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5 Reasons Your PodcastTECHNICALLY Sucks…AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Evo TerraFunAnymore.com
5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
Evo TerraFunAnymore.com
December 2007November 2005 July 2008
5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
Evo TerraFunAnymore.com
5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#1. You don’t use The Levelator
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#1. You don’t use The Levelator
Voice #1 Voice #2
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#1. You don’t use The Levelator
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#1. You don’t use The Levelator
Arguments against:
• I want to mix effects in real-timeThen get better at mixing in real-time.
• But I lose my dynamic range!I drive a rag-top Jeep. Do you think I hear it?
• I can do a better job on my own manually.You have more time than I.
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Sample Rate:How “frequent” samples of sound are takento create the file.
~20 kHzx2 = ~40 kHz
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Adobe Flash Players:Native sample rate of 11.025 kHz.
48 kHz gives…unusual results.
22.050 kHz44.1 kHz
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Adobe Flash Player 10:Only allows a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz.
44.1 kHz…ALWAYS (for now).
Sample Rate:
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Bit Rate:Number of “bits” of data per second.
32 kbps = AM radio96 kbps = FM radio192 kbps = Digital radio320 kbps = CD quality
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Bit Rate:Number of “bits” of data per second.
128 kbps… for now.
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Channels:Mono vs. Stereo vs. Joint Stereo
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Channels:Mono vs. Stereo vs. Joint Stereo
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
Channels:Mono vs. Stereo vs. Joint Stereo
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
44.1 kHz | 128 kbps | Joint Stereo
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
44.1 kHz | 128 kbps | Joint Stereo
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#2. You are encoding incorrectly
44.1 kHz | 128 kbps | Joint Stereo
Arguments against:• I’m lazy.
I know.
• I forget.Write it down.
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
<TITLE> of Episode/Post
<TITLE> of Show
Podcast
Download Year
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
<TITLE> of Episode/Post
<TITLE> of Show
Podcast
Download Year
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
Name/Title: Name of THIS episodeArtist: Host of the show. Keep consistent.Album: Name of the SHOW.Genre: “Podcast”. Always.Year: Year of recording/releaseTrack Number: Sequential number
Grouping: Good if part of a “network”Comments: For “in the wild” files.Part of Compilation: Only if truly needed
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
Name/Title: Name of THIS episodeArtist: Host of the show. Keep consistent.Album: Name of the SHOW.Genre: “Podcast”. Always.Year: Year of recording/releaseTrack Number: Sequential number
Grouping: Good if part of a “network”Comments: For “in the wild” files.Part of Compilation: Only if truly needed
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly
Arguments against:• Blah, blah, blah.
I hear your lips moving…
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#4. You aren’t using headphones when you edit
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#4. You aren’t using headphones when you edit
1. Put your headphones on.2. Listen to something loud, as loud as you can stand it.3. Listen to your file. Do you have to adjust up the
volume?4. If you did, adjust volume to as loud as you can stand
your file.5. Now -- without adjusting your volume -- listen to the
loud track again.6. When your ears quit ringing/bleeding, normalize your
track’s volume.7. You’re welcome, from all of us with tinnitus thanks to
you & those like you.
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#4. You aren’t using headphones when you edit
Arguments against:• [redacted]
Don’t even try and justify this crap.
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#5. You don’t listen
– To your own show• Post-editing• Post-encoding• Subscribe & listen like a listener
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#5. You don’t listen
– To other shows like yours• Learn & grow• Understand audience’s expectation• Connect with your peers
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#5. You don’t listen
– To any other podcast• How do you know what to do?• How do you know what anyone wants?• Why the hell are you here?
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks#5. You don’t listen
Arguments against:• But it takes time.
Yes. Yes this does.• And I’m busy.
Aren’t we all.• And I’m just doing this for fun.
And that’s relevant how?
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
#1. You don’t use The Levelator#2. You are encoding incorrectly#3. You aren’t using ID3 tags properly#4. You aren’t using headphones when you edit#5. You don’t listen
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5 Reasons Your Podcast TECHNICALLY Sucks
#1. Use The Levelator#2. Encode correctly#3. Use ID3 tags properly#4. Use headphones when you edit#5. Listen
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5 Reasons Your PodcastTECHNICALLY Sucks