 Alright, so I co-host a podcast for SMLR with a couple of friends, and I am covering for both people who are interested in how I do this, and for work instruction in case someone else besides me wants to do production in our show, our process by which we take care of processing the audio and putting it all together for the show. Now, the first thing you see me do here is open up Audacity, and I dragged in the file for our episode number 236, the raw file. Now that process, maybe we'll document later as we're changing that again, but you know, any recorder that you're using, or OBS Studio, or anything you're doing to record, which actually for this particular thing I'm using OBS, but we have a multi-track recorder that this was recorded on to put this together. As long as you get the file, that's the starting point for this video and tutorial for setting up a podcast show. Now Audacity is free, it's wonderful, and I've heard even some of the largest places still use it because it's just, it's really unmatched for what you get from Audacity, and I've done some showing how to do some cleanup in Audacity before. And what I'm doing right now, and sliding it back and forth, finding a little bit of a blank spot, now if you hold the control key and roll the mouse in and out, you can zoom in and out of your audio. So it makes it pretty easy. They got some zoom functions up here, but that's just a fast way to do it. So now we're going to take a quick listen to the audio. All right, now here's a lot of background noise, and this was actually an interview recorded at the Microsoft Build conference. They gave us a not completely soundproof room inside of a big conference. So you can kind of see there's plenty of background noise. So the first thing we're going to do is isolate a part where there's nobody talking, and it's just the background noise. So now we're going to go ahead and go up here to effect, noise reduction. We're going to generate a noise profile. Now I did select all by clicking control A because now what my goal is to reduce that noise. So first we generate the noise profile under noise reduction and we open it up again. Now we can preview, and you can hear it's pretty much gone with only an 8 dB reduction. The goal is to reduce it as little as possible because if we get it all the way, you'll hear how funky the voices start sounding. Everyone sounds like they're talking into some type of tin can or something. So if we can get away with let's say seven, most of the background noise is gone. This is a sensitivity tool. We'll turn it up to four. Alright, and same thing. It's finding enough so it doesn't quite screw up the audio so it sounds bad, but then you get the noise reduced either. So now we're going to go ahead and apply the noise reduction, and I'll speed this up real quick. Alright, and the next thing I want to do is normalize the entirety of this. Then what that does is normalize kind of balances out the entirety of this. So the higher points and the lower points, maybe from variations in people's voice when they move their head back and forth on the microphone a little bit. That happens sometimes. This will kind of balance all that out so there's a consistent volume level all the way across. Alright, so now it's normalized and noise reduced. Now we can, if we want at this point, if we wanted to trim out and cut this, you can cut out pieces so it has a better beginning. But I actually like Caden Live a little better for doing that because we usually add our intro and sound bumps to it. So from here, I'm actually going to export the audio and create the entirety of this in a wave format so it's uncompressed. So I can use an uncompressed Agvorbus as well. It just comes down to personal preference. So raw, so audio, fixed, and end it.ag, save, another window pops up here, whoops. And you can set some parameters in there like the artist's name and things like that, not a big deal. But I'm going to skip that. We don't do that part here. Alright, now that that's exported, I'm going to close this. I don't really care as much about saving it in the audacity project format. I feel as though it's fine. You can save it just in case you want to reference it later. If not, you'll have to reply the effects. Now I'm going to go ahead and start a new project that only needs a couple of audio tracks in it. So I'll change the video track to zero. And I'll drag in this audio fix. So take a second for it to process it and create the sound wave. Now from here, same thing, I'm using Caden Live. And I've got an instruction on how to get started with this. Now I've got to locate the beginning of the podcast. Let me bring this all down to one screen. So now we're going to find the beginning of the podcast. So we talked for two minutes, getting set up and verifying. And a little camaraderie with the guest that we had on this particular show. Make sure all the microphone levels are good. So right here's my cut point and delete, remove space, bring it right to the beginning. Now