by Christopher S Penn | Jun 25, 2020 | Audio, Marketing, Marketing Technology, Podcasting, Review
Mitch asks, “With the return of the Levelator, what’s the best audio leveling solution for podcasting?” For those unfamiliar, the Levelator is a piece of software that promises one-click cleanup of audio to ready it for podcasting. Other solutions,...
by Christopher S Penn | Apr 13, 2020 | Audio, Marketing, Marketing Technology, Podcasting
Mitch asks, “What’s the best leveling software for podcasting? What are the recommended techniques and settings?” Way back in the day, everyone and their cousin used something called the Levelator. That has since been discontinued; in its place, I...
by Christopher S Penn | Nov 4, 2019 | Audio, Content, Content Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Technology, Review, Video, YouTube
As mentioned in this week’s newsletter, testing your gear to understand what’s good and what’s not in specific use cases is essential. In the Great Mic Bakeoff, we look at 8 different types of microphones for use in shooting video on your smartphone....
by Christopher S Penn | Dec 5, 2018 | Audio, Conferences, Marketing, Marketing Technology, Speaking, Video
Amy asks, “I saw this cool setup you were using at the marketing profs conference – would you mind sharing what hardware/software you used? I am in the events space and trying to do more independent recordings like this. Thanks!” Hardware Kimafun wireless...
by Christopher S Penn | Feb 26, 2018 | Audio, Marketing, Technology, Video
I’ve been working with much more video lately and had a question I needed an answer to – what microphones generate the best quality audio when I’m filming on my iPhone X? I had these microphones available to test: Wired headphones that come with the...