Studio

Studio

Studio

After a 2 week hiatus due to a studio renovation I'm back with another episode of Studio! Today I talk to Geoff Manchester, an award-winning composer, mixing and mastering engineer, as well as product specialist at iZotope. Geoff shares with us some tips and tricks for getting a great recorded vocal for your podcast, as well as introduces us to some plugins available from iZotope to clean up your recordings, mix them and add that finishing polish that makes them really stand out.

Note: This is not a sponsored podcast for iZotope, I just really love and believe in their audio plugins! You can try all of these for free by downloading a demo on the iZotope web site and look for a giveaway coming in the next episode for some of the software talked about today!

Mentioned in this episode

Geoff Manchester on Twitter

Manchester

iZotope's web site

RX Elements from iZotope

Neutron Elements from iZotope

Ozone Elements from iZotope

The New Audio Podcast

Pro Audio Essentials at iZotope

Geoff's RX tutorial on iZotope's website

Music for Studio comes courtesy of Jeff Stark at Attune Musical Design. Our new logo was designed by Cory Jespersen. Studio is hosted, edited and mixed by William Smith. 

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On today's show I respond to a listener question! Jay Fratt of the Conservative Hippie podcast writes in to ask about my prior experience with podcasting, my motivations for Studio and what my podcast business plan looks like. 

The Conservative Hippie

Cory Jespersen's artwork

As always, the music in Studio is composed by Jeff Stark of Attune Musical Design. And we've got some killer new podcast artwork courtesy of Cory Jespersen (see the link to his art in the links above)

Thanks for listening this week, and I'll be back next week with even more for the independent podcaster who wants to professionalize their sound. Talk to you then!

 

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On today's show I'm excited to bring you an interview with Amanda McLoughlin. Amanda recently penned a fantastic article on Medium titled "Lessons from an Independent Podcaster" which really got my attention -- so much so that I had to have her on the show to talk about it! 

Amanda is also the host of Spirits, a podcast that just passed the 1M downloads mark after only 18 months! We talk about the growth of that show, including how she got included on Apple's "New and Noteworthy" section, as well as the production and sound design of her second show Join the Party.

You'll also learn a lot about mindset, growing your podcast audience, and "whole-assing" your podcast - great term from Amanda that I'll probably steal! 

I can't think Amanda enough for sitting down to talk to me this week and hope you enjoy this interview!

Links:

Lessons from an Independent Podcaster

Spirits

Join the Party

Amanda on Twitter

I'd also be remiss not to mention the killer new artwork for the show! Thank you to Cory Jespersen for providing the art, and as always, our sound design and intro music come courtesy of Jeff Stark at Attune Musical Design. 

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On today's show I'll introduce you to some of my favorite audio plugins for enhancing the sound of podcasts. I demo iZotope RX Elements. Nectar 2 Production Suite including Breath Control, and the Greg Wells MixCentric Plugin from Waves Audio. 

RX Elements from iZotope

Nectar 2 from iZotope

Greg Wells MixCentric

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On today's show I speak with Madeline Dowling, a music supervisor at Marmoset Music. 

Marmoset is a full-service music agency, meticulously curating a roster of rare, vintage and emerging artists, bands and record labels for music licensing. Marmoset also boasts an award-winning Original Music Production Team, working directly with indie artists and bands to craft original scores and soundtracks for nearly any creative need imaginable.

They also have some great music for podcasters to license! 

We also talk about one of the partnerships Marmoset has as a music provider for Gimlet Media, my favorite podcasting studio!

Links:

Read the full transcript for this interview

Marmoset Music

Gimlet Media

Our theme music is by Jeff Stark at Attune Musical Design. You can support Studio by leaving a review on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you download podcasts.

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On today's show I talk why you should think small when growing your podcast show -- with an assist from an interview Seth Godin did with Tim Ferris last year. You will learn how earning your audience one person at a time can be so powerful, and hopefully be less stressed out with the pace of your show's growth.

Mentioned in this episode:

Tim Ferris Podcast 

Think Small to Grow Big

Seth Godin

Our theme song and musical scoring for Studio comes courtesy of Jeff Stark at Attune Musical Design.

If you have a podcast that you produce and would like to be featured on Studio, reach out to me! [email protected]

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There was a lot of news related to podcasting at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference last week and I've got the highlights. It looks like the Podcast app that comes with every iOS device will be getting some love, as well as some new tags in Apple's podcast specification that will help podcasters who create serialized shows. Finally, it looks like we will get access to in-podcast analytics - but is that information a blessing or a curse?

Mentioned today:

Podcast update from WWDC (Apple)

OmnyStudio

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