Audio processing for your podcast
Audio processing for your podcast is a grat issue of debate. Commercial radio stations always compete to be the loudest sound on the dial by cranking their audio processing up to the maximum.
Should the same rules apply if you’re a podcaster? This week I joined the Podcasters’ Roundtable for a live discussion about processing your podcast’s audio. Listen to a great mix of guests with varied opinions on the subject of compression, gating and EQing a podcast. You can watch the Google Hangout or subscribe and listen to the audio here.
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At Associated Broadcast Consultants we’d say yes providing you are not targetting classical or hifi purists as listeners. Main reasons for:
1/ Your listeners are used to listening to compressed audio on the radio, or modern music tracks which are often highly compressed
2/ It is likely that they will be listening in a non-ideal audio environment with background noise. Audio processing will help keep your broadcast listen-able above the background noise level
3/ Do you or your presenters control your audio levels perfectly? If not, the audio processing will help level things out and stop unexpected steps in volume level.
You can read a bit more about it on our website here:
http://www.a-bc.co.uk/audio-processing.html
Plug over!
Thank you for the well considered tips.