we have our intro that we have. So we're going to go ahead and throw my intro in here. Drag it over. I'm just dragging the files right from another window just off screen here. So here's the intro. Slide everything over so it's all lined up. There's the intro. And then I just line these up together here. So here I can play the intro. Now the first problem you're going to notice is the intro is a lot louder than our recording. So that's that level. So we don't really care much for that. So I'll put this slide overlap here, but then we're going to go ahead and effects and go gain. And we'll drop it down to like, I don't know. Hope I dragged it on here twice. Let's delete one. There we go. And let's see if we put the gain at 40% that creates the audio level. So the same. Not bad. Not bad. So pretty close. So I'm going to go ahead and drop it down to 30. I don't like when you start a podcast and you got to adjust your volume. Either it's too loud at the beginning or the bumps that they put in are too loud. So I'm sure to make sure levels are fairly close. So there's that level. Okay. Levels are about the same. And then at the very end of our shows we have an outro that we throw in. I have that. So I'm just going to drag the outro down here. Now what I'm doing now, I'm going to start at the very beginning. Because of the way the sound kind of fades off. You see I got like a little bit of an overlap. So it'll play this. And then the music fades away. This is just really easy doing Caden live. You can kind of figure out where you want it to start. Makes them easy to overlap. Now this particular show doesn't have any bumps in the middle. But when we do have bumps that go through the middle, you'll listen for those spots. And we'll do the same thing. You drop them in. You can drag them onto the timeline like this and find the right spot to put them in. You know, we have a listener feedback bump. We have that. We try to play them all in real time. And for the most part we do because we have a sound board that plugs into our mixer. So we're dropping them in right away through an Android sound board that we loaded them into. That way I don't have to go hunt for them later and say it's editing time. So most of the time this goes really fast. And this is how you create the outro. Same thing. So I got to figure out where the end of the podcast was. All right. So I got to jump around here. Figure out the part where we were done interviewing Mr. Jeff. Okay. That appears to be the end of the show. So that's the end of the show. Then we take this and same thing. We slide this over. So now the same problem I'm going to run into again. This is going to be too loud. So I'll put this right at the end. Now the nice thing about the way Caden Live works is I can click on this. Run over to here real quick and just drag that same effect with the settings applied of 30 right to there. So I can listen to the end and make sure it doesn't blow my eardrums out when it jumps to the very ending here. And there we go. There's the outro. I can probably put just a slightest overlap in there. So it's just a little bit in there. So as soon as she says this, just jumps right into it. And that's it. That's the whole editing process. And as far as getting the show ready to be produced and ready to upload. So now we're going to go ahead and I'll hit save because I did some work in here. 236. Go ahead and render it. And specifically in this case, I'm going to render it out to a wave file. Now because of the format of our show, we make sure each one of them is exactly how we want it. So it's smlr-e-236, all caps right there with the lowercase.wave. That way we're consistent on all the file types. And that'll play a little bit coming up here. We upload everything consistently. And it helps when we're processing and posting all this onto the system for archive.org, which we're going to get to next. Because that is the part where we just like it very consistent. So if we look at any show in RSS feed, we can just simply change the numbers. The prefix is always the same and exact on all of them. All right, so I'll render it and export it. So I'm going to move the file where it needs to be. Save the changes in case I go back and edit it, not likely. Now this is the step we do kind of specifically to us. I'll go ahead and I can leave you a link to the script in the YouTube description. But this is an encoding thing we do because us being... Well, it technically just changed a little bit because mp3 is the license that's expired. Us being huge fans of open source, we encode things into org. So what this little script we did does, it takes the WAV file and it's going to turn it both into an org file and an mp3. So I'll throw the script in here, but it also adds the metadata into the files themselves before we upload them. If you're not worried about that, you can literally just upload the file as it was. I export to WAV, you can export it directly to whatever format you're going to export to and just