Audacity: Podcasting Freeware to Record and Edit
Music and/or sound effects can compliment a podcast nicely. However, there’s a fine line between that and overkill. A nice piece of music from a favorite song can serve as a great intro to your podcast. Audacity recording and editing software allows you to play with the audio file and add effects like a fade-in or out, which makes the podcast sound all the more professional.
Remember that anything over 44.1KHz is too much. Sound effects used during a podcast in a moment of spontaneity can be fun, but again, watch out for overkill. You do not want to alienate your audience with annoying sound clips.
Audio should never dominate over your content, either; breaking up the flow of conversation in your podcast with needless sound effects can turn off an audience in a hurry. Remember that content is king of the podcast.
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I had tried Audacity before. It is quite user friendly and is worth a look for amateur users. However, if you want a little more power - especially in cleaning up noise - i’ll recommend WavePad.
WavePad allows you to sample a length of “silence” in your audio recording and implement a spectral noise removal based on the base values of the “silence” signal. Any hissing & humming can be easily removed with this software.
However, if what you need is a simple multi-track mixing software, then Audacity is your thing. However, Audacity lacks ASIO support that many high-end sound cards use (cos of the fact that Audacity is an open source software), so you’re limited in terms of multi-track recording. You’re better off with Ableton Live / Pro-Tools.
Michael
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June 26th, 2007 at 5:31 am