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PES 135: Evo Terra Jun 20, 2019

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Enjoy my awesome conversation with Evo Terra, host of Podcast Pontifications, and podcast strategist who has been podcasting since Oct. 14, 2004! He's the 40th podcaster EVER!!! And he's also the head honcho at Simpler Media Productions.

We discussed TONS including:

The real history of the beginnings of podcasting!
Shure SM7b
Fethead
Zoom H6
Mac Mini 2018
Hindenburg Journalist Pro
iZotope RX 6
Waves Sibilance plugin
Dealing with sibilance with EQ
On location recording with lavaliers (SM93's), Zoom H4, H6, and SM58's
Visiting France, Copenhagen, Belgium, England, Italy, Bangkok, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia

Thanks for sharing so much, Evo!

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PES 134: Chris's Goody Bag Jun 13, 2019

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (from April 12 through April 24). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

A few announcements:

Join our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 7-9 PM Eastern / 4-6 PM Pacific via YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook!
The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
Upcoming episodes: Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, Travis Vengroff, Zach Moreno, Barry Gary, and Scott Somerville!

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

PES 133: Nick Dunkerley from Hindenburg Jun 06, 2019

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My guest is Nick Dunkerley, Creative Director at Hindenburg! They make the very popular podcasting DAW software Hindenburg Journalist Pro.

We discussed LOTS including:

Lots of specifications of Hindenburg
Nick's personal equipment: RE20 microphone and Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
Nick's experience building a radio station in Africa
His engineering team at Hindenburg
Automated EQ profiles
Clipboard
Comparison of the Pro version vs the regular version
Differences in the podcasting industry and events in Europe vs. USA
See some screenshots of Hindenburg here

Thanks for being a great guest, Nick!

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PES 132: Podcast Movement 2019 Technical Track Speakers Preview May 30, 2019

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Listen to me talk with each and every 2019 Podcast Movement Technical Track speaker about their presentations, except, unfortunately, for the Hall of Fame podcaster Dave Jackson. Podcast Movement will be held in Orlando, Florida from August 13-16, 2019. Find all the info at https://podcastmovement.com/.

Here are the speakers and what each will be speaking about:

"Skype Alternatives" presented by Jody Maberry

"5 Steps to Building a Sought-After Podcast Production Company" presented by a panel including:

"Painting Stories with Sound - Podcast Editing for Beginners" presented by Nick Dunkerley from Hindenburg.

"Podcasting Systems: The 3 Key Automated Systems Podcast Hosts and Guests Need to Have in Place to Scale" presented by Yann Ilunga.

"The Most Common Audio Problems in Podcasts and How to Fix Them" presented by Marcus dePaula.

"People Breathe: The Art of Editing an Interview" presented by Carrie Caulfield Arick.

"Help Us Help You: Tech Support Tips for Podcasters" presented by a panel including:

Mackenzie Bennett (Blubrry)
Dave Jackson (Libsyn)
Mike Dell (Blubrry)
Shannon Martin (Podbean)

"Post Production: Effective Tips & Techniques for a Seamless Edit" presented by Sarah Wendel.

"Great Quality, Low Cost + ROI" presented by Alexis Parris.

"Advanced Audio Production: Waaay Beyond Just Removing Umms, Etc." presented by Chris Curran, founder and lead instructor of Podcast Engineering School.

And special thanks to Ralph M. Rivera of Podcaster's Toolbox for the audio introductions in this episode.

Few announcements:

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Note: The music I play as the outro at the very end of this episode was played and recorded by me about 25 years ago ;)
Have fun exploring previous episodes of this show the Podcast Engineering Show.
If you ever need help with your technical production, please reach out to me.

I appreciate you listening, and rock on!

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PES 131: Shawn Kitchen May 23, 2019

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My guest is Shawn Kitchen - host of the Northwest Corner Podcast. He lives in Spartanburg, SC, was formerly trained in radio and tv, and is currently records his show using a Live format to reduce post-production time.

