Gimme Some Well-Written Critique
A good critique is an acquired taste. You have to deal with a lot of bad experiences that lead you to those good ones happen along the way. So what makes a good critique.
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6 Podcasting Lifehacks to Make Your Workflow Flow
With all the hats we wear as podcasters, it’s a wonder we get anything done. Whether you have one podcast, or several, the challenges can be overwhelming, so here are some tricks to make life easier around the studio, so you can get to what matters most. 1. Checklists Checklists are an essential part of …
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Ten Tips to Tame that Tripping Tongue: Vocal Exercises for Podcasters
Everybody stumbles from time to time. But if you find yourself stumbling more frequently, or if you’d just like a few more tricks to tighten those vocal chops, here’s ten tried-and-true tips to training that tongue tendon. Note: I know it’s a frenulum, but that doesn’t roll off the tongue… so to speak. TW: Alliteration …
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Backup Your Podcast Sessions in 3-2-1
How to Have a Backup for Your Podcast Recordings: At-a-Glance Podcast backups prevent hours of recovery or costly rerecording. Best Practice for backing up your recordings: the 3-2-1 method. That means 3 Copies, 2 Local, 1 Offsite. Tools to automate the process are available. Read on for the full guide… A few years back, I …
Clean Sound Starts With Clean Equipment
We have a lot of terms in sound for “clean” that pertain to the quality of the sound you are recording or editing: clean, muddy, wet, dry, dirty. With all these terms used so frequently, it seems ironic that in the process of recording and our laser-like focus on the edit, many sound technicians, myself …
Stop! What’s That Sound: Troubleshooting Audio Issues
Sound recording is a garbage in, garbage out process. That is, the sound quality of your final product can only be as good as the quality of the sound recordings that go into the project from the start. Too often, podcasters say, “we’ll fix it it in post,” for things that they could correct at …
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