The Podcast Engineering Show | Professional Podcast Production - Recording, Mixing, Editing, Mastering

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 distrib

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: A clip of me calling Bob Bergey on the phone and him recording us both on his RØDECaster Pro. 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 :) DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you

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

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 Macbo

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! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Pod

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 NAB Recap 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 ais

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 Podcaste

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

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! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email

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 :) DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Sta

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 .

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! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email

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. We discussed many aspects of MP3 vs. AAC (.m4a): 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

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

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 :) DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitche

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 m

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 :) And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the4 Daily Goody in your email every day or every week. Sign up here. DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email

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! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email

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 DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email

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! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening.