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Podcast Episode 3 – Sep 2011 -
Should You Use Compression In Audio Recording?
Show Notes
In this podcast, Ken talks about the age-old question of compression in audio recording. After explaining what compression really is and how it can be used…you can answer your own question. Do you want to even out the loudness of your audio? Then compression can help you. Do you want to raise the overall loudness of your audio without distorting? Compression can help you. Do you want to add some punch and ‘in-your-faceness” to a voice over? Compression can help. Just make sure you remember that it is really easy to overdo compression if you’re not careful.
Podcast Episode 3
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Podcast Episode 2 – Nov 2010 – Audio for Videos
Show Notes
In this podcast, Ken talks about the audio people put on their videos. The basic message? Stop ruining perfectly good videos by narrating crappy audio over the top of them! I see a LOT of sales videos on line and fully half of them have cool looking video and a voice narration that sounds like it was recorded in a kitchen or bathroom. Says “amateur” to me. How many other folks does it say that to? The irony is that excellent audio is easy and cheap, so there really is no reason for crappy audio. Maybe I’ll make that my motto:).
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Podcast Episode 1
Show Notes
In this podcast, you get to meet Dale Hensel and Ken Theriot, the two creators of Home Brew Audio. Ken schools Dale in the basics of recording and shows him how a $5 microphone can produce better audio than a $500 microphone and preamp, proving once again it’s not the gear that makes for great audio but the know-how.
