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Briefing the guest beforehand to not begin every spoken answer with "So: "

dredmorbius 5y ago
Postproduction editing is much more effective for removing verbal tics and the like. On the Media ran a segment a few years back (2007) on the practice, and product, of audio editing: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/129437-pulling-back-the-curtain https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/129437-pul... (transcript available, click to view) audio: https://pdst.fm/e/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm052507f.mp3 https://pdst.fm/e/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wny...
- ghaff 5y ago
  Having a podcast makes you very aware of verbal tics, including your own. I don't knock myself out over it but I typically spend a couple hours on a podcast removing umms, pauses, general verbal stumbles, etc.
  - dredmorbius 5y ago
    That's a start, though there's far more than that. The roll the tape and broadcast everything school makes for terrible audio, with very few exceptions. Editing should be for tics, extraneous discussion, flow, etc. No, don't pull a Project Veritas and make people say the opposite of what they did, but do get to the damned point. I think it may have been This American Life (or some similar aughts-era narrative programmes) which published some really good guidelines on doing your own audio editing. I'll see if I can turn up something (though a quick scan seems to show a lot of similar guides and now, university coursework). Updates: There's a more recent guide (2018) from KQED-FM here: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/662070097/starting-your-podcast-a-guide-for-students https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/662070097/starting-your-podca... That covers far more than just audio editing, though it points here for specifics: https://training.npr.org/2018/10/31/mixing-diy/ https://training.npr.org/2018/10/31/mixing-diy/ Also not what I'd had in mind originally but a pretty good guide, here: https://medium.com/@ranlevi/the-importance-of-editing-to-your-podcast-d86f66b19c53 https://medium.com/@ranlevi/the-importance-of-editing-to-you...

Postproduction editing is much more effective for removing verbal tics and the like. On the Media ran a segment a few years back (2007) on the practice, and product, of audio editing: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/129437-pulling-back-the-curtain https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/129437-pul... (transcript available, click to view) audio: https://pdst.fm/e/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm052507f.mp3 https://pdst.fm/e/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wny...

ghaff 5y ago
Having a podcast makes you very aware of verbal tics, including your own. I don't knock myself out over it but I typically spend a couple hours on a podcast removing umms, pauses, general verbal stumbles, etc.
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  That's a start, though there's far more than that. The roll the tape and broadcast everything school makes for terrible audio, with very few exceptions. Editing should be for tics, extraneous discussion, flow, etc. No, don't pull a Project Veritas and make people say the opposite of what they did, but do get to the damned point. I think it may have been This American Life (or some similar aughts-era narrative programmes) which published some really good guidelines on doing your own audio editing. I'll see if I can turn up something (though a quick scan seems to show a lot of similar guides and now, university coursework). Updates: There's a more recent guide (2018) from KQED-FM here: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/662070097/starting-your-podcast-a-guide-for-students https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/662070097/starting-your-podca... That covers far more than just audio editing, though it points here for specifics: https://training.npr.org/2018/10/31/mixing-diy/ https://training.npr.org/2018/10/31/mixing-diy/ Also not what I'd had in mind originally but a pretty good guide, here: https://medium.com/@ranlevi/the-importance-of-editing-to-your-podcast-d86f66b19c53 https://medium.com/@ranlevi/the-importance-of-editing-to-you...