079 - Plugins
Jey's Podcasting Journal
English - March 23, 2021 23:05 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
VST, VST3, AU, AAX plugins! What does it all mean? Why are plugins for my DAW useful. How do I decide if they are worth the investment?
ERA Standard Bundle ( https://accusonus.com/products/audio-repair/era-bundle-standard ) I use this suite. Thought the Assistant plugin crashes my DAW! Not a problem as I don't need that as my DAW has the functionality, to build and effects-chain built in.
iZotope ( https://www.izotope.com/ ) Start by looking for the Elements versions of the apps as these are cheaper. I have the Elements plugins but hardly ever use them.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device: Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: On my bed
Recording format: WAV (32-bit float mono)
Sound Treatment Mixing and EQ: Adobe Audition with ERA Voice EQ Plugin
Editorial Edit: Descript.com
Mastering 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