The Podcast Engineering Show

This show focuses on the technical production of audio podcasts. Chris Curran chats with podcasters about their audio equipment, software and workflow to help you learn how to produce better sounding podcasts. You’ll also learn solutions to common audio issues as well as plenty of tips and tricks. By listening to this show you will gain a TON of knowledge and skills that will make a HUGE difference in your sound quality _and_ save you time! Subscribe/Follow today and start listening! Your host Chris Curran has a background in podcast production (Forbes, Dun & Bradstreet, J&J, etc) as well as music production (Sarah McLachlan, Jeff Buckley, Foreigner, etc). When he entered podcasting in 2012, he noticed that most podcasters (and producers) do not have a good understanding of fundamental audio engineering concepts, which sabotages the quality of their sound from the very beginning. This show, as well as Podcast Engineering School, helps podcasters and producers reach professional levels of podcast audio production.

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episode 155: Andrew Gelina


My guest is Andrew Gelina - host of Underserved (a podcast aimed at the tech industry) and CEO of the software consulting firm Syrinx.

We discussed so much:

  • Shure SM7b (love/hate relationship)
  • Shure SM58's
  • All mics go through Cloudlifters, SM7B also goes through a dbx 286s
  • Behringer Xenyx 1832 mostly just for mix minus to two dedicated Skype machines
  • Zoom-Zoom setup (H6 as primary recorder of all vox on separate channels, H5 as a backup off the mixer/backup mode -12db as well)
  • Copy 48K/24 bit WAVs off Zooms to a Dell Windows 10 PC (desktop, 4 monitors), import into Reaper
  • WAVs rendered, converted to MP3, upload to Libsyn for distribution to everywhere, and use Libsyn for podcast website too.
  • Backblaze for backups, Microsoft OneDrive for syncing, and a Macbook Pro laptop for working on editing mobile and experimenting with video.
  • Started with Audacity for an episode, then learned Reaper
  • Normalize each track separately to -23 LUFS with SWS Extension (free)
  • Auto Trim / Split Silence 250 ms -32db (Reaper built-in) on all tracks
  • Custom LUA script I had built by Raymond Radet (https://www.extremraym.com/) to do a Truncate Silence like Audacity, similar to Overcast’s Smart Speed
  • Each track has iZotope RX 7 voice denoise, breath control, de-ess, mouth click, plosive, adjusted as needed (paid)
  • Sonible Smart EQ – learn each track’s voice separately. (paid)
  • AWESOME Dugan-style automixer script (free) https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=173289
  • Master channel: Ozone 8 to add a little air, Tri-Leveler 2 (free) to get to -16 LUFS, Limiter, Loudness meter
  • Render to 48K/24 bit mono wav, watch peaks.
  • Custom Python script watches /renders directory, converts WAVs to MP3 using ffmpeg (yes, LAME encoder, I know) and copies out to my private www server for QA.
  • Second pass of editing I work backwards using timestamped notes to avoid shifting things out from under myself.
  • Libsyn – I think they update tags IN the mp3 FROM their data, not the other way around. I checked in VLC. Other Audacity holdover.
  • I would love to help you make Reaper your home – no Sound Forge or separate RX 7 needed!
  • Multi-platform Reaper editing is interesting – use OneDrive to allow bouncing back and forth between Windows and Mac editing the same episode/files. Relative paths turned on, copy to /Media. VST paths set for both Win/Mac. Export complete configuration from Reaper (Win) to Reaper (Mac).
  • Andrew's Favorite PES episodes/guests: Mike Delgaudio, Dan Dugan, Dan Gonzalez
  • My kids can now recite Barry lines when they hear them drop in the car

Thanks for being a great guest, Andrew!

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 November 7, 2019  1h8m