069 - Soundtrap. The best DAW You've Never Head Of
Jey's Podcasting Journal
English - March 13, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes - 8.77 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Soundtrap ( https://www.soundtrap.com/ ) is a cloud-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that I think will take over the world! Well, at least if you are looking for a free DAW. Listen to find out why.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Samson Q2U for the narration. For the interview, I used a Microsoft Lifechat LX6000 headset. Rohan used a Sennheiser PC8 headset.
Recording device/app: Sountrap (free tier)
Recording location: I was in my dining room while Rohan was upstairs in his room.
Recording format: WAV exporting to 320kbps, CBR, stero, mp3 file (I have no control over this export setting).
Mixing and Editing app: Soundtrap
Master 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