We discussed his production workflow and equipment in detail, including:

Using a Kindle tablet to play sound FX
Riding faders Live
Mixer has one knob compression on each channel
Mic technique
Using subgroups: Voices to one group, music to another group, then record each group separately on his Zoom H6
Chris's Compression Dynamics plugin within Audacity
Noise reduction in Audacity by creating and using a custom noise profile (he removes 14 or 15 dB of noise!)
Record everything 24 bit / 44.1 kHz
Soundcloud
Behringer X2222USB analog mixer
Behringer UMC404HD interface
Tascam DR-40 field recorder
Zoom H6 field recorder
Behringer XM8500 dynamic mics
MXL FR-355K lavalier mics
Audacity
Hindenburg
Soundpad app for Android on Kindle Fire 8HD tablet
iRig 2 instrument interface
Behringer headphone distribution amp and headphones (for up to 8 people)
All post-production done in-house on Dell desktop with Core I5 processor using primarily Audacity, but have been using Hindenburg more frequently in recent time. Pre-recorded music tracks (except show theme) are separated into new tracks. All vocals are run through a combination of soft limiter, compression, and then amplification to -1.0 dB. Noise reduction is done at the *end* of all other processing, using a 5-second segment of silence with all mics open at the beginning of each recording session. I've found that applying noise reduction at the end yields us with the clearest results.

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PES 130: Chris's Goody Bag and Two Clips May 16, 2019

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (from March 29 - April 10). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

Also hear:

A clip of me calling Bob Bergey on the phone and him recording us both on his RØDECaster Pro.
A clip of Addy Saucedo, author of The Podcast Planner, starting to interview me in the NAB podcast studio for her Modern Vintage Radio podcast. She decided not to use this interview because of audio quality issues. Hear for yourself.

A few announcements:

The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
Upcoming episodes: Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley, Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, Travis Vengroff, Zach Moreno and Barry Gary!
Hang out on our Podcaster's Lounge livestreams every Wednesday 7-9 PM Eastern / 4-6 PM Pacific!

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

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PES 129: Glenn the Geek, from Horse Radio Network and Finding Florida May 09, 2019

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My guest is Glenn the Geek - founder of the Horse Radio Network (founded July 2008), cohost of Horses in the Morning, cohost of Finding Florida, and cofounder of the Florida Podcast Network.

Every morning he livestreams Horses in the Morning like this:

Audio only livestream via Blogtalk originally, now via Mixlr.
Has a 5 computer setup.
Call-in Studio to take live phone calls via Skype.
The master Live feed is sent out through Mixlr, which streams through their own app, as well as players embedded on their website.
Producer sets up guests off-air.
Hosts and producer chat privately using Skype.
The final audio podcast is published within 30 minutes after finishing the Livestream.
Uses a 12 year old Belkin mixer (still, after trying a few newer mixers).
Uses ATR2100's or the Behringer XM1800's.
All PC's, no Mac's.
Uses Total Recorder to record Skype.
Uses Mixcraft to edit.
Uses Auphonic to run all episodes through, to tag and send to destinations.
Plays sound clips via iTunes.

For the on-location recording of Finding Florida:

Go to a place and do ten activities in 3-4 days and record everything.
For interviews, they record with a Tascam DR-05 and two XM1800 microphones.
They also record on their phones (as a backup while recording with the DR-05) using the Hi-Q app on Android to record and immediately upload to Dropbox.
There exists audio of Glenn breaking his ribs in the Daytona beach episode of Finding Florida!
Post-production of episodes using Mixcraft to add music, transitions, etc.

Other hosts on the Horse Radio Network:

All connect with and record guests using Skype.
Use Google Sites for production notes.
Are all hosts streaming Live? No.

*I asked Glenn if he ever recorded audio of any of his horses. He said YES - and he played some clips in this episode!

Thanks for being a great guest, Glenn!

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PES 128: James Cridland of Podnews, LUFS, Bitrates May 02, 2019

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Enjoy my chat with James Cridland. He's the editor of Podnews which is a daily email and podcast that delivers tons of significant news and info.

Listen to the daily audio version here.

We also discuss LUFS and Bitrates. Here are a couple of James' articles that we reference:

The correct LUFS level: https://podnews.net/article/lufs-lkfs-for-podcasters
The right bitrate to use: https://podnews.net/article/podcast-analysis

We also covered:

RØDE Podcaster (USB microphone) - V2 has a quieter output, and a level LED that turns orange and red for peaking, etc.
Auphonic Edit app to record on the road
Hindenburg to record and edit. Some compression, EQ, etc.
James publishes two versions of the Podnews daily podcast: An 80 kbps AAC+ at -16 LUFS for his regular feed, and a 320 kbps stereo MP3 at -14 LUFS for Alexa and Spotify. Note: Alexa and Spotify both cache your audio but don't change the LUFS level.
Self hosts with Amazon S3, and using Amazon Athena for some stats
Macbook Pro

Thanks for sharing so much, James!

