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What’s Surprising Podcasting Experts Right Now?
As much as us industry folks may “know” podcasting, we’ve learned to expect the unexpected. Recently, a story in Podnews sparked a bit of discussion amongst our team. The fact that Apple can tweak something at their end, which ends up costing another company over seven million dollars, is pretty mindblowing. When this story broke, […]
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Additional notes on microphones
In the previous post on microphones I kind of assumed that you would all sit in the safety of your home while recording your podcast. Funny, it didn’t really struck me until today that some of you might be recording in a lot of different places that are far from ideal. So here you go, […]
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The art of ducking
Ducking is an effect often used by DJs and in all kinds of broadcasting. It’s often achieved by the use of side-chain compression. Side-chaining is when you use the dynamic levels of one source to control the compression of your signal. It’s best described in example, for instance, it’s common to use this for the […]
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Growing Your Podcast With an Audience Survey
As Matthew has told me before, if you want to grow your audience, you need to know your audience. But your audience isn’t necessarily going to drop everything to write and tell you what they value most about your show. And, if your audience doesn’t like something about your podcast, it’s easier to switch to […]
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Interview Podcasts
The interview is a bit more complicated than your normal, personal, off the mill podcast especially if you will be conferencing over the internet or live even, face to face. First, study the set up and get down to planning a few setup’s trying to figure out what works best. For teleconferencing, you can record […]