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