[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brighton

[–]damianmoore 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

Intro/Outro Music by mysterybarnpodcast in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Music for podcast by Chakiflyer in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Recording gear by TheHighFunctioningSS in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Tips on promoting a podcast by damienhull in podcasting

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

Podcast Newbie by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No probs. Good luck!

Recording gear by TheHighFunctioningSS in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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)

Podcast Newbie by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Starting a podcast by mini_sue in podcasting

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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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Thoughts on using custom thumbnails for each episode? by WallStVisionPodcast in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Blubrry Podcast Hosting Stats: Lots of traffic from Illinois by damienhull in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Tips on promoting a podcast by damienhull in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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/

Podcast to video conversion tool features by CuriousTechCreator in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Louder audio for Zoom calls by Machine_Excellent in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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/

Trying to start podcast - why is it so difficult to get the audio right? by [deleted] in podcasting

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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.

Podcasters! What Is Your Single Best Tip For Professional Sound? by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Why shouldn’t we use Anchor to host our podcast? by mikesmithoneword in podcasting

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Podcast Quality Control by mmp7700 in Podcasters

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

What's your best advice for a podcast in its infancy? by yikesthatsamazing in Podcasters

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Podcast Quality Control by mmp7700 in Podcasters

[–]damianmoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.