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The Podcaster's Podcast

by Riley Byrne

From the team over at Podigy.co comes The Podcaster's Podcast, a show that takes a closer look at the ins and outs of creating great podcasts. Join Riley weekly as he breaks down the more complicated elements of recording, producing and getting the word out on great podcasts. From EQ to compressors, bitrates to downloads, The Podcaster's Podcast will help you take your podcast next level, 10 minutes at a time.

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Episodes

  1. What's in a Microphone?

    Today: The ins and outs of microphones, and why to think twice if you're first thought is the Blue Yeti. To get the low down how to get your podcast sounding great, check out our Guide section And if you're new to podcasting, be sure to check out our Complete Guide to Podcast Editing Or if you…

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  2. Breaking Up With Audacity

    Audacity is bad for you. You've known that for a while, right? You keep promising yourself you'll leaven and find a real DAW, someone who will treat your audio right. But you just haven't yet. We're here to help you make the leap. To get the low down how to get your podcast sounding great, check...

  3. Boutique Plugins and Podcasters Don’t Mix

    It's that time of the year when plugins go on sale for ridiculous prices. And you'll probably see a lot of plugins promising analog warmth in your digital recordings. Those are great plugins for the most part, but also they are probably not what you're looking for. Today we dive into the messy...

  4. Gain Staging: The Powerful Tool You Didn’t Know You Were Using

    Gain staging is something every podcaster, knowingly or otherwise, does for each track in each episode of their podcast. Knowing what it is and how to use it can make gain staging a powerful tool to work around problems common to podcasting like high noise floors. Find out more in this episode!…

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  5. Why Bad Audio Makes Great Podcasts

    Bad audio makes for great podcasts. More specifically, big podcasts like Stuff You Should Know use low bitrates for a reason: they are trying to maximize the amount of listeners they can get by making their product as small to download as possible. Does their podcast sound worse by doing so?...

  6. Gates - When to use them and why to never use them

    Gates are very simple in concept, but very tough to get right, especially with podcast audio tracks that typically have a lot more than just the speaker's voice going on. Learn all about them, listen to Riley stumble through a mathematics lesson, and find out the best way to use a gate if you...

  7. How To Render Your Podcast, Explained

    There are a lot of things to get right when deciding ont he best way to render your podcast. We break down why mono is better than joint stereo, why CBR files are an unfortunate necessity and the myth that you can't use AAC files. To get the low down how to get your podcast sounding great, check...

  8. Bit Depth, Sample Rate and Buffer Size, Everything You Need To Know Before Recording

    This is a bit of an addendum to our Podcast Recording Guide, delving deeper into a few terms that we noticed podcasters seemed a little shaky on. However, the great thing is for all of these, you only have to set them once and then forget about them! To get the low down how to get your podcast...

  9. Mix Buss Mega Episode

    This is it! Our mega episode for all of our per-track effects. EQ, Compression, De-Essers, and Multiband Compressors. No filler, just explinations and tips for getting your podcast sounding great quickly! To get the low down how to get your podcast sounding great, check out our Guide section And…

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  10. Master FX for Podcasts

    Today we're talking the do's and do not's of master effects chains for podcasts. The biggest "do not" is: don't over do it. If you're spending a lot of time on the mastering chain trying to get your levels right, you'd be better off going back through your tracks and adjusting them individually…

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  11. Multiband Compression For Podcasts

    Following up on our article about de-essers, today we look at multiband compressors. Both are frequency-specific (a la EQ), compressors, but whereas de-essers only reduce sibilance, multiband compressors can be used on any part of the spectrum. For podcasters there is one great and simple way to...

  12. De-essers for Podcasts

    A de-esser is a podcaster’s best friend. It reduces the sibilance (words with “sss” or “shh” sounds, like ship, chip, sip, zip, or jump) of phrases so that they don’t jump out in listeners’ ears. It is literally a de “sss”er. Once you start listening for sibilance, you’ll never be able to unhear...

  13. Compression for Podcasts

    Compressors are perhaps the most misunderstood and misused of all the tools podcasters have at their disposal to edit podcasts. They’ve been on every single episode of a big name podcast that you’ve listened to, yet you are probably a little shaky on what they’re doing, and when to use them.…

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  14. EQ For Podcasts

    In this, the inaugural episode of The Podcaster’s Podcast, Riley Byrne from Podigy.co takes you through how to effectively use EQ in your podcast. Anytime you start editing a podcast, an EQ will be the first thing we start using, and probably the last thing we’ll adjust. It’s our swiss army knife...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

From the team over at Podigy.co comes The Podcaster's Podcast, a show that takes a closer look at the ins and outs of creating great podcasts. Join Riley weekly as he breaks down the more complicated elements of recording, producing and getting the word out on great podcasts. From EQ to compressors, bitrates to downloads, The Podcaster's Podcast will help you take your podcast next level, 10 minutes at a time.

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Riley Byrne

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From the team over at Podigy.co comes The Podcaster's Podcast, a show that takes a closer look at the ins and outs of creating great podcasts. Join Riley weekly as he breaks down the more complicated elements of recording, producing and getting the word out on great podcasts. From EQ to...

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