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Hi, my name is Gareth Davis.
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I'm an audio producer for The Sound
Boutique and today I'm going to give
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you a tip about dialogue editing.
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I'm a composer for TV and an
audio producer for podcasts and
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other original content through
my company, The Sound Boutique.
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I've produced four podcasts for
myself in the last four years,
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including this one, Podcasting People.
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The first podcast, Making a Soundtrack,
started as a collaboration between
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me and a fellow composer to try
and create a drama soundtrack
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without actually being commissioned.
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And from the minute I started
producing and editing that.
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as well as hosting with
composer Dan Watts.
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I was absolutely hooked on podcasting.
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I chose to edit that series while Dan
mixed the album, baptism of fire, and I
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did that really to hone my editing skills.
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I wanted to experience that pressure and
to problem solve on the go, as it were.
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And it's a skill I use regularly now, to
the point where I fix audio for clients, I
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edit dialogue, and in one case, repurpose
a whole video series as a podcast.
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The second podcast I came up with was,
um, well, my lockdown baby in a way.
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Creative Cuppa was a series of short
form chats with people working in
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the many different creative jobs.
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From photographers, artists, Writers,
musicians, actors, um, I produced around
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70 episodes of that and it was my way of
staying connected with the world and the
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creative people in it while we were going
through lockdowns during the pandemic.
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Aside from this one, uh, my latest
podcast is called The Music Room, which
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features stories of inspiration from
composers, songwriters, and musicians.
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Uh, I'm closing in on 20 episodes of
that now, and I have to give massive
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praise to my guests, actually, who go
out of their way to make time for me.
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I really do appreciate it, and I think
it shows how willing and keen, even,
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people are to help each other and
pass on their wisdom and experience.
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For me, there's no better way
to learn than by experience.
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I love developing formats for podcasts,
composing or sourcing the music,
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approaching and booking guests, figuring
out if it's a limited series or ongoing,
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chatting with listeners, , And even
in the case of the Music Room, growing
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a community that popped up around it.
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Uh, so for me, and I guess much like any
other industry, experience shines through.
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If you put the work in and are
prepared to be a sponge for everything
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podcasting, then you'll end up as a
person who people come to for advice,
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because your podcasts sound great.
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My big tip today is
about dialogue editing.
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As much as hosts want to hear all
the ums and ahs and silences taken
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out, There's a balance to be struck
between dialogue that sounds a bit
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all over the place and something that
sounds so slick it's almost clinical.
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So I'd encourage all the podcast
editors out there, and if you have
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lots of experience, you'll know this
already, there's that word experience
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again, I would encourage editors to
only take the silences, the ums and
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the ahs and all that if it doesn't
affect the natural flow of speech.
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I like to think of dialogue editing as
kind of tightening things up, so don't tip
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the other way into the way of the robot.
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You can find me at www.
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thesoundboutique.
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com and you can see all of
my links in the show notes.
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Thanks for listening to podcasting people.
