Great Audio Starts Here: Room Treatments, Microphone Placement, Microphone Type, and Microphone Technique

Post-production editing of our podcasts can be grueling. It can be an exhausting time-consuming part of our audio production if we're not intentional about the recording phase. There are things we can do before pressing record that will save valuable time in post-production. Getting a good initial audio recording is indispensable because it can literally save us hours of cleanup later on. Not everything can be fixed in post but doing everything we can to make sure our initial recording is as good as it can be, means fewer problems in post. And ensuring our recorded audio is as good as it can be, doesn't have to be expensive. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:29 Inexpensive Room Treatments
• 7:02 Microphone Placement
• 9:07 Microphone Type
• 11:13 Microphone Technique
• 13:58 Recap and Summary