024 - Multitrack: Why should I record in multitrack, whatever that is?

27/01/2021 8 min

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Episode Synopsis

Recording with each voice on a seperate audio track makes your life so much easier when editing your show. Find out why. 
I used a new recording setup today. My first recording (for this show) using a laptop and external mic. It turned out a little to much bass. I've been recording with a phone for so long that my mic skills are rusty!
PRODUCTION NOTES
Mic: Samson Q2U with USB connection
Recording Device: Dell G7 Laptop
Recording Software: Audacity
Recording location: Dining room at my dining table. With my laptop behind my mic to minimize the noise from my hard-drive and laptop fan. 
Recording format: 16 bit WAV file
Samplerate: 44100Hz
Editing app: Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file