Make Your Podcast Sound Good: Pre-Production
03/21/23 • 24 min
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Join Ash as he speaks to Dan, one of the senior producers at Progressive Media, all about what you need to do before production to get your podcast sounding the best it can be. Dan is the expert when it comes to producing podcasts and he gives some great tips and tricks to help you create the best recording and sound you can when recording your podcast.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Keep it basic, dynamic microphones work best for most people in most situations.
- Don’t just buy things you see other people using, complex setups that you don’t know how to use are expensive and not necessary.
- The money you can save on equipment is better placed on support services for your podcast, such as editing.
- Don’t record in your kitchen or bathroom, it will sound awful. Any room with lots of hard surfaces will cause echo, reverb and delay all around you.
- Knowing how to use the tech you buy is more important than what you spend.
- Smaller rooms are better for recording than large rooms, it prevents delay.
- The distance from your microphone makes a difference. With dynamic microphones, you need to be a bit closer to them.
- Production in podcasting matters, those who sound good, sound professional, get better results.
BEST MOMENTS
“A trap a lot of people fall into is they use what other people use on the internet”
“You don’t need to break the bank to get good quality audio”
“Don’t record anywhere with hard surfaces all round you”
“Smaller rooms are better than bigger rooms”
“Production quality overall is much more important now”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Podcast Production - The Cost of the Wrong Choice
How to Launch a Number 1 Podcast - Part 1
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Kane Baron, Ashley Morris & Thom Luter manage over 150 live podcasts Including Rob Moore, Kevin Clifton, Shaa Wasmand MBE & more.
Helping Entrepreneurs Launch, Scale & Monetise their podcast for over 6 years.
CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]
Try Riverside free now: https://creators.riverside.fm/PodcastersPodcast & Use code: Podcast15 for an exclusive 15% off.
Join Ash as he speaks to Dan, one of the senior producers at Progressive Media, all about what you need to do before production to get your podcast sounding the best it can be. Dan is the expert when it comes to producing podcasts and he gives some great tips and tricks to help you create the best recording and sound you can when recording your podcast.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Keep it basic, dynamic microphones work best for most people in most situations.
- Don’t just buy things you see other people using, complex setups that you don’t know how to use are expensive and not necessary.
- The money you can save on equipment is better placed on support services for your podcast, such as editing.
- Don’t record in your kitchen or bathroom, it will sound awful. Any room with lots of hard surfaces will cause echo, reverb and delay all around you.
- Knowing how to use the tech you buy is more important than what you spend.
- Smaller rooms are better for recording than large rooms, it prevents delay.
- The distance from your microphone makes a difference. With dynamic microphones, you need to be a bit closer to them.
- Production in podcasting matters, those who sound good, sound professional, get better results.
BEST MOMENTS
“A trap a lot of people fall into is they use what other people use on the internet”
“You don’t need to break the bank to get good quality audio”
“Don’t record anywhere with hard surfaces all round you”
“Smaller rooms are better than bigger rooms”
“Production quality overall is much more important now”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Podcast Production - The Cost of the Wrong Choice
How to Launch a Number 1 Podcast - Part 1
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Kane Baron, Ashley Morris & Thom Luter manage over 150 live podcasts Including Rob Moore, Kevin Clifton, Shaa Wasmand MBE & more.
Helping Entrepreneurs Launch, Scale & Monetise their podcast for over 6 years.
CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]
Previous Episode
How to Get the Best Guests & Leverage Them
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How can you attract and leverage the best guests for your podcast? Kane and Ash reveal the steps you can take to find and secure the best type of guests for your podcast that will bring you listenership and growth.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Step up your organisation skills.
- When first starting out, utilise your network and ask people to recommend guests.
- Who in your industry and niche do you know you want to interview? Put them into a search and see who is already connected with whom you can collaborate with.
- The personal approach to communication with guests is essential. A voice note works exceptionally well, people ignore them less and tend to listen straight away.
- Always ask for referrals, particularly on air to existing guests as ego ensures people give the best people they know!
- Ask people who are connected to someone you want to interview if they want to interview you on their show first. You can then leverage your interview with them when aiming upward.
- If you have a big name, leverage this and include their name in the title and show notes.
- Repurpose your podcast to create clips for your social media, creating shareable content.
- It’s not always the big names that bring you growth and notoriety, often it’s the best content that can come from surprising places (and guests!)
BEST MOMENTS
“You need to be really organised to get the best guests”
“In half an hours work, you’ve got 50-100 people”
“We are all creatures of ego”
“Approach them and say can we do an episode swap”
“Sometimes it’s not the best name, it’s the best content”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Podcast Production - The Cost of the Wrong Choice
How to Launch a Number 1 Podcast - Part 1
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Kane Baron, Ashley Morris & Thom Luter manage over 150 live podcasts Including Rob Moore, Kevin Clifton, Shaa Wasmand MBE & more.
Helping Entrepreneurs Launch, Scale & Monetise their podcast for over 6 years.
CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]
Next Episode
Make Your Podcast Sound Good: Post-Production
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A second in the series about what you can do, inside and outside of production, to get your podcast to sound the best it can! Dan, a senior audio producer at Progressive Media joins Ash again to give tips on what you can do after you stop recording to make your content sound great.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Listen back to your audio, what you have recorded, before sending them to be edited. Test recordings are useful so you can discover any issues straight away.
- If you make a mistake, ensure you pause after and recollect yourself to make editing it out seamless.
- Don’t worry about editing out uhms and ahs and ‘fillers’ of conversation so much, it’s unnecessary and can often make the flow of the audio sound unnatural.
- Small mistakes are fine, they make your content feel casual and more relatable to your audience.
- People don’t realise the importance of mixing and mastering your audio, it is often taken for granted.
- If your content doesn’t sound good audibly, then people assume that your content isn’t good either.
- Recording remotely isn’t always your first choice but one of the most important things you can do to give it the best chance of sounding good is for you and your guest to use headphones.
- Do not use your built in laptop microphone, even airpods inbuilt mics are better!
BEST MOMENTS
“That little uhm in there is not detrimental to the conversation”
“If you take that relatability out of it you sterilise it and run the risk of people being alienated from your content”
“It’s not just about the raw audio, it’s about how that audio is processed”
“No single podcast I have edited has gone out with no form of processing in terms of mixing and mastering in there”
“Be wary of the internet connection you are using”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Podcast Production - The Cost of the Wrong Choice
How to Launch a Number 1 Podcast - Part 1
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Kane Baron, Ashley Morris & Thom Luter manage over 150 live podcasts Including Rob Moore, Kevin Clifton, Shaa Wasmand MBE & more.
Helping Entrepreneurs Launch, Scale & Monetise their podcast for over 6 years.
CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]
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