences, notes and highlights of the event:

"How to Use Compression & Normalization (Mandatory for Creating Professional Grade Audio)" ---> The full presentation will be published soon! 

Outline what I covered: 

• Normalization  (Peak and Loudness)  (When and where to normalize audio)
• Compression  (Why, controls)  (Demonstrations of compressors, upward compression, vocal riding, limiter, and a great sounding plugin chain) 

*Audio Production Challenge for my listeners: Compress the ultra-dynamic audio clip that I used for demonstration in my presentation and send me your processed audio file!

Links to Apps and Plugins I Mentioned in My Talk at Podfest 2022 on “Compression and Normalization”

Link to 4 recent overview posts: 

• What is Compression? (Audio Processing)
• Introduction to Compressor Controls
• What Are Audio Plugins? (Audio Processing)
• Introduction to Plugin Chains

• Spoke with several podcast industry pro's about Podcasting 22.0, crypto integrations into podcast feeds and websites, etc. Hardly anyone was talking about this. It's still VERY early. 
• The Florida Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit

Seth Silvers, CEO of Story On Media --- "The Roadmap To Using NFTs To Engage Your Podcast Audience and Increase Revenue"

• Focus on "how can NFTs help build my community, instead of how can NFTs make me money."
• Think of an NFT as an access card. 
• "Gratitude" NFTs just for people to support the show. (offer NFTs of every episode, etc.)
• Never-ending tickets. 
• Uncut.fm "Collect NFTs from your favorite podcasts"

TikTok presentation by Melissa Hughes

• *Mindset when creating TikTok posts: Document instead of create.

• Create a new short course??
• TikTok posting for marketing purposes? (Am I really going to commit to this?!?!)
• Join a songwriting group (which I discussed w/Ashley Lehmann)

Other interesting things I learned about:

• Snowpixel:  AI-generated images (Natalie Champa Jennings told me about this)
• "Dream 100", gatekeepers, (from my conversation with Seth Silvers) -- The Dream 100 are relationships with people and/or companies who can help me market my business to their audiences. Instead of focusing on marketing, focus on building these 100 relationships.  

• All in all very good
• Perhaps too many speakers and tracks, etc. 
• Felt a bit too spread out
• I should have bought groceries

• Seth Silvers
• Jennie Wren
• Steve Stewart and Mark Deal
• Glenn the Geek
• Mike Helms
• Marc Johanssen
• Roy Stegman
• Harry Duran
• Natalie Champa Jennings
• Ashley Lehmann
• Paul Desmond Adams
• Gordon Firemark
• Bryan Entzminger
• Julia Levine
• Ross Brand
• Dave Jackson
• Dan Hughley
• Daniel Abendroth
• MANY OTHERS! 

NOTE: The next semester of PES starts on June 28, 2022.

First, I give you my initial reactions and use cases for my new Sennheiser MKH-416 microphone. *NOTE: This is not an in-depth review or anything like that.

Also, don't miss two revealing samples of audio:

1. Audio Technica 8035 vs SennheiserMKH-416
2. My processed MKH-416 on my stream called Meditate With Chris

I also discuss the 416's:

• Specifications (at the bottom of this post)
• Quality: Lots of smooth clarity in mid and high end.
  Smooth low end.
• My accessories: Shock mount, My laser gun holder
• Testing close miking: Definitely getting plosives even when using the included foam windscreen. Plosives are easy to fix in post, but if you're streaming Live it would be awesome to avoid the plosives going out on the Livestream.
• My streaming use case: Picks up my HVAC unit really well, mostly because there are no walls in between.
• My Portico II processing: 48v Phantom Power, since mic is not close to my mouth I'm adding quite a bit of low end at 220 shelving, rolling off the low end around 80 Hz, using the Blue Silk mode, and my usual amount of to-tape compression (mild).

ANNOUNCEMENT: I started the Daily Goody!

I discuss a use case for Auphonic Multitrack - leveling all voices to the same LUFS level before mixing and editing.

I describe me EQ'ing the last quarter of a guests track because she moved away from the computer and there was suddenly background noise and she also lost some clarity.

NEWS: Podcaster's Lounge is now on hiatus.

NEWS: I just started a twice-daily meditation stream called Meditate With Chris

REVEALED: My 5 days in a cabin in the woods.

The 9 books I mentioned which are going to help me excel in 2019: (in no particular order)

• Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Laws of Manifestation by David Spangler
• Above Life’s Turmoil by James Allen
• The One Thing by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan

Here's to the best 2019 you could possibly have!!!

Sennheiser MKH-416 Specifications:

• Transducer: Pressure Gradient/Interference Receiver Condenser
• Polar Pattern: Low, Mid: Hypercardioid -- Above 2 kHz: Lobar
• Frequency Response: 40 to 20,000 Hz
• Dynamic Range (Typical): 117 dB
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 81 dB
• Maximum Input Sound Level: 130 dB (@ 1 KHz)
• Sensitivity: 25 mV/Pa +/- 1dB
• Power Requirements: Phantom Power 48 V (± 12 v)
• Output Impedance: Nominal Impedance: 25 Ohms, Minimum Terminating Impedance: 800 Ohms
• Output Connectors: XLR-3M Type
• Pad: None
• Low Frequency Roll-Off: None
• Applications: Film, Radio and Television, Especially for Outside Broadcast Applications
• Dimensions (L x Diam): 9.84 x 0.74" / 250 x 19 mm
• Weight: 5.82 oz / 175 g

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My guest is Bobby Owsinski - Audio Engineer, Producer, Author, Coach, and host of Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast! Bobby has earned many engineering and producer credits on popular music, and he has authored 24 books on recording, music, the music business and social media. Check out lots of Bobby's credits and accomplishments below.

