The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

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Spoken Word and Podcasts

Whether you are producing audiobooks, podcasts, or read-out-loud stories, spoken word projects often have to produce a lot of content with a limited amount of time and resources. While some projects, such as audio dramas, might be more reflective of what is experienced in a typical motion picture workflow, it’s more common to see longer-form work that benefits from having less manual work performed. For example, in a film that might run 90 minutes, it’s expected that the re-recordist mixer uses a light amount of dynamic control and manually adjusts the volume to produce a more “natural” sounding result. When listening to a round table format podcast, the listener expects a more “radio broadcast” type sound, where the ...