Tips for Editing, Mixing and Exporting a Podcast

Your Goal with Editing

Your finished podcast should flow seamlessly from one sentence to the next. If your editing has
caused abrupt interruptions, or simply doesn’t make sense (not a good thing), then perhaps
you should reconsider your editing style or seek help from a professional to fine tune your pro-
duction and achieve a “podcast-ready” podcast.

Room Tone - Natural Sound Temperature

A location’s room tone is its auditory fingerprint. These are non-specific sounds generated by
the natural acoustics of the room. Editing may also be required when sounds overlap. If they
occur while you or another individual in your podcast are speaking your editing can be more
challenging. To preserve the original performance, try to find another take of the word(s) in
question (the one you want to replace) and edit or splice the word in to replace the unusable
take.

Production Techniques - Mixing in your show intro, imaging, and musical transitions

Remember when you wrote your podcasting script? Now is the time to mix in your show intro,
the section that announces the name of your podcast and the episode number. It is most effec-
tive if this is the voice of an announcer, distinct from your own.

Try fading your background music in when a new segment beings. Lower the volume level of the music when you are speaking so that your listeners can hear every work you say. At the end of the segment, fade your background music out. Use musical transitions between the various segments of your podcast. These musical transitions are known as bumpers, stages or sweepers.

Key Points About Mixing

In this article you balanced the volume levels of the voice-over(s), music and sound effects.
You are now ready to export your podcast recording into an MP3.

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