compression

Why and How Your Podcast Needs Loudness Normalization

Loudness normalization conforms audio to a perceived loudness level. Learn why that’s important in podcasting and how to make your podcast meet the standard.

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How to make your podcast mobile-friendly

People are listening to, watching, and subscribing to podcasts more on mobile devices than anything else. Here are nine things to make your podcast mobile-friendly.

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10 production mistakes podcasters make

We all make podcasting mistakes. Here are 10 things many podcasters do wrong with their podcast production.

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9 Things Audacity Doesn’t or Can’t Do

Audacity, like any program, has its limits. There are workarounds to some of these, or alternatives to others.

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How to Improve Your Voice from a Cheap Microphone with Audacity

Learn three easy Audacity tips for making your voice sound better, regardless of what microphone you use.

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Soundboard 2.0, Podcaster’s Theme for WordPress, and Pasting in Audacity

Review of Ambrosia Software’s Soundboard 2.0, Podcaster’s Theme for WordPress, compressor/limiter/gate on a small mixer, and pasting in Audacity.

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Podcasting with Software Compressors vs. Hardware Compressors

Compression, expansion, noise gate, threshold, ratio—what does it all mean? Should you use a software audio compressor, or a hardware compressor?

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Audacity and iTunes—Making Not-LAME MP3s

LAME is still the best MP3 encoder, but further tests and conversations reveal that it just may not be the best for podcasting.

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How to make LAME MP3s with Audacity

Stop making crappy MP3s with Audacity and LAME! I tell you how to encode MP3s the way LAME was designed to, so you get a great audio quality and small file size.

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How to use Chris’s Dynamic Compressor for great volume in Audacity

Adobe Audition has its fantastic multiband compressor, but did you know you can get fantastic audio compression from a free plugin to Audacity?

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