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Will Lyons: Hi, my name is Will Lyons.
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I'm a podcast editor and today
I'm going to give you a tip
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about reflecting on your edits.
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So I primarily work as an editor on the
Tape Notes podcast, which is a long form
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music based podcast, where artists and
producers reunite and talk through their
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process of bringing an album together.
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And they'll often dig into tracks, uh,
from early ideas to final sessions,
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uh, pulling parts out along the way.
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So it's really exciting.
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We've got bits of music
kind of dropped in there.
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And usually interviews
can go up to two hours.
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So that's bringing those kind of
things down into our regular format.
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Um, my job description is as
an editor, but I do a whole
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range of things on the podcast.
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Obviously the main audio side
of things, which is the pre
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processing, mixing, cleaning up
the audio, uh, and then cutting the
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interview into the podcast format.
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But I also write copy.
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So researching, writing guest biographies,
general scripts, and all that.
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I also do affiliate marketing and lots
of the backend of those kinds of things.
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So uploading, scheduling with adverts.
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Um, and over the last year, I've
been involved a lot more with
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recording and producing episodes as
well, which has been a lot of fun.
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How did I get into podcasting?
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So I guess aside from being an
avid listener of podcasts, uh,
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tape notes was really my first
job in the world of podcasting.
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I used to work in TV production, sort
of BBC music, BBC events on shows
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like Later with Jules and Strictly
Come Dancing, uh, Trooping the Colour,
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which was good fun, and I was also a
researcher on the Glastonbury coverage.
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Which involves me writing guest
biographies for every single artist that
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was going to be filmed on TV, for the
presenters to have, you know, someone
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needs to say something off the cuff.
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But I ended up meeting the guys
that run Tape Notes and I mentioned
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what I did and started writing the
guest biographies for the podcast.
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And then I think.
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I'm not sure how long into it.
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I just before COVID they brought me
on full time, taught me the ropes
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of putting the podcast together,
editing, mixing, and using the
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software and everything behind it.
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So lots of learning on the job.
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So one of the things I love about
podcasting is that it's so varied.
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There really aren't kind of rules
as to what a podcast can be.
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When I was a teenager, I would listen
to the Chris Moyles show breakfast
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podcast where they just chop out the
best bits from the, the morning show.
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And now I can go and listen to music
podcasts, get inspired by anything.
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Uh, but if you just want something funny
or kind of inspiring or mind opening,
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you can literally have anything you want
or even just to keep up to date with
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things, whether it's for short form,
long form, just something for a walk, a
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car journey or to have in the background.
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But it's so open.
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There are so many people involved in
creating all sorts of amazing things,
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that you can really have anything
or access to anything that you like.
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So my big tip.
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As an editor is to take time to
go back and listen to your edits.
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I find it so easy to get caught up in
the tiny little edits, especially going
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round and round and round and round.
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Um, you know, bringing things a
little bit closer together, trying
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to make those perfect little bits
work, especially if you're giving
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yourself only a second of lead time.
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You can get it to sound great and
it may sound great with that second.
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But if you go back, listen for a minute
or 30 seconds or whatever, and get out
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of that zone and just kind of get back
into what the podcast actually is and
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what the conversation's about, you can
really hear if that works and if that
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helps the conversation flow naturally.
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you can find me at my website,
which is will lions music.co uk.
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Uh, I'm on Instagram, which
is Will Lyons one two.
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And you can also find me on LinkedIn.
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You can see all of my
links in the show notes
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thank you for listening
to podcasting people.
