055 - Compression
Jey's Podcasting Journal
English - February 27, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes - 8.62 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What is compression and what problems does it solve? Give me ten minutes and I'll tell you all about it. Well, as much as I can in ten minutes!
The short version is that a compressor reduces the dynamic range of a recording. Let's find out why that's useful.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: Facing into my closet (I'm not liking the sound here. Sounds muffled and boxy. I guess the mic is being shielded too much)
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