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TPS087: EQ for Podcasts with Rob Williams

September 29, 2014 by Ray Ortega 14 Comments

Ever wanted to learn how to use the post processing effect EQ? This is two hours of pure EQ talk for your podcast with professional audio engineer Rob Williams. While you still need to get your hands dirty and mess with the settings to truly learn EQ, this episode will help remove the first barrier to becoming great at using EQ…knowledge.

The best part of this interview (to me) is the focus on dialog and the human voice. You can find many tutorials for using an EQ to post process your audio but as podcasters we have specific needs. Rob and I dive specifically into what those needs are and how to use an EQ for podcasting (spoken word).

TPS Ep. 059 – Part Two – Audio Post Production for Podcasters with Joe Gilder

June 3, 2012 by Ray Ortega 2 Comments

We’re back in the Studio with Joe Gilder, audio engineer and podcaster, for part two in our discussion about audio post production for podcasters.

On this episode (part 2 of 2) Joe and I open up the audio editor and take a look at the effects we use when post processing our audio for podcasting. Specifically we take a look at: [Read more…] about TPS Ep. 059 – Part Two – Audio Post Production for Podcasters with Joe Gilder

TPS Ep. 058 – Audio Post Production with Joe Gilder (part 1)

May 23, 2012 by Ray Ortega 2 Comments

There’s lots of training online for audio post production. However, most of the information is focused on mastering audio for music. As podcaster’s our main post production concerns involve techniques related to mastering for voice only. Joe Gilder is an audio engineer who masters music for a living however he’s also a podcaster. So I brought Joe inside The Podcasters’ Studio to talk about post processing as it applies to podcasting.

Joe runs a great site over at Home Studio Corner where he posts video tutorials and articles demonstrating many of the same effects that we use in podcast post produciton such as compression and EQ.

On this episode (part 1 of 2) Joe and I focus mostly on the things you need to do before you even open your audio editor of choice. Some of things we talk about are:

The subjective versus objective techniques for working with audio
Getting it right at the source – start with the best audio possible
How a cheap mixer might affect your sound
Obtaining a baseline sound you’d like to achieve by listening to your peers
Software (audio editors) and their importance

In part 2, Joe and I will dive deeper into the audio editor and talk a lot more about the actual effects that you’ll want to consider when post producing your audio.

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