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FetHead Gain Booster for SM7B

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I knew I needed a gain booster.
What’s a gain booster?
It’s a device that boosts your microphone gain with a clean signal, making it much louder at the source.

Small Podcast Studio & Sonarworks Reference 4

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Small rooms are notorious for bad acoustics. Sound waves (especially low frequencies) don’t have space to develop. They are bouncing around the walls; we get phase cancellations and that sort of thing.

Icon M+ Platform Control Surface for Podcast Production

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Are you looking for a control surface for your DAW but you are not sure which one to choose?
There are plenty to choose from; however, in this post, I wanted to talk about Icon M+ platform and Pro Tools.

New iMac 2020 for Podcast Production

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For the last five years, I worked on a 27inch late 2015 iMac system with 3TB Fusion drive and 32GB of RAM.
The system has served me very well, but it was time to update.

How to Record a Podcast Remotely And Get It Right The First Time

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Remote interviews are a fact of life for every podcaster, and in today’s era of social distancing, more so than ever.

iZotope RX8 & Podcast Production (First Impressions)

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For people who aren’t familiar with iZotope, then make a highly respectable, top of the shelf tools for producers and audio engineers—everything from mixing, mastering to of course audio restoration.

Updating My Podcasting System

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New system updates, new plugins, new software.
Updating your workstation always seems like a good idea, but how is it really?

My Current Recording Setup

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Most of my audio work is done at the post-production stage. I edit, mix, master, and even with scoring I solely use synths and virtual instruments.

My Current DAW Setup

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I’m always on the lookout for the improvement and I update my system as often as I can.
In my opinion, it’s important to shake it up every few months. Otherwise, there is no progress.

Scoring Podcasts – My Tools

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With podcasts, you don’t have that many tools behind your belt – it’s all about the sound so, in reality, you have three elements to play.
Dialogues, Sound Effects, Music.

Audio Restoration and Podcasting

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When something is poorly recorded – noisy, distorted, has a lot of hiss or background noise – you can clean it all up with audio restoration plugins.

Starting Your Home Studio

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Most of us musicians would love to have their home recording studio and luckily for us, as the technology advanced, it is now way easier and cheaper to make your home studio than it used to be.

Mixing on Headphones

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During my studies, one rule that was always passed onto us by the teachers was – never mix on the headphones!

Simple Audio Techniques for Podcasts

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Most of the creative projects have three stages: pre-production, production, post-production.
The same principle applies to podcasting.

Podcasting and Marketing

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Should I start a podcast?
The question that every marketer asks, at least in the present times.
Why is that?
Well, if you google future of podcasting it’s easy to see that everyone seems to be bullish on the medium.

Intro to Microphones

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In this article, I want to share with you an overview of a recording microphone.
Microphones or mics are the basic instruments of capturing sounds. You have one inside your laptop, your phone and your camera.
Even in a smart watch.

What is Sound Wave

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A sound wave is a disturbance of particles within a medium. A medium can be anything like air, water or steel. It is a mechanical wave and to better understand it, imagine a slinky. Now, a movement of a sound wave is kind of like a coil movement of a slinky. It either compresses or spreads apart.

Sound Recording Basics

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Sound recording is an art of capturing the sound.
We perceive vibrations in the air as different sounds. We record these sounds with various equipment so we can play it back as many times as we want.

Frequency of Sound

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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about the waves?
How it travels?
What are the lowest pressure level humans can hear?

What is Mixing?

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Sound mixing is an art of combining many sounds into one.
There is a simple metaphor to describe mixing that may explain it better.

Sound Advice On Mix Stems

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Final mixes and elements are called deliverables. In the past people worked with physical film or tapes, today we have digital files.

Sound Advice On Mix Formats

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When we think about the sound, we tend to see it as music in your headphones and movies on your laptop. Maybe a surround sound set up at home if you are a grown up.
It’s only when you start to dig more into the world of sound engineering you will discover there is a lot more to standard format and mixes.