Podcasting
How has it been 3 years since I published this how to record a podcast with Audio Hijack tutorial? What is time even? Watching it and seeing pre-pandemic Chris sitting their naively unaware of what’s about to hit the world. 😞 Time to update it for @RogueAmoeba’s v4 of the app!
I dig tools like Descript for editing - but I feel like I’ve stared at audio this way for long enough that I can almost see the words as I’m editing. I’d still love a way to have a text searchable archive of shows, which is where Descript is super handy. #podcasteditor
I’m awful at goal setting in longer term situations. I know my business is at a plateau, and it’s fine, but beyond some sort of capitalist “get more money so I can work less?” thought, I’m overwhelmed at the thought of small changes to grow. Maybe I’ll learn by osmosis. :)
I fired up Twitter to figure out how I wanted to remove past tweets and archive my account, only to be connected via a recommendation to a potential client. As much as I want to 💩on the bird place, it has given me connections to most of my current and past #podcast clients.
Happy old fashioned happy hour to those celebrating. AMA while I edit this podcast. ngl.link/lemonpodc…
When one of your client’s says your name is “Lemon Podcasting” on their fairly large podcast, it’s maybe worth it to go grab the domain name just in case someone looks it up. 😂
Even if they didn’t already have the best UI for adding podcast episode details - trust me, I add and update a lot of podcast episodes - Transistor’s “import guest details from Twitter” is worth switching for alone. 😆 So much time saved!
Ice, Ice, Baby
There’s a lot of sounds, besides the obvious one of people talking, that gets picked up by microphones and I get to hear while I’m editing podcasts.
One that triggers an instant “Ooh I want that!” is the sound of someone drinking something with ice. It could be iced coffee, pop, alcoholic beverage, soda water, juice - I have no idea what’s actually in the glass. But that clinking sound of ice in a cup as it’s being tilted up to someone’s mouth and then back down triggers an almost pavlovian response in my brain to want to go get myself some sort of drink with ice in it.
Here’s a clip of the sound I mean from a recent edit with all identifying sounds removed other than the ice. (You may have to click a few “x"s to let Dropbox just play the video in your browser)
How about you - want a drink?
