The Podcast Engineering Show

My returning guest is Mary Mazurek! She is an audio engineer with 25 years experience, radio producer at WFMT Chicago including the "Live from WFMT" show, and instructor in the Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College in Chicago. We discussed: Recording ping pong balls being poured into an open piano! Recording and broadcasting classical ensembles in studio and on location Identi...

My guest is Mike Murphy, h ost and producer of Mike Murphy Unplugged . He also created the Podcaster Toolkit (resources and tutorials for content creators), which btw is very completely different from our friend Ralph Rivera's Podcaster's Toolbox ;) Equipment, workflow, processing, production time-savers... We discussed all of these, including: The Essential Sound Panel in Adobe Audition (match lo...

My guest is Rob Greenlee, Head of Podcast Content at Spreaker , host of the Spreaker Live Show , and co-host of the New Media Show . Also FYI, here's the link to Rob's post titled Nine Evolutions of Podcasting In 2017 . Rob has been involved in podcasting for many years so he had a lot to share above and beyond his equipment and workflow. Topics discussed included: Doing sessions on his Surface Ta...

My guest is Patrick Keller, h ost and producer of The Big Seance Podcast . He also teaches vocal music and music production and technology at a middle school. Note: We talked a bit about EVP's (electronic voice phenomena), which are basically audio recordings of ghosts and spirits! Check out one of Patrick's episodes where he plays some of this audio . We had a blast discussing various production...

My guest is  Jason DeFillippo  - p roducer of The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast, cohost of Grumpy Old Geeks podcast, Podcast Editor, and host and producer of Does It Have Legs . Jason has an awesome podcast studio setup - listen for all the details. We discussed his equipment, workflow, processing and lots more. Here's some of what we covered: PreSonus 192 interface 2-3 Mac mini's for connecting g...

My guest is Adron Buske, host and co-producer of the Nerd for a Living podcast, and co-founder and creative director at Armadian Creative . We had a riveting conversation about his equipment and workflow, which he was nice enough to outline for us here: GEAR Mixer - Alesis Multi-Mix 8 - USB Pyle 4 channel headphone amplifier Backup - M-Audio MobilePre Amp (2 channel) Mics MXL 990 - main interview...

FYI, here are the links to what Chris initially mentioned: Podfest in Orlando Feb.23-25 ,   The Podcasting Course in Lexington, KY, Apr.21-22 ,  and Podcast Engineering School in Denver, Apr.2-7 . Chris also did a speed round on his own equipment and workflow! (which he has never done before on the show) Then he spoke in detail about his new stuff, including: Why he tweaked his Neve Portico II cha...

My guest is Zack Hanni, a udio engineer and owner of Soma Recording Studios . He engineers/produces music so it was nice to talk with him about some of the production processes and tricks he uses. Fyi, h e majored in Audio Production and minored in Entertainment Technology at Middle Tennessee State University. We discussed several topics in great depth: (listen to the audio for the FULL experience...

My guest (for his 2nd appearance) is Max Flight, host of  Airplane Geeks Podcast , co-host and producer of The UAV Digest  and the #PaxEx Podcast . Max continues to amp up his production quality, equipment and workflow so I wanted to speak with him about his new toys and plugins. (check out his first appearance here ) We covered: How Max and I eliminated some slight distortion from his signal just...

My guest is Garth Humphreys, h ost and producer of Audio Pizza , iBlindTech and Aussie Mac Zone . Garth lives in Australia and we had a fun session. We discussed his equipment and workflow, including: Rode NT-1 Amadeus Pro Audio Hijack Pro FX Chains on individual tracks as well as the main mix bus Auphonic to append and prepend music, intro, etc. Editing tips We also covered 3 handy functions in R...

Announcement: We will be taking a break for the holidays, so after this episode we will be back on Jan. 5th. Links mentioned in this episode: Podfest Multimedia Expo in Orlando, Florida from Feb.  23-25, 2017 The Podcasting Course in Lexington, Kentucky from April 21-22, 2017 Podcast Gear Group (Facebook group led by the incomparable Marc Johanssen) First I mention and explain what I'm using to re...

My guests are Ralph Rivera and his wife Carol Lynn! They are podcasters, as well as developers of The Podcaster's Toolbox , and lovely people. We recorded this episode using their brand new custom mobile podcasting rig! They are going to be travelling a lot over the next year so they put together a top quality mobile rig which they can take anywhere to record. It houses many pieces of equipment, a...

My guest is The Real Brian, host of The Real Brian Show , and Arrow Squad ! BTW-- I laughed so much listening to his recent episode where he spoke with the legendary JP Sears. In this episode we discussed: Signal chain - PR 40 mic, Mackie 1202 mixer, Behringer MDX 4600, Roland R-05, Zoom H5 Mixing to AIFF file Stereo vs Mono final MP3s Audacity Plugins - AU, peak limiter, noise reducer Levelator T...

