Tips and tricks
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Should I enable echo cancellation?
Record a remote interview without headphones and you’ll find out what a feedback loop is almost immediately. Your guest’s voice plays through your speakers, your microphone picks it up, sends it back to them, their microphone picks up the delayed version from their speakers, sends it back to you, and within seconds you’ve got an escalating echo that makes the conversation impossible. If you’ve never heard this happen, that’s because…
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What to expect from AI “studio-quality” sound
Many services, including Riverside, Adobe Podcast, and Descript, advertise “studio-quality” sound from basic home recordings at the push of a button. The results often fall short. Most of these tools use speech resynthesis, powered by AI models trained on huge, diverse datasets of recorded voices. These AI systems are pattern predictors with no real understanding of audio. They guess from what’s in their training data. When your recording is similar…
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Basic or advanced editing?
So, Basic or Advanced editing? Either way, every audio file gets the same processing before editing starts. We reduce noise, reverb, and adjust tone and dynamics so your audio sounds smooth and consistent. Basic Editing focuses on technical fixes. We cut long pauses and dead air so the conversation flows naturally, and clean up audio “anomalies” we spot with waveform editing tools. At the start and end of your episode,…
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Does “AI” edit a podcast for me?
The short answer is sort of. But if you rely on AI to edit your whole podcast, it ends up sounding worse more often than you’d think. New clients who want professional editing sometimes send me links to their older episodes for reference. I can often hear two problems right away: an unnatural, “overprocessed” sound that’s clearly been artificially enhanced, and a conversation that doesn’t flow naturally. When I ask…