024 - Multitrack: Why should I record in multitrack, whatever that is?

Jey's Podcasting Journal

English - January 27, 2021 23:48 - 8 minutes - 8.01 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Recording with each voice on a seperate audio track makes your life so much easier when editing your show. Find out why.

I used a new recording setup today. My first recording (for this show) using a laptop and external mic. It turned out a little to much bass. I've been recording with a phone for so long that my mic skills are rusty!

PRODUCTION NOTES

Mic: Samson Q2U with USB connection

Recording Device: Dell G7 Laptop

Recording Software: Audacity

Recording location: Dining room at my dining table. With my laptop behind my mic to minimize the noise from my hard-drive and laptop fan.

Recording format: 16 bit WAV file

Samplerate: 44100Hz

Editing app: Audacity

Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com

Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz

I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.

Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file