The more you intervene, the more time you spend editing, until at the far end of the chart you’re editing forever. There is a spectrum of audio intervention, starting at completely unedited and ending with an uber-processed editing extravaganza. I’m not saying that other podcasts or radio shows sound like robotic emanations. But I’m not willing to spend hours ironing out the speech patterns of a normal human being so they sound like they emanated from a robotic voice reading from a script. Yes, if someone lets out a long “ummmmm….” followed by three seconds of silence, I’ll trim it. I’ve given up on trying to edit out the ums and uhs of regular speech, for the most part. You could even argue that with too much editing, speaking starts to sound artificial and alien, because it no longer sounds like what we hear coming out of people’s mouths every day. Our brains are really, really good at taking all of that input and smoothing it out into something understandable. People speak with pauses and ums, with tangents and elliptical phraseology. Just because you can edit a podcast within an inch of its life-clearing out pauses, removing every um and uh and awkward pause and spoken digression-doesn’t mean you must. Not to get all philosophical on you, but editing audio is a lot of work, and depending on what kind of a podcast you’re producing, most of it is probably not necessary. Snip out the stuff you don’t want, maybe paste in some music, and call it a day. The first question worth asking yourself is, do you need to edit your show at all? If all you ever intend to do is trim the beginning and end of the show, and maybe clip out that part in the middle where you go and get yourself a soda 1, you probably don’t need an editing tool more complicated than the free Audacity or some other wave-form editor like Sound Studio or Fission. Let me describe them to you now… To edit, or not? I use a few different editing approaches based on my tools and the needs of the particular shows I do. Editing can be incredibly simple-trim the beginning and end point and be done with it-or as complicated as you want to make it. Once you’ve recorded your podcast, it’s time to edit.
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