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I'm Danny Brown,
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and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips,
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the show that helps you be a better podcaster
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in just a minute a week.
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And now, this week's episode.
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Way back in episode four,
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I spoke about the importance of editing your podcast,
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and I'll link to that in the show notes.
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But when it comes to editing, what's the best platform to use?
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After all, editing can be pretty complicated, and that's why editors charge the big bucks.
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However, you can edit yourself.
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And the good news is, a lot of editing software is pretty easy to pick up, or doesn't have a huge learning curve.
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So which editor should you use?
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If you're looking for a free platform, the three I'd recommend are GarageBand, which comes installed on Mac,
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Audacity, which you can download for Mac or PC,
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and Reaper.
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Now Reaper does have a bit of a learning curve, but there's a great playlist on YouTube from Mike DelGaudio, the Booth Junkie,
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and I'll also link to that in the show notes.
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When it comes to paid editing software,
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there are two that I really recommend.
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There's Hindenburg Pro, which I use,
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and the great news is it does a lot of the hard work for you.
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So, when you upload your audio file,
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it will automatically add noise reduction,
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make sure the levels aren't too noisy,
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and a few other tricks behind the scenes.
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You can set it to the default loudness level for podcasts,
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which is generally minus 16 LUFS.
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The other one I'd recommend,
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if this is your first time editing your own podcast,
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is Descript.
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Now, while it's moved over to video production now,
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it's still a pretty good editor when it comes to audio.
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And the cool thing with Descript is
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it's like using a Word doc or a Google doc.
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When you upload your audio file, text appears on the screen
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and you simply use that text to edit the audio.
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So if you've got words that you want to remove,
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you just delete them in the text
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and they're automatically deleted from your audio too.
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It's a really cool way to edit a podcast
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and a lot of podcasters highly recommend it.
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And again, I'll leave links to all these tools
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in the show notes,
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so be sure to check them out after the episode.
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Until the next time, happy podcasting.
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