The Podcast Engineering Show | Professional Podcast Production - Recording, Mixing, Editing, Mastering

I chat with Brad Hargis, cohost of The Cinema Guys podcast, about how he records and produces episodes with his two cohosts, Justin and the Cinemaiden. We discussed: Ferrite for on-location recording Microphones: ATR 2100 (Brad), Knox Gear KN-UM01 USB/XLR Mic (Cinemaiden), PylePro PDMIC58 (Justin) Mixer: Mackie ProFX8v2 Recorders: Main EVISTR L53, backup EVISTR L150 Edit with Audacity on a 15 inch MacBook Pro Auphonic iTunes to convert to a M4A file Recording: Mics connected via XLR to Mixer I record My mic (ATR 2100) on L channel and co-hosts(Knox and Pyle) on R channel. Record to WAV file on the L53 main recorder. After recording, copy audio files to computer and open in Audacity to 1. Use noise reduction, 2. Compress to level audio down, 3. Amplify to set audio to -1 dB, and 4. Use Nyquist Noise Gate on each channel. Edit all the audio adding music in post. Auphonic to set the final level to -15 LUFS. To finalize the file I import the .WAV into iTunes to convert to 96k Stereo M4A file adding artwork and m