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The basics of recording podcasts

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The basics of recording podcasts

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- [Instructor] When people ask why sound quality is so important for a podcast, to me, that's like asking why it's important for a restaurant to serve an edible food. So let's talk about the basics you should know before recording your first episode. First, you must understand signal flow in order to solve issues. Signal flow is the path of the audio from your mouth to the recorder, and after. Along the way, your audio is converted from sound waves to analog and digital information that can be recorded by the computer or played by speakers or headphones. Then you need to try to learn basic terms and formats of audio. File formats for audio such as MP3s, M4As, WAV files or AIFF. You need to understand that stereo files have left and right info, while mono files have one sound that comes from a single direction. You might also understand what raw audio is. This is audio that has not been edited yet. And also you have to…

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