Mastering podcasts with Audacity (NewsForge)

[Posted March 28, 2006 by ris]

NewsForge has some tips for podcasters using Audacity. "Open source software makes podcasting easy -- too easy. Listening to a playlist of first-timer podcasts can leave your ears ringing from sudden changes in playback volume. The problem is audio mastering. Recording sound is simple, but mastering that sound -- compressing volume differences, maintaining a decibel ceiling, and similar operations -- is anything but. Fortunately, an open source tool offers everything you need for mastering podcasts and other spoken-word recordings. Audacity is well-known among podcasters on all platforms for its ability as an editor; here are some tips and tools for mastering and adjusting volume, aimed at podcasters, but they could apply to anyone who needs to produce a spoken-word recording under less-than-perfect conditions."

Another way of doing similar stuff

Posted Mar 28, 2006 17:29 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

The founder of Magnatune recently posted an article about doing something similar with sox to create his podcasts (from a bunch of tracks of recordings he already has). It looks like his method might be nicer for people who are willing to pay a bit of sanity up front to have the system deal automatically with each episode without manual intervention.