- Podcasting
How to mix your podcast for better audio quality
Get hold of the right tools and techniques to improve the sound of your recording podcasts and other spoken audio — we’ll show you how in this friendly audio production guide.
9 min read
- Vocals
- Podcasting
How to make your voice sound better
Making your voice sound better is mostly a good capture plus a simple chain: clean it up, EQ, compress, de-ess, then add a little polish. Here’s how to do each step — and the fast track if you’d rather let a tool handle it.
3 min read
- Podcasting
- Loops & samples
Podcast sound effects: the five types and how to use them
Stingers, transitions, ambience, foley and emphasis hits — what each type of podcast sound effect signals, how long it should be, where to place it, and what royalty-free actually means when you license one.
8 min read
- Audacity
- Podcasting
Audacity noise reduction: how to remove background noise
Remove hum, hiss and room noise in Audacity 4 — the three-step Noise reduction effect, what each slider does, denoiser plugins that run live on the track with no noise profile, the AI route that still needs Audacity 3, and the noises none of them can fix.
9 min read