upload it directly. All right, so I'm logged into our WordPress site and I went ahead and added a new post. Now we use a simple templating system. So this gets a little outside the scope of this. But basically what you do is we have a template we throw in here and this is where the importance of having exactly the same show title. So I know this is Episode 236. So this should have, you know, SMLRE. I just changed this to 236 from the previous template I pulled it from and this is the two feeds that we have that are going to be there. You're going to see how that works in just a second. Then I give it an episode title. It's Episode 236. We call them our fresh looks episodes, which are episodes where we do interviews or not our normal episodes or maybe even a distro review. So this is an interview with Jeffrey Snowver at Microsoft Build and the podcasters with, we're all tagging these with hashtag MSBuild podcast because a lot of us did a podcast at Build so we can kind of share amongst each other all of the different podcasts that we did in the interviews and the fun stuff. Anyways, so let's get back to archive.org and we're going to do an upload here. Upload files, choose one to upload. And there's the two files we produced for Episode 236. So it's 236.mp3 and OGG. So hit open and now we got to fill out all these little details. Now the page URL is automatic. It'll be SMLR E236 and the previous one was SMLR E235 so on and so forth. You have to name the files with that same format and they follow through on the web, the way it loads them up on the web. Then it needs a description. For us, we put the description in as Sunday morning Linux review. Then we put the episode in like that. Now this is a little tricky but not too bad. Then we put a link to the show. Now it's not live yet so it says preview because I didn't hit publish yet. And then I just take this, do a quick copy, link it, simple description. Then for the subject ads, it's Linux review and podcast and you can tell them copy and pasting these in. Here are the content as well. That's us. It is Sunday morning Linux review. And what is today's date? Today's actually going to be the published date and audio date so we're going to call it May 28th. You can back date. You just can't forward the dates. If you recorded it previously and sometimes I'm doing this on a Monday I back date it to the day of the recording. Community audio, not a test item. It's in English. We do creative commons but prohibit commercial use. You can take this, listen to it, do whatever you want with it, download it. It's all creative commons. So go ahead and upload and create the item. All right. Now the way the derived system works inside of archive.org it's actually going to create a torrent of it and an M3U. It only derives though based on things you didn't create. So what I've done is I did load an Agvorbus and MP3 so those are original files but then it created derivatives of the other ones. So anyways, we're going to start with the MP3 file. We just right click, click, copy link. I'm going to go over here. And this is part of the Blueberry plugin that we have. B-L-U-B-R-R-Y that we're using to do this. So we know this is the MP3 one so we hit verify. Verified successfully. Now we're going to go down and right click on the Agvorbus version. Paste the URL in. I probably could have pasted the same one and backed out to .og but that's fine. Hit verify URL. And this is how, this is what controls the feed for us. So it automatically figures all the other details out. Then we're going to click these categories over here. Standard WordPress stuff. Show Ag, show MP3. So they're categorized. It's the only thing we post on here. And I'm going to ahead and hit publish. And I'm going to go ahead and fill in some details afterward. First thing you do is get it published. I'm out of a few details about the interview that I'm going to put in here for description. So if you look at some of our other ones, you can see how they are. But at least this lets me click on it. Let's me see that it works. Subscribe it on IonTunes and Android. We have our links in here for that, smr.us. You can download the file from here directly if you want. But that's it. It's all set and done. The files are published. People can now download it. And that's a process. Not that hard. When I'm doing this, not actually recording it. This is, I don't know, 15 minutes, 10 minutes after a show of processing, because we have it so templated and run through it. But hopefully this is helpful and can get you kind of a process. One is going to be helpful for us because if any time I'm unavailable to edit, this is our documented editing process. And if you're wanting to edit a podcast or if you have some suggestions to make this smoother and whatnot, go ahead and let me know. But this is a real basic how to get the podcast editing done inside of, well, I'm using all Linux for this in Caden Live in Audacity. So thanks for watching. If you like the content here, like and subscribe.