Complete guide
How to produce a podcast, from recording to publishing
The whole chain in five steps, each a deep-dive guide: capture a clean voice, record remote guests, edit and clean, set the loudness, and publish to every platform.
By Hanna Eng·Audio engineer, Abbey Road Institute Paris
Producing a podcast is a chain, and each link decides the quality of the next. Capture a clean voice and the editing is light. Edit well and the loudness pass is simple. Hit the loudness target and publishing just works. This guide maps the whole workflow and links to a focused, factual deep-dive for each step.
The complete workflow, step by step
- 1Capture your voiceGear, mic technique and room treatment to record a clean voice at the source, where it is cheapest to get right.Read the guide→
- 2Record remote guestsThe double-ender method records each guest locally, so audio quality no longer depends on the strength of the connection.Read the guide→
- 3Edit and cleanCut the content first, then de-noise, de-reverb and de-ess in the order that actually works.Read the guide→
- 4Set the loudnessNormalize to -16 LUFS and -1 dBTP so every episode and every guest sits at the same level.Read the guide→
- 5PublishExport the right MP3, build the RSS feed, and submit to Apple Podcasts and Spotify without rejection.Read the guide→
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