Clean Cut Audio | The Science of Sound and the Art of Great Podcast Audio: 25. How to Become an Amazing Podcast Engineer (without a degree in audio production)

Jul 2, 2020

Something I've been seeing recently in Facebook groups and forums is people claiming they can't be great at audio because they don't have a degree or formal education in audio engineering. If that's you, let me offer some personal insight. I'm one of those chumps who spent 4 years and a TON of money on a degree in audio engineering, and I've lived to regret it. The REAL learning happened after college when I was working with some very experienced and prolific audio engineers who, guess what, never had ANY formal education in audio engineering.

The thing that really took my production to the next level was watching professionals do what they do best. To this day, I still spends hours every week, sometimes every day on several different paid platforms where I can watch audio engineers work and talk about their processes.

In this episode I offer suggestions on how you can learn how to be GREAT at audio and produce incredible podcasts without any type of formal education, including a new service I'll be offering called MixLab. Be sure to check it out in the links below!

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Links:

Clean Cut Audio Mixlab

Podcast Engineering School

Podcast Engineering Show

Taylor Larson

Instagram from my Former Life as a Woodworker

Nail the Mix

My Signal Chain

Hardware:

Audio Interface: Apogee Ensemble

Microphone: Shure SM7b