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Unmute Presents - Live To Recording Process Transcript

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Marty: [0:05] So Michael, we get tons of questions, especially recently, people ask us about the process and how we edit our shows. Specifically, you know, we do the unmute call every Tuesday. And then once that show is over, we, you know, edit it, publish it, put it out, and we do all those things, you know. So that would be probably a good primer as that's one of the front facing projects that people see. Because of the live show that we do on Tuesday. So why don't we start with walking through and maybe answering some of the people's questions about that process. So what we do is let's say say we start with a live show in Zoom and we broadcast that out to the world and everyone can come that's live and we're doing it straight out. Once we're done with that and we go off the air, then the editing process and everything starts with the backstage and all the behind the scenes magic happens. So why don't you talk about your workflow from that point once we go off the air and Give us a primer on your process.

Michael: [1:27] Yeah, so it starts a little bit before that actually and it starts way back in May I created a zoom room that is always the same and Maybe it was June somewhere around there and the first thing I did as I said always record to the cloud. Being part of ACB community you have to keep a recording on file and everyone's call is recorded So I set it up to automatically record because as we all know I am horrible about remembering to do the things I need to do But that also gives me the added benefit. So let's go back to where you brought us to we get done with the call and then about.

[2:01] 15 ish minutes later. I get an email from zoom that says hey your cloud recording is available You can click this link to download it So I click that link and I download what turns out typically to be three or four different files. Which is the audio and video versions of our call? But the video version is typically black because none of us use video So I just disregard that and the sound quality is going to be a little lower than than people would probably want to listen to. So then the next thing that I do is I grab that audio file that I downloaded and I bring it into Reaper and.

[2:36] I have a Template and Reaper that allows me to trim out the silence very quickly, So for waiting for someone to unmute I can pull that silence out so. So the listeners on the podcast don't have to wait like everyone else had to, to get someone unmuted and to get them on the call. And then I add some compression and I use a tool called RX Isotope Repair Assistant. And that gives us a constant sound that we are sounding like everyone sounds like they're pretty level and voices are good. In Reaper, I render the file to a Dropbox folder, which is tied to my Alphonic account. And I'll talk about Alphonic in a moment. When I render the file, I check a checkbox that says, add this item to a new track, or add rendered content to a new track as an item. And then I render it. And that means that I take the edits that I made in Reaper and I save them as a file. Typically Flac, a lot of people use Wave. You don't want to save at MP3 right now, but ultimately that's where we're going to get to.

Marty: [3:47] Let me stop you right here just for a quick sec because I want to just make sure that people kind of understand this. This is a very important piece that we're forgetting to put in so that people really understand. So the ultimate goal in the end is to make it sound like, we're in the same room, right? So we use Zoom and mostly we use Zoom and its recording features. That's kind of more like an insurance policy and it is actually really good. And we do actually use that a lot of the time. But we also record locally. And so what that means is, I'm recording, locally on my own system, and you're recording locally on your own system. And that's g