On this episode Bobby and I discussed tons, including:

• Shure SM7B
• 1073 clone from Golden A
• Used to use an 1176 clone (Warm Audio WA76)
• UAD Apollo Twin MKII
• 2013 iMac, about to upgrade
• Soundflower
• ATM50X Headphones (Has HD650’s but open back doesn’t work that well)
• Wireworld pro cables
• Monitors: Equator D8's (soon he will have Ampheon 218's, whic are not powered)
• Acoustic treatment - a lot of ASC Tubetraps, round cylinders, one in every corner, 18-20 total.
• Post processing:
  • Gentle gate, 15 db reduction
  • Compressor - Fabfilter C2
  • EQ curve in Fabfilter, one for Skype, one for phone
  • Waves F6 dynamic EQ for de-esser
  • Mog Audio EQ4, famous air band, gives it the air that’s missing
  • Reverby recording - de-reverb with RX6
  • Master buss - Fabfilter L2, has a LUFS meter
• He edits quite a lot, mostly for continuity and pacing, and mostly himself
• Audio fundamentals that new podcasters should know

And here are more (not nearly all) of Bobby's accomplishments:

• Mixed a #2 album on the Billboard Blues charts for Adrianna Marie and her Bluescutters.
• Authored several courses for Berklee College of Music.
• Author of 24 books that are now staples in audio recording, music and music business programs in colleges around the world, including the best selling “Mixing Engineer’s Handbook,” “The Recording Engineer’s Handbook,” and “Music 4.0: A Survival Guide For Making Music In The Internet Age" (all now in their 4th edition). He has also penned hundreds of audio-related articles for a variety of popular industry trade publications such as Surround Professional, EQ, Billboard, Film & Video, Hollywood Reporter, Pro Sound News, Mix, Grammy Magazine, Electronic Musician, Recording Engineer/ Producer and Music Executive Insider, among others.
• Music Production blog at https://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/
• Surround projects and DVD productions for a variety of legendary superstar acts including The Who, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Iron Maiden, The Ramones, and Chicago, and more.

Thanks for hanging out with us, Bobby!

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I spend most of this episode detailing what is included when attending the Podcast Engineering School program, specifically:

• Who should attend PES?
• Why attend PES?
• The audio background of your instructor (me)
• Mentorship aspect of the program
• LIVE classes, not pre-recorded
• All class topics
• Tons of teaching topics
• Contact me if you're interested in starting January 15th

Also, a few announcements:

1. Hang with us on the Podcaster's Lounge livestream every Wednesday 7-9 PM Eastern / 4-6 PM Pacific. Lounging, news and Q&A for podcasters, editors and FANS of podcasting! Watch on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook.
2. Jump on our email list - Monthly Resources for Podcasters and Producers
3. I'm looking for guests for this show. If you can recommend someone please send them HERE: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/guest
4. 2019 events:
   • Podfest Multimedia Expo (March 7-9, 2019 in Orlando)
   • I'll be heading up the “Ask The Expert” booth at NAB from April 8-11, 2019 in Las Vegas
   • Podcast Movement (August 13-16, 2019 in Orlando)

Testimonials of graduates:

“This course is one of very few that I’ve ever actually completed (of the many I have purchased online), and it’s hands-down been the best, and the most fun. I seriously looked forward to it every week. What makes it so different from all the other courses I’ve purchased over the years is the live, in-person element. It makes it so much more enjoyable, and I know for a fact I would never have made it through all this material if it were a self-paced, video course.”
~Adam C., Class 18D Alumni

“If you are serious about producing podcasts and would like to learn from a true leader in the field, Chris Curran’s Podcast Engineering School is a huge value. This is a lifetime of experience that will benchmark your knowledge among the best in podcast sound engineering. I am now highly aware of the process, production, and importance of professional sound for podcast listeners – and I know how to make it happen!”
~Jim C., Class 17A Alumni

“As a beginner in the world of audio, I really benefited from Chris’s Podcast Engineering School. Chris is a very good professor because he was very interactive with every single classmate and very patient with all the help he would give. After graduating I feel WAY more confident producing audio than I ever would have without this program. Overall, I highly recommend PES to anyone interested in learning the straight to the point no fluff version of professional audio engineering for podcast production.”
~Erika K., Class 17A Alumni

“The Podcast Engineering School is an absolutely stellar course. It’s amazingly thorough while remaining focused on providing you exactly what you need to become a professional podcast producer.”
~Bryan E., Class 17A Alumni

“Podcast Engineering School is a worthwhile and valuable investment for anyone who wants to produce a high quality podcast. Chris is very attentive and accessible for participants, and each class session went far beyond my expectations in terms of what I hoped to learn. Best of all, it’s all very practical, and I’m able to apply it immediately so I can “SOUND GREAT!”
~Barry G., Class 18B Alumni

“I learned tons about recording, mixing tracks, adding effects to create higher quality podcasts, and so much more. I’m already applying these skills big time. Chris is a great teacher who really knows what he’s talking about when it comes to sound engineering. Overall, I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their podcast production skills by leaps and bounds.”
~Ben L., 15 yrs old, Class 17A Alumni

“If you’re thinking of signing up for Podcast Engineering School, do yourself a favor and sign up now. Chris’s passion and deep knowledge of all things audio made this course both fun and highly informative. Having listened to every episode of The Podcast Engineering Show, I had high expectations when I started the course. The experience exceeded my expectations. I’m using a lot of what I learned to make the shows I work on Sound Great!”
~Ed S., Class 18D Alumni

Again, if you’d like some very special pricing for our January semester, contact me asap.

Thanks for hangin' with me!

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