Intro to Technical Podcast Production
Equalization 2
A course by Tom Kelly , Audio Engineer and Podcaster
About the video: Equalization 2
Overview
“We will finally dig into our recordings and start sculpting the tone for clarity and intimacy. We will do plenty of listening while searching for annoying resonant frequencies, cleaning up any unnecessary or harsh tones, and massaging our voices into the best version of themselves. Then we will take it a step further and smooth both of the voices into a great partnership with each other. ”
In this video lesson Tom Kelly addresses the topic: Equalization 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to Technical Podcast Production. Learn the fundamentals of audio production to record, edit, mix, and publish podcasts like a professional.
Partial transcription of the video
“ I'll move on. Just for the sake of showing you the tool here, I'll use the built-in plug-in from Avid, and we see a lot more knobs and stuff, but it's all the same thing. We can pick the dots, we can move them around, add frequency, subtract frequencies, we can filter things out here, yadda yadda. His audio is real boomy. We tried to fix some of it with De-reverb, but it's still really boomy, so that's a lot of the low end stuff. The term boom means a huge buildup of low-end frequencies, so we'll start off with a filter. A high-pass filter or a low-cut filter, which you will find here, HP...”
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Course summary for: Intro to Technical Podcast Production
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Audio, Music Production, Podcasting

Tom Kelly
A course by Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly is an audio engineer and podcaster based in North Carolina, USA. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in audio engineering, he worked a series of jobs in the industry until he discovered his calling in podcasts. He went on to found Clean Cut Audio and now specializes in producing shows from start to finish. He’s passionate about mastering the little technical details to create engaging audio experiences.
Tom has worked on some of the world’s most-listened-to podcasts, such as The Always Sunny Podcast, The Drive with Peter Attia and True Crime Obsessed. He’s also edited interviews with the likes of Hugh Jackman and Olympic gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno.
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