Auralphonic Episode 3: Editing Styles

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Auralphonic Episode 3: Editing Styles. Dated: February 2015.

Broadly split into two groups: 1) Record all at once, and edit everything afterwards, and 2) Edit while you go in recording. One host does very little editing, but another one does more inspired by her video editing experience (relistens and takes notes for edits on commute). For super long recordings, she has sometimes had a podfic beta catch mistakes (listening too many times can lead to zoning out or missing stuff). The third didn’t use GarageBand (actually used Nero Wave Editor for 8 years before switching to Audacity after using it on her job). She also started using Auphonic for noise cancellation, levelling, and such (2 hours for free per month) before doing her own editing. Times for editing an example around 30 minutes they all did range from [very little] to around 2 hours to between 5 and 6 hours, and a small Twitter poll averaged out to between 2 and 4 hours for a similar length recording.

Common editing tip: Snap fingers or create a noise after a mistake, so you can go back in the audio file and easily find the visual bump to remove.