053 - Gain Staging part 3 - Using Virtual Devices to Redirect Audio to Your DAW

Virtual audio devices allow us to take the sound coming out of one app and route it to our DAW. This way we can change the volume levels for remote interview apps and make sure the volume of our guest's voice is perfect. 

Apps for Windows: VB-Audio VoiceMeeter Banana (https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm) is Donationware - give generously! 

Apps for Mac: Audiohijack from Rogue Amoeba  (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) is not free. The app Blackhole is free. ( https://existential.audio/blackhole/ )

PRODUCTION NOTES

Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic

Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder

Recording location: My Car

Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)

Editing app (and EQ) : 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.

Episode art: Canva

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