Top 5 Tips for Sounding Great on Your Podcasts

If you think that having a great recording voice means professional voice training, you couldn’t be farther from the truth and possibly were misguided and/or misinformed by competitors or pesky know-it-alls. There are however ways to sweeten your voice and make it sound like its been trained for radio or even theatre!

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Here are my top five tips for sounding great on podcasts:

1. Take Care of Your Instrument:

You’ve probably heard singers and radio broadcaster share how they take care of their voice. It’s just as important for podcasters to treat their voice with care. It’s not that difficult:

  • Avoid cold beverages or food before a recording.
  • Have a cup of warm water or tea with honey or lemon squeezed in.
  • Last but not least wet your throat before recording with a sip of warm water and keep water at arms length during the recording. Just don’t let that throat dry out.

2. Quality Equipment:

There are several cheap but great microphones and headphones available on the market. You need to do your research, though by reading reviews and checking the recording/playback quality in stores. Make sure that your equipment has the following things:

  • The microphone should be omni directional so you reduce the chances of recording enviornmental noise.
  • The headphone have to be noise cancelling. There is just no compromising that.
  • Buy a microphone pop-cover (if you can afford it).
  • Buy some some sound damping material and sound proof your recording area (if your budget allows of course).

3. Read that Software Manual:

Knowing your software all that it can or cannot do will help you a lot when you are polishing up the audio and making your audio sound natural and effortless. There are a lot of effects you can apply to the audio digitally but before adding any effect, do your research. Know what that effect is used for and how to best use it. Adding a bunch of different effects won’t make your podcasts “sound-professional”. Applying the right effects will.

4. Make the Tone Conversational:

If I were to share only one tip for recording great audio, it would be to relax that voice! That is the single most crucial factor for a great sounding audio. What you should do is record a casual phonecall with a friend. Play it back in your software and try to match the same conversational tone. You can do it by simply listening to the audio and adjusting your voice accordingly. Or you can do it visually, by trying to match the audio waveforms in the software.

Another tip to making your voice sound conversational is by imagining your audience is in the same room as you. That way you can just address them naturally.

5. Dry Read before the Actual Read:

A dry read is basically a recording done without any prep. You read the script as it is without any dramatic inflections, recorded effects or pauses for editing. Playback the dry read to figure out where the emphasis and thus the inflections, pauses and audio effects should go. Familiarizing yourself with the script will also help you bring the all-important conversational feel to your actual recording.

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