Audio blips: remove stuitters, stammers and blips by either cutting or overwriting with silences in your editing software, as well as shortening long pauses – but not to short, it still needs to come over as natural. Corouse is also another filter that adds mutliple layers of your voice – think “HAL” in 2001 a Space Odyssey. Audio filters: Reverb is a good effect in the fact that it makes it sound more like a hall, a lot of DJs prefer a touch of reverb to give emotion to your voice. Note: Normalising a track will set it to a baseline point, effectively reducing loud tracks/clips and increasing quieter tracks/clips. Use The Levelator (software to soften high and lows) or Chris’s Dynamic Compressor. Audio Levels: If you bring in speech and music at the same audio level they will compete for attention, have the music dropped to a lower level from 0dB to -15dB. A compressor (hardware/software) will “silence” out low/unwanted noise. Eveything turned off, closed doors and maybe late/early so everyday living does not impact. Audio Noise: Preferably record with no ambient noise. More on this as I work through my own podcast. ID3 tags: the meta data that embeds details of an audio file within itself such as album (or podcast) the file might belong to, can be generated through a range of software, with audacity being one of them, iTunes is highly recomended as you can also attach your logo or image of your podcast. The following is just a brief collection of good practice or noteworthy information that really has been from notes I made as I went along. Use your judgment, if Levelator went overboard maybe you should just add a limiter and pull up the gain of your track to raise it’s volume without it clipping.In preparation for producing the first podcast for this blog I have been listening to a range of podcasts on podcasting. Turn up your volume when comparing what you put in with what you get out. Levelator WILL raise the volume of the track so that it is as loud as can be, so don’t let volume differences confuse you. There are times when it over does it’s job and with particularly noisy environments you may find that smaller background noises have been beefed up along with the speaker and sound is just a little too “bloated”. Pretty much, yeah, Levelator will automate the time consuming process of compression, normalization, limiting and volume envelope adjustments. Don’t look directly at the program, as it uses black magic. It's donation-ware, so if you find you like it, throw them some $$.ĭrag and drop your Wave or AIFF onto Levelator. Variations in sound that don’t appear drastic in real life often become amplified in recordings. Examples include the sound of doors slamming, very loud, quiet or dynamic speakers, distance from microphones, coughing into lapel microphones, and microphones being bumped. However, even with proper attention paid during the recording stage, there are certain factors you cannot control. You should always aim for the best sound during recording, as it is far easier and more effective to correct problems at this stage than in postproduction mixing. Properly microphone placement and selection, as well as real-time input level adjustments can lessen the extent to which the audio levels differ. In other cases, someone may hit the microphone, cough or slam a door, causing a sharp increase in audio levels. This can result in inconsistent audio levels (sometimes dramatic). Often times when recording multiple speakers you will find that some speak louder than others, have a deeper voice, or were standing closer to the microphone. Leveling Audio with Levelator (aka, performing Black Magic) Levelator Makes Your Voice Recordings Sound Great, for Free! from John Buckman on Vimeo. 
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I thought I would share one that I think ANYONE can use.
So I have been working on some audio tutorials for my fellow Media Mafia members, here at A&S Online Education.
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