We're more than a few episodes in at this point, so I thought I could write a little about my process for creating a podcast episode. Different p...
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Thank you for this! Nice to see how other podcasters work :)
I've also published some days ago a tutorial on how we record and broadcast live our podcast (Podcast Science, on air since 2010), you can find it here. We have a pretty different setup since we record and broadcast live and our team is distributed, but you can probably find some useful stuff.
I remember when I first got talking to Jay Miller about podcasting - it was around the same time that he had me on his Productivity in Tech show. He told me about Audio Hijack, Loopback, and SoundFlower.
I really should look into these further. I'm also thinking of adding a hardware recorder to my current set up, because Audacity crashed during a save (shortly after recording) and wiped out two hours of content:
Interesting, I never had any crash with audio hijack. For the hardware recorder I've try to use Zoom R16 and Zoom H6 but I don't think it's possible to do hardware recording AND usb mic at the same time...
The crash was from Audacity, when saving to disk; then it crashed again when trying to recover. Which was a little annoying. But, I might be able to recover it all, because all of the au files (the audio tracks are split into small chunks when saving) are present but the Audacity Project file is broken.
That's probably the process that I'm going to use, I just need to decide on which of the two devices to use.
You might want to look into using REAPER or another DAW for recording. You can set things up so that when you click record and start talking, it will add things like a noise gate (removing background noise) and other effects automatically in real time.
The saved recording will have all of that applied. Then your editing process becomes removing human errors, not processing audio and this will drastically simplify and reduce the time it takes to edit.
You can even set things up so that you can redirect that real-time processed audio to another application as microphone input, so you can get high quality Skype calls, or anything else.
That's what I end up doing for my video courses. REAPER's audio gets sent directly to Camtasia. I do zero audio processing afterwards.
I've been wanting to investigate Reaper for some time now, but I've been put off by the sheer scale of what it can do. It looks so complex to use.
Would you recommend a specific set (or subset) of tutorials on it, or would you recommend just diving in and getting my hands dirty with it?
OMG Auphonic is fantastic! Used it this morning to clean up a couple of files, this is amazing and saved my tons of work out outsourceing cost. Thank you so much.
It really is wizardry. I wish that I knew how it does what it does, but I'm a little happy being ignorant... for now