thedapperdan

Hey Scott, I've always been impressed how gracious you are to stay after your shows to talk to people and sign posters. During one of these occasions you recommended D16 Group's Toraverb as your favorite in the box reverb. I picked it up - it's amazing. I'm now a big fan of everything D16 does, it all sounds so good.

Have you tried LuSH-101 yet? In my opinion, it's the best sounding analog emulating digital synth. It's great.

Do you have any other plugin recommendations?

Thanks!

Hey all, I recently began producing and mixing an NPR style podcast called - ahem, This American Gibberish.

I consulted with Rob's Audio Producer's Guide to Loudness, ultimately mixing to -24 LUFS, then using a limiter to get it to -18 LUFS for podcast consumption. I think I accomplished that (at least the -18 LUFS goal) on episode one. However, the second episode involves a lot of background music / field recordings below the interview, and because of the headroom taken up by the bass in those clips, I had a hard time getting to -18 LUFS without turning the gain in interview way down. What can I do in situations like that? Do I just keep it at -18 LUFS and make the voices and background audio quieter in those sections?

Ultimately I came pretty close, but people complained they couldn't hear the background audio (very important for the story in this case) so I gave up and turned up the background audio 4 dB and now I'm pretty sure its quite a bit higher than -18 LUFS :/. Any tips for those situations?

Also any feedback on the podcast, mixing or otherwise, is very welcome!

Thanks! Daniel

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind.

I know you're busy - the problem starts at about 0:50 in episode two, if you get a chance.

https://soundcloud.com/thisamericangibberish/distance-music#t=0:50