My guest is Greg Heist, p roducer and cohost of The Future Stir , and Chief Innovation Officer at Gongos . FYI, the website for The Future Stir uses a really cool WordPress theme called Soundbyte Podcast/Audio Template. Take a look at their site  here . Greg and I discussed: Focusrite Mixcontrol Drawner S73 plugin on master bus Feeding Stems into Auphonic Multitrack 2nd generation Focusrite 18i20...

My guest is Jonathan Messinger, producer and host of The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian , and founder of  Typedrawer Media  producing interactive story podcasts for kids. I loved learning exactly how Jonathan creates the robot voices for the various characters on his show. We also discussed: Jonathan uses a PR30 (not a PR40 like many many others) Background music levels and ducking Panning Hinde...

My guest is Brian Adoff, owner of Riveting FM , and producer of Drink Drank Drunk  as well as the upcoming show, Unlocked... We talked about SO much, including: SM7B's Lipsmacks Keyboard shortcuts Using two Audition templates WAV files with 3 channels instead of 2! FX chains Bussing 3-4 voices to a vocal track w/ loudness meter Adding a tiny bit of reverb Waves Silver bundle Cloudlifter dbx 286s Z...

My guest is Scott Weingart , producer and h ost of The EMCrit Podcast , as well as a physician (MD, FCCM) and Editor-in-Chief of EMCrit . Scott is not your average podcast producer and we really learned a lot from him about his equipment, workflow and processing. I also got to tell a cool story about a sweet monitoring trick I learned from the immortal audio engineer Andy Wallace from his sessions...

My guest is Cliff Ravenscraft , the Podcast Answer Man ! I actually got my start in podcasting by watching his tutorial videos ;) He began podcasting in 2005, and since then he has trained many, many people how to start and produce their podcast. Enjoy this episode! We discussed Cliff's hardware setup and workflow, including: Noise reduction Mackie VLZ4 MDX-4600 Roland R-05 iJingle Pro - app to pl...

My guest is Cody Boyce - podcaster, podcast producer, and founder of  Podcast Masters . Commander Cody is also a cohost on the Rogue Squadron podcast . Some of what we discussed (which Cody uses): Soundflower -to- OBS -to- Twitch AKG C1000S dynamic microphone EQ - hard filter at around 120 Hz on every voice (which he adjusts to taste) Logic Pro How Cody uses Shure 57's Motu Traveler WNS - Waves No...

My guest is Bryan Orr , i ndependent narrative audio producer and host/producer of the  Dialed In podcast. An all-around cool guy who's actually involved in other shows and his own business as well. Fun times discussing Bryan's equipment, processing, and narrative-style production philosophy and workflow. Listen for all the details. (fyi, my written show notes here are always just the tip of the i...

My guest is Ray Ortega, host of The Podcasters' Studio , and Podcasters' Roundtable . Ray has been an incredibly helpful force in the world of podcasting since 2007. Enjoy listening to this episode full of tips, equipment and workflow details straight from one of the podcasting masters! Oh, and here's the link to the Vocal Rider plugin we mentioned: Thanks for hanging on the show with us, Ray! DID...

My guest is Joshua Rivers - Owner of Podcast Guy Media and host the Creative Studio Podcast . It was fun hanging with Josh. BTW- he ( and his children! ) are fans of Barry, too! YEAH OH YEAH Josh's equipment and workflow include: PR40, AT2100USB Behringer Q802USB Sennheiser HD 280 PRO Headphones Adobe Audition iFree Skype Recorder Multiband compressor Hard Limiter We also discussed the production...

Have you ever recorded a podcast with 16 people in one room - all on the show simultaneously?!?! Liza Miller has. My guest is Liza Miller, h ost and producer of the Motorcycles & Misfits podcast. She used to do live sound in clubs, many moons ago, and now she is having a blast with so many friends doing Motorcycles & Misfits.  Btw, she found a pretty solid, inexpensive purchase: 3 Behringer XM1800...

My guest is Alan Mead, d entist and host of The Dental Hacks Podcast . Don't let the whole dentist thing mislead you - he has a bad ass audio setup and he records multitrack the same way I do!  We talked about a lot of cool tips.  He uses: Rode Broadcaster microphone Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 Four windows laptops Four dbx 286s's iMac running Adobe Audition Backing up original track files Thanks for...

My guest is Chris Saunders, host of Return to Camp Blood - a Friday the 13th fan podcast. Chris has a very practical and low cost setup, and he makes the most of it! (Btw, his  show is super niche in that they only talk about Friday the 13th movies...lol) He produces his show from start to finish and regularly has 2-3 other co-hosts who are all in different states. They connect via Skype and recor...