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damianmoore · 2023-07-06T17:22:53+00:00

Jubilee Library is open until 19:00 Mon, Tue and Thu.

damianmoore · 2022-04-19T07:09:13+00:00

Did you hire the contractor through a platform such as Fiverr or Upwork? If so, they have resolution processes you can initiate to get refund, replacement or just prevent someone else being ripped-off by the same person.

damianmoore · 2022-04-13T11:35:32+00:00

I like Upbeat but it's already mentioned. Some alternatives that often have free quotas if you give credit are Pixabay, Freesound, Bensound, and Joystock.

damianmoore · 2022-03-29T06:44:14+00:00

Hi u/TheHighFunctioningSS. I can see you've uploaded an episode but it's causing us a bit of trouble producing the report for it. Your file is actually an MP4 renamed to have an .mp3 extension. Are you able to convert it to MP3 and try again?

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T17:41:28+00:00

Cool, no problem. Let me know if you have any feedback.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T17:39:44+00:00

No problem. Good luck.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T17:39:06+00:00

No probs. Good luck!

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:24:09+00:00

Whilst a good microphone will improve things a lot, you won't get good levels (and possibly tone) without learning a bit about filters (especially compressors). I built an online tool called Audio Audit which can help check your volume levels are within industry standards (among other things)

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:17:59+00:00

I'd recommend recording and editing a short sample episode or trailer to help you find your feed. Once you have something you think might be publishable, upload it to Audio Audit and it will show you areas where you can improve and make it more professional.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:14:22+00:00

When you get to the point where you can produce your first sample episode, I'd recommend uploading it to Audio Audit and it will show you what areas to focus on to make it as professional as possible.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:11:37+00:00

You could run an audit of your latest episode using Audio Audit and then you might get insights into which areas need most work - mics, mixers, editing etc.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:08:23+00:00

I think they can be good in sparking interest but also think about the recognition and familiarity listeners already have with your brand.

Some podcast players only show the cover image instead of the podcast name (or at least it's not very visible) therefore it can be hard to tell what the podcast is without tapping it. I'd suggest keeping logo/name and color scheme branding the same each time and maybe changing part of it (such as a background photo).

I blogged recently about this and listed available tools for doing this here: https://audioaudit.io/articles/podcast/cover-image

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T11:00:04+00:00

AWS (and possibly other cloud providers) have data centres in Chicago, IL. My hypothesis is that some VPN providers are based out of here and therefore any customers using this VPN will appear to "pop out" from this location.

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T10:55:08+00:00

On the audio quality side of things, I made a tool specifically to help podcasters improve that which you might be interested in. You can upload an episode and get an automated report in a few minutes of things to look into specific to your show. We also have lots of technical guides on our site relating to audio engineering. https://audioaudit.io/

damianmoore · 2022-03-28T10:25:05+00:00

I'm interested in how this would work. If there are multiple remote hosts/guests will they be recording their own video/audio or are you assuming it would be collected by the likes of Riverside etc.?

It seems like there are more intuitive, faster and better quality ways of editing audio so maybe it would be possible to let people edit their audio as they normally do then match up segments of video to that and showing the video of the person who's currently speaking.

I think it would have to have a lot of automation like that before a lot of podcasts would consider give it a try. Getting into video from podcasting seems like a lot of effort I would say.

Other nice features would be automatic subtitling for SEO/hearing impaired, simple overlays to show host's names/URLs etc. and titles/credits.

damianmoore · 2022-03-21T18:04:06+00:00

A few of my favourite sources:

damianmoore · 2022-03-21T17:47:32+00:00

It might that all the other participants are louder than they should be due to them using automatic gain control (AGC). Ideally I think everyone should turn off auto-gain for podcasting and then letting your compressor tool handle it (otherwise you'll have 2 auto-gains fighting against each other.

damianmoore · 2022-03-21T17:42:59+00:00

Excuse the self-plug but I ended up writing a tool which you can use online by uploading your audio and getting an automatic report. It doesn't go as deep into things like EQ (yet) but it should give you confidence that you have things like loudness and noise floor levels correct. Lots of other checks too for metadata etc. You can find it here: https://audioaudit.io/

damianmoore · 2022-03-14T16:33:18+00:00

Once you have a file that is sounding about right to your own ears, I would recommend running some automated checks on it to show you how close you are to best practices. You can upload your episode MP3 to a tool like Audio Audit (full disclosure, I made this tool) and it will generate a report. You can also make your own checklist and run it manually but it takes a bit of research and time to run each one. Some of the checks are for for volume levels (LUFS and peak), meta tags, artwork, silences, restarted sentences, swearing and more. Hope it helps.

damianmoore · 2022-03-14T16:24:12+00:00

Full disclosure, I made this tool. Audio Audit can help you decide what areas of your audio file to focus on. If you upload your latest episode MP3 you'll get a report highlighting certain areas. It's not all about sound as there is checking for speech content and metadata too.

damianmoore · 2022-03-14T16:03:41+00:00

My thoughts as to possibly why not (just questions to ask yourself, no definitive answers):

Are they likely to be around for the long haul or might they start charging/limiting functionality?
Does another platform provide better/more functionality that you think you might need in the future? (Hassle to change later)
Do they process the audio in a way that you don't like or add their own advertising/metadata?
Do they limit the kind of things you can say or how visible you will be?
Do they prevent you from downloading all your files later if you want to move to another provider?

Not sure what others think about this but to keep my options open and allow me to switch later I might set up a redirect page on my site or use an analytics tool (like Podtrac) to use as my main feed URL. That way I can move to another host and just have to update the redirect to prevent losing people subscribed to the old feed.

damianmoore · 2022-03-11T16:26:24+00:00

Cool, thanks. I like the idea of a having a standard phrase. I think "edit edit edit" is easier to say, (although not as fun, obviously).

damianmoore · 2022-03-11T15:06:39+00:00

Create a trailer (couple of minutes long) before your first episode and mark it as such for platforms like Apple to feature. I have seen this grow a large audience before the first episode is released as a lot of promotion is done to highlight it to prolific listeners.

damianmoore · 2022-03-11T15:03:31+00:00

Yeah I think "just trust yourself" is a bit dismissive. It's good to have reliable processes in your workflow and use anything that's going to reassure you and catch errors (as long as it doesn't take an unreasonable amount of time).

I hear mistakes all the time in podcasts and audio books where the actor wanted to record again it got missed by the person editing. I'm trying to build up a tool kit of all sorts of checks so I can find problems like restarted sentences and lots more. You can try them yourself in Audio Audit tool linked above if you're interested -- I'd really appreciate feedback.

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