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From the archives: Julie Angel
From Constraints with Julie Angel… What perspectives and approaches can podcast creators adopt from fields like anthropology, filmmaking, and sound design to improve their craft? Julie Angel describes herself as …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @podtalk)

What the schedule costs
When this conversation was recorded, Gabrielle Pitman was a songwriter four seasons into a podcast, and had burned out on it. Between the third and fourth seasons, Pitman stopped for …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @podtalk)

CastPulse: Independent Podcaster/YouTuber Production Management (macOS)
Hi everyone, I’m John Irvine, a software product manager in Virginia who enjoys building useful Mac apps. I recently released CastPulse, a production planner designed specifically for independent podcasters …
(In category Introductions, last updated by @john.irvine)

What I Might Choose
In 2021, Linda McLachlan described a habit she had fallen into without deciding to. Her podcast was built around guests telling the stories of their lives, and, she said, “I ask …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @openandcurious)


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An order of operations for cleaning up interview audio (so cleanup doesn’t make it worse)
Took me longer than I’d like to admit to learn this: the order you clean spoken-word audio in matters as much as the tools you use. Here’s the …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @Chris)

Hi, I’m Ken. I built The Podcast App, a free RSS podcast player, and I’d like podcasters’ feedback
Hi everyone, I’m Ken from Magnolia Apps. I build The Podcast App, a free podcast player for iPhone, Apple Watch and Android. I’m posting here because this is …
(In category Introductions, last updated by @KenMagnoliaApps)

Hi, I’m building Denoisr for podcast recording cleanup
Hi, I’m building Denoisr, a tool for cleaning up existing podcast recordings and other audio or video files. It can reduce background noise, room hum, and echo, then produce …
(In category Introductions, last updated by @craigconstantine)

CastPulse: Independent Podcaster/YouTuber Production Management (macOS)
Hi everyone, I’m John Irvine, a software product manager in Virginia who enjoys building useful Mac apps. I recently released CastPulse, a production planner designed specifically for independent podcasters …
(In category Introductions, last updated by @john.irvine)

Granting the 95 Percent
Sam Ardery mediates disputes for a living and teaches law students. The story Ardery told in 2022, after thirty-nine years of marriage, went back about twenty-five years, to a bad stretch …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @openandcurious)