068 - Audacity Pro's and Con's

Audacity is the first tool I learned when I started my podcast journey. I still use it today even though I pay for other DAWs. Listen to find out why. 

Other free Digital Audio Workstations to consider:

1. Ardour ( https://ardour.org/ ) : Cross platform. 

2. LMMS ( https://lmms.io/ ) : Cross platform

3. Garage Band ( https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/garageband/ ) : Mac only

4. Pro Tools First ( https://www.avid.com/pro-tools ) : Mac only. 

PRODUCTION NOTES

Recording Mic: Samson Q2U

Recording device : Audacity on a Dell G7 Windows 10 Laptop

Recording location: Dining table, seated, no pillow-fort (I had a police helicopter flying around - I think I got rid of it but, who knows, it's late and I'm shattered) 

Recording format: WAV (24 bit)

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