022 - Checking Your Recording Before Publication

Two simple ways to review your show before publication by uploading your show to the cloud. First we look and the pro's and con's of on-line storage sites like Dropbox or Google Drive. Then we explore Soundcloud and a way of listening to your show. Or perhaps your experiments in podcasting before committing to a podcasting host. PRODUCTION NOTES I used a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone to record, edit and publish this episode. Recording location: My bedroom, standing very close to my curtains. My mic: I hand-head my Galaxy Note 4 on speaker mode (no headphones) I had a foam windshield covering the mic end of the phone. Recording app: Auphonic Edit for Android Recording format: WAV (16 bit mono) Sample rate: 48kHz Editing app: Auphonic Edit for Android. Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock. Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file