If you’re serious about your podcast and want to have equipment that gets you a professional sound, is a pleasure to use, and is extremely reliable, I’ve assembled two wish lists at B&H of everything I recommend my clients get for their audio recordings.

If you're like Tom Buck - and most content creators - you're probably turning knobs on your mixer and effects plugins until everything sounds better, but without really understanding exactly what’s going on. And like Tom, you probably know the “secret sauce” for professional audio quality is compression. So audio engineer Marcus dePaula is here to answer Tom’s question about compression by walking us through the 5 main compression settings: threshold, ratio, attack, release, and makeup (or output) gain. 

A teleprompter might sound like a dream come true — why wouldn’t you want to read something while still making eye contact with your audience? But just like with anything, there are tradeoffs to using a teleprompter.

Just pressing record and starting to talk is the best way to waste a ton of your time. The better your recordings are, the less time you’ll spend editing.

Mike Dias from Earthworks Audio interviews Marcus dePaula for B&H Event Space about how his experience touring with bands earlier in his career as an audio engineer now serves his podcast and video streaming consultation clients.

Watch the discussion at https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventDetails.jsp/id/4247 or https://vimeo.com/738723743

Reference tracks are an essential tool for any audio engineer. These are mine.