In this episode, I (finally) stop espousing theory and give you the exact audio engineering steps you should follow to make amazing sounding and accessible episodes of your podcast. They are:

1. Clean up the noise
2. Control the dynamic range
3. Tweak the EQ
4. Compress to impress
5. Mix well and export at -16 LUFS

How do you do each of those steps is dependent on your DAW, but I do mention some plugins and services I use, like:

• Hindenburg Journalist Pro
• iZotope’s Voice De-noise
• Vocal Rider from Waves
• My Aeropress coffee maker, oddly enough

Also, and somewhat uncharacteristic of me, I enlisted the help of some smart and talented audio engineers to vet out my thinking. So thank you, Marcus DePaula, Tom Kelly, Josh Wade and Chris Curran for keeping me honest.

Two things before I go one:

1. BuyMeACoffee/evoterra is where you should go if you enjoyed the tips and guidance in this miniseries. More miniseries is are coming, and you can show your appreciation to me at buying me a virtual coffee.
2. The Flick group app for Podcast Pontifications is growing! People are talking about next week's planned episodes as well as talking about this week's miniseries. We’d love for you to join. It’s free!

Enjoy your weekend (because I don't do episodes on Fridays!) and I shall be back on Monday with a brand new...