Podcast Gear and Podcast Audio is HERE! …New Media Gear

The Aphex 2020MkIII processor used in Studio1A.

You have a vocal strip, or processor, to enhance mic-level audio and give it some punch. How about the other channels on your faders?

Having a front-line/back-line processing schema is a basic, yet very effective way of giving your Podcast or stream that polished sound. The idea is to have a vocal strip (or processor) handle speech, then allow a mastering, or final processor to manage the dynamics of your entire show, including stagers, intros/outros and music.

Until recently, FM, final or mastering processors were priced and marketed to radio, television and recording studios. Today, it’s a much different playing field. A mastering processor typically will perform multi-band compression, limiting, leveling and other audio enhancement that can set a production or a show apart from others.

A product like the TC Electronic Finalizer Express thoroughly impressed me with its performance, and $999 street price. Companies like Orban, Omnia and Aphex are names you will find at some of the top radio and television stations in the country. No doubt, New Media is driving a wave of high-end processing that is more affordable now than ever before.

Best,
MarkJensen

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