We know most people don’t have a dedicated podcast studio in their houses, and using a professional one can be more than you can afford, especially in the early stages. Some quick tips on that: Record in a quiet space So try to make sure you and any other hosts and guests are aware of best practices when you record. All audio needs some mixing to be its best, but the cleaner your original is, the easier your job will be. Here’s their guide to podcast mixing.įirst things first: Koon and Dueñas both emphasize that the most important thing is the original audio file itself.

So we turned to the Christians - that’s Christian Dueñas, an editor and producer at Maximum Fun, as well as Christian Koons, a former producer at Song Exploder, to learn about their production processes as podcast audio engineers. Headphone and speaker technology improves constantly, which means your podcast audio quality needs to keep up. Plus, for every one of those semi-distracted listeners on AirPods, there will be someone with the newest set of Sony WH-1000XM5’s picking up on background noises and aggressive plosives. You don’t want yours to come off as something that doesn’t matter to you - and shouldn’t matter to anyone else.

That’s particularly important when there are so many shows out there competing for attention.

All raw audio can be improved substantially with some simple steps, which can give your podcast a much more professional sound. Luckily, there’s lots to do before you get to that point. You can learn all you want about the physics of decibels and ohms, but what sounds crisp to your ear might be a little tight for someone else, and a conversation that projects gloriously on high-quality speakers might have nuances that get lost in the noise surrounding a pair of earbuds. Learning how to mix podcast audio is equal parts an art and a science.

Audacity equalization for podcast