Crazy volume differences are one of my pet peeves listening to podcasts. I like to listen to them while doing stuff around the home, with my desktop PC broadcasting to my bluetooth headphones. It works great until someone inserts an audio clip from somewhere, or there's a guest on, whose volume is so different from that of the main host -- either loud enough to burst my eardrums or so quiet I have to crank it and then quickly turn down again when the clip is over. Anyway, you say you're already using plugins and doing post-processing. Is that not working out for you? What are you doing to the audio exactly? Noramlising audio volume? For your speaking voice, a bit of compression might be nice, but I think eq is maybe the most important thing to apply -- in my opinion you want to bring out the higher frequencies of the human voice a bit, to make things like sibilances clear and well-defined but not so sharp that they're distorting (this shouldn't happen so much with a good microphone, anyway).
-----Original Message----- From: all-audio@groups.io <all-audio@groups.io> On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: February 15, 2021 06:43 PM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: [all-audio] podcasting, any tips? Hello, I'm dipping in to podcasting. I've made and submitted one, but think I could do better. The podcast is a demo which is recorded on my s10+ using amazing mp3 recorder, and demoing features of the phone so it's also talking. One thing I've noticed is sometimes the audio isn't right, it's either to loud or not loud enough, I've maximized volume. I am using goldwave6 with some added-vst-plugins for post-processing. The files are recorded as wav files then saved as 44.1Khz 64Kbps mp3 files. I thought about giving a compressor a go to make my voice crisper and the phone volume more even as well, but don't want to smash things to soundly. I'd appreciate any tips. Thanks. Dave. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3795): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/3795 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80667573/21656 Group Owner: all-audio+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
