PES 117: Brad Hargis from The Cinema Guys

The Podcast Engineering Show

I chat with Brad Hargis, cohost of The Cinema Guys podcast, about how he records and produces episodes with his two cohosts, Justin and the Cinemaiden.

We discussed:

• Ferrite for on-location recording
• Microphones: ATR 2100 (Brad), Knox Gear KN-UM01 USB/XLR Mic (Cinemaiden), PylePro PDMIC58 (Justin)
• Mixer: Mackie ProFX8v2
• Recorders: Main EVISTR L53, backup EVISTR L150
• Edit with Audacity on a 15 inch MacBook Pro
• Auphonic
• iTunes to convert to a M4A file
• Recording: Mics connected via XLR to Mixer I record My mic (ATR 2100) on L channel and co-hosts(Knox and Pyle) on R channel. Record to WAV file on the L53 main recorder.
• After recording, copy audio files to computer and open in Audacity to 1. Use noise reduction, 2. Compress to level audio down, 3. Amplify to set audio to -1 dB, and 4. Use Nyquist Noise Gate on each channel.
• Edit all the audio adding music in post.
• Auphonic to set the final level to -15 LUFS.
• To finalize the file I import the .WAV into iTunes to convert to 96k Stereo M4A file adding artwork and metadata to the file.
• Upload file to Blubrry and post to my Wordpress website that is hosted on godaddy using PowerPress.

Thanks for being such a great guest, Brad!

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