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PES 149: Tom Kelly

The Podcast Engineering Show
The Podcast Engineering Show
Episode • Sep 26, 2019 • 1h 14m

My guest is Tom Kelly - audio engineer, podcast producer and editor at Clean Cut Audio. Check out his own shows - Reminiscent, Podcast Me Anything, and Podcarnage.

We discussed almost a million things, including:

  • Shure SM7b
  • Apogee Ensemble
  • Pro Tools 12
  • Double enders
  • AKG Perception 420
  • Macbook Pro (maxed out)
  • Waves WLM meter on Master Buss to determine LUFS level.
  • Noise Shaping 1, 2, or 3 dither - when downsampling from 24 bit to 16 bit. MP3 - 128kbps stereo,
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Kensington SlimBlade trackball
  • Strip silence, threshold of -29 db
  • RX6 voice de-noise
  • RX6 de-reverb
  • Waves de-esser
  • FabFilter Pro-Q 3
  • Waves Vocal Rider
  • Waves API 2500
  • All vocals sent to stereo aux
  • LinMB
  • Maxim (only catching clips/peaks, not actually doing any dynamic work)
  • Dither noise-shaping 3
  • WAV files: 16 bit / 44.1 kHz
  • MP3s: 128kbps stereo
  • Yamaha HS7s
  • ATH-M50 headphones
  • Squadcast
  • Klipsch earbuds

Thanks for being a great guest, Tom!

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