Today: The ins and outs of microphones, and why to think twice if you're first thought is the Blue Yeti.

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Audacity is bad for you. You've known that for a while, right? You keep promising yourself you'll leaven and find a real DAW, someone who will treat your audio right. But you just haven't yet. We're here to help you make the leap.

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It's that time of the year when plugins go on sale for ridiculous prices. And you'll probably see a lot of plugins promising analog warmth in your digital recordings. Those are great plugins for the most part, but also they are probably not what you're looking for. Today we dive into the messy world of boutique plugins.

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Gain staging is something every podcaster, knowingly or otherwise, does for each track in each episode of their podcast. Knowing what it is and how to use it can make gain staging a powerful tool to work around problems common to podcasting like high noise floors. Find out more in this episode!

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Bad audio makes for great podcasts. More specifically, big podcasts like Stuff You Should Know use low bitrates for a reason: they are trying to maximize the amount of listeners they can get by making their product as small to download as possible. Does their podcast sound worse by doing so? Absolutely! But there is genius in how hard they work to sound just that bad. More in today’s episode!

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Gates are very simple in concept, but very tough to get right, especially with podcast audio tracks that typically have a lot more than just the speaker's voice going on. Learn all about them, listen to Riley stumble through a mathematics lesson, and find out the best way to use a gate if you absolutely have to on today's episode.

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There are a lot of things to get right when deciding ont he best way to render your podcast. We break down why mono is better than joint stereo, why CBR files are an unfortunate necessity and the myth that you can't use AAC files.

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This is a bit of an addendum to our Podcast Recording Guide, delving deeper into a few terms that we noticed podcasters seemed a little shaky on. However, the great thing is for all of these, you only have to set them once and then forget about them!

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This is it! Our mega episode for all of our per-track effects. EQ, Compression, De-Essers, and Multiband Compressors. No filler, just explinations and tips for getting your podcast sounding great quickly!

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Today we're talking the do's and do not's of master effects chains for podcasts. The biggest "do not" is: don't over do it. If you're spending a lot of time on the mastering chain trying to get your levels right, you'd be better off going back through your tracks and adjusting them individually to get a better mix

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