The below article provides help to Pod Paste clients with their home recordings during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
If you’ve somehow stumbled here from the powers of internet search, Welcome! Hopefully, we can help you podcast better, during these interesting and testing times.
This information is also available as an infographic image, video, and podcast. Feel free to consume it however you would like.
Click above to listen to the podcast version
Click To View “How to create great content from your living room”Presentation Deck
Imagine this: You’ve just received an email from your favourite podcast. They are promoting their new episode with a guest that you love. It’s a deep dive into the guest’s life, ethos and how they built their business. [Insert excited emoji]
You are so excited that you immediately open up your go-to podcast player and dive into the episode. It buffers for ten seconds. You wait patiently. It starts playing and you hastily pop your headphones on to commence a lean-in listening session.
The interview segment starts, but you are confused. You ask yourself these rapid-fire questions in a foggy haze of disbelief:
- Why is there so much echo (sound-wave reflection)?
- Is that a jackhammer in the background?
- What kind of buzz is that; a fridge or an air-con unit?
You wait and think it will get better. But at the five-minute mark, you can’t understand half the words that the guest is saying and you give up. [Insert dejected emoji]
We’ve all been there. It is the sub-standard audio quality zone. Do-do-do-do. [Cue twilight zone music] It’s a thing, and it seems like it’s invading a lot of podcasts from novice to experts.
Continue reading “Make Home Audio Recordings Sound Better”