Today: The ins and outs of microphones, and why to think twice if you're first thought is the Blue Yeti. To get the low down how to get your podcast sounding great, check out our Guide section And if you're new to podcasting, be sure to che

Breaking Up With Audacity

Dec 8th, 2017 11m 51s

Audacity is bad for you. You've known that for a while, right? You keep promising yourself you'll leaven and find a real DAW, someone who will treat your audio right. But you just haven't yet. We're here to help you make the leap. To get the

Boutique Plugins and Podcasters Don’t Mix

Nov 30th, 2017 10m 4s

It's that time of the year when plugins go on sale for ridiculous prices. And you'll probably see a lot of plugins promising analog warmth in your digital recordings. Those are great plugins for the most part, but also they are probably not wha

Gain Staging: The Powerful Tool You Didn’t Know You Were Using

Nov 16th, 2017 6m 32s

Gain staging is something every podcaster, knowingly or otherwise, does for each track in each episode of their podcast. Knowing what it is and how to use it can make gain staging a powerful tool to work around problems common to podcasting lik

Why Bad Audio Makes Great Podcasts

Nov 9th, 2017 5m

Bad audio makes for great podcasts. More specifically, big podcasts like Stuff You Should Know use low bitrates for a reason: they are trying to maximize the amount of listeners they can get by making their product as small to download as possi

Gates - When to use them and why to never use them

Nov 2nd, 2017 6m 9s

Gates are very simple in concept, but very tough to get right, especially with podcast audio tracks that typically have a lot more than just the speaker's voice going on. Learn all about them, listen to Riley stumble through a mathematics lesso

How To Render Your Podcast, Explained

Oct 24th, 2017 15m 36s

There are a lot of things to get right when deciding ont he best way to render your podcast. We break down why mono is better than joint stereo, why CBR files are an unfortunate necessity and the myth that you can't use AAC files.To get the l

Bit Depth, Sample Rate and Buffer Size, Everything You Need To Know Before Recording

Oct 20th, 2017 9m 11s

This is a bit of an addendum to our Podcast Recording Guide, delving deeper into a few terms that we noticed podcasters seemed a little shaky on. However, the great thing is for all of these, you only have to set them once and then forget about

Mix Buss Mega Episode

Oct 13th, 2017 30m

This is it! Our mega episode for all of our per-track effects. EQ, Compression, De-Essers, and Multiband Compressors. No filler, just explinations and tips for getting your podcast sounding great quickly!To get the low down how to get your po

Master FX for Podcasts

Sep 15th, 2017 7m 25s

Today we're talking the do's and do not's of master effects chains for podcasts. The biggest "do not" is: don't over do it. If you're spending a lot of time on the mastering chain trying to get your levels right, you'd be better off going back

Multiband Compression For Podcasts

Sep 14th, 2017 5m 45s

Following up on our article about de-essers, today we look at multiband compressors. Both are frequency-specific (a la EQ), compressors, but whereas de-essers only reduce sibilance, multiband compressors can be used on any part of the spectrum.

De-essers for Podcasts

Sep 8th, 2017 7m 28s

A de-esser is a podcaster’s best friend. It reduces the sibilance (words with “sss” or “shh” sounds, like ship, chip, sip, zip, or jump) of phrases so that they don’t jump out in listeners’ ears. It is literally a de “sss”er. Once you start li

Compression for Podcasts

Sep 7th, 2017 11m 10s

Compressors are perhaps the most misunderstood and misused of all the tools podcasters have at their disposal to edit podcasts.They’ve been on every single episode of a big name podcast that you’ve listened to, yet you are probably a little s

EQ For Podcasts

Sep 1st, 2017 8m 19s

In this, the inaugural episode of The Podcaster’s Podcast, Riley Byrne from Podigy.co takes you through how to effectively use EQ in your podcast. Anytime you start editing a podcast, an EQ will be the first thing we start using, and probably t

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