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PES 127: Carrie Caulfield Arick Apr 25, 2019

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Enjoy my chat with Carrie Caulfield Arick - podcast editor, host of Just Podcasting, and owner of Ya Ya Podcasting.

We discussed tons, including:

Adobe Audition: Essential Sound, Spectral Heal as needed, sometimes a De-esser, light compression, speech volume leveler (careful setting), dynamics processing, Match Loudness
RX7 Advanced: De-plosive, EQ, Normalize, De-Ess, Mouth De-click, Voice De-noise
ATR-2100
Samson Q2U
Squadcast
iZotope Nectar and Nectar 3
Adding a tiny bit of reverb
Export as .WAV (32 bit float for Audition)
Dell Inspiron 8th gen, i7 quad-core, 16GB RAM, 2-in-1 hybrid drives
iBuyPower i7 7th gen processor, 16GB RAM, hybrid drives
On location: Zoom H4N, Tascam DR-40, two ATR-2100's

Thanks for sharing so much, Carrie!

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PES 126: NAB 2019 Recap and Chris's Goody Bag Apr 18, 2019

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Enjoy my brief overview of recent Daily Goody's (March 15-27). Here's the link to view all those blog posts. And don't forget that you can sign up to receive the Daily Goody in your email every day or once per week. Sign up here.

I also recapped my experience at NAB last week -- details.

First I made a few announcements:

Enter to win a win a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 here!: https://focusrite.com/Focusrite-Podcast-Engineering-School-Giveaway
The next semester of PES starts June 25, 2019.
Upcoming episodes: Carrie Caulfield, 'Glenn the Geek' Hebert, Shawn Kitchen, Nick Dunkerley, Evo Terra, Dan Radin, Adam Gordon Bell, and Travis Vengroff!
Podnews - a daily briefing in your inbox every weekday about podcasting and on-demand.

My NAB Recap

My awesome booth mates at the Ask The Expert booth in the Podcast Pavilion area!:

Addy Saucedo - The Podcast Planner. She also interviewed me for her Modern Vintage Radio podcast.
Ralph and Carol Lynn Rivera - Podcaster's Toolbox.

Interesting: The podcast studio across the aisle. Condenser mics with no pop filters. Hmm.

I met Brandon Gonzales in person! (my guest on episode 84)

Dan Hughley from Focusrite interviewed me in their booth for their upcoming podcast.

SSL - I met Fernando who lives in Denver. He let me mix for a bit on a Live console. I also saw the new SiX in person!

Waves - I dropped by their booth.

Dan Dugan Sound Design (my guest on episode 101) - dropped by his booth and thanked him in person for being my guest.

Joel from Sound Devices.

Michelle from Heil.

Mark Bakos from Cleanfeed.

Ira from Samson.

Greg Laney from Apogee.

Gina Clement from Gator. We discussed the Gator Frameworks GFW-MIC-0822 Telescoping Boom Mic Stand.

Arielle Nissenblatt from EarBuds Podcast Collective.

Ever Gonzalez in person! He's the founder of The Outlier Podcast Festival, a traveling national event held in major cities across the U.S. *In Denver July 12-13!

Zachary Davis from Sound Education, a conference for educational audio producers and listeners. October 10-12, 2019 at Harvard University.

Audionamix, regarding the IDC: Instant Dialogue Cleaner plugin.

Philipp Sonnleitner, CEO of Mikme!

Soren Pederson, Sr. Product Specialist (Wired Microphone) at Shure.

Sarah Logan Gregory - Host of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Podcast.

Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope!

Rodger Cloud - He gave me a Cloudlifter!

James Cridland from Podnews!

Didn't get to meet: Durin Gleaves from Adobe, and the RODE rep at the B&H booth.

REMINDER: Enter to win a win a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 HERE!

I appreciate you listening, and if you have any questions please let me know :)

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