Spoken Word and Podcasts

Whether you are producing audiobooks, podcasts, or read-out-loud stories, spoken word projects often have to produce a lot of content with a limited amount of time and resources. While some projects, such as audio dramas, might be more reflective of what is experienced in a typical motion picture workflow, it’s more common to see longer-form work that benefits from having less manual work performed. For example, in a film that might run 90 minutes, it’s expected that the re-recordist mixer uses a light amount of dynamic control and manually adjusts the volume to produce a more “natural” sounding result. When listening to a round table format podcast, the listener expects a more “radio broadcast” type sound, where the voices are heavily compressed and consistent across the hosts. It’s also common for this kind of content to have quicker turnarounds and smaller budgets, so finding efficiencies will make this work...