"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement

Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by ghaff on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:12PM (#39293649)

Basic video is good enough for a lot of purposes. But with minimal gear and software, I can clean up most speakers with very little work in audio (and there are better AI cleansing tools these days as well). For a given quality level, the bar is much lower for audio only.

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:21PM (#39293743)

This really isn't true. Mixing/mastering if you want to target:

  * in ear devices
  * vehicle audio systems
  * phone speakers
  * laptops
  * mid-range home stereo systems
  * high end home stereo/studio monitoring

is quite complex to get right, and generally you can't optimize for more than one at a time. That's even more so if you actually buy into the "immersive audio" hype, where playback is not even stereo anymore.

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by ghaff on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:40PM (#39294000)

Audio can certainly get complex. But per the upthread query I'd argue that it's still easier to get understandable audio in an interview in a quiet location than it is to shoot video, especially outside of a studio setting.

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:58PM (#39294234)

and yet ... if the video quality is sub-par people care <--- this much --->, whereas if the audio is sub-par people care <----------- this much ------------->

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by ghaff on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:57PM (#39296493)

Fair enough. For people speaking, we'll tolerate mediocre video with good audio over vice versa.

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