Nearly 12 million Canadian adults (36% of the population) listen to podcasts at least once a month (www.thepodcastexchange.ca). Podcasts have emerged as the top medium to share your knowledge, passions, and stories to a wide audience. Available on all major streaming services and podcast-specific platforms, it has never been easier to reach new listeners and target audiences. However, creating and delivering professional quality content requires the right equipment, technical skills and training, a dedicated space, and a lot of time.     

High quality audio and music is the most important aspect of listener retention - listeners may experience auditory fatigue from untamed frequencies or ear strain from unedited or poorly edited dialog. While it is possible to achieve good results on your own, most podcasts who want to reach a wide audience are seeking professional audio engineers to help improve listener count, provide a high quality listening experience for their audience, and save countless hours of editing and research.

Yellow Door Studio is equipped with industry standard audio hardware and software to handle your podcast needs - from multi-speaker interviews, call-ins and guest spots. The studio seamlessly transforms from a music studio to a tabled interview style, comfortable couch layout, or desktop setup with ease. Having a dedicated audio engineer set up, monitor, edit, and host your podcast means you can focus on your content instead of the technical aspects of your production.

See how Yellow Door Studio can help you transform your podcast idea into professional content - from planning, recording, editing, and hosting. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or booking availability. 

Podcast Recording at Yellow Door Studio

Plan Your Content 

• Potential guests, content, and interview questions - new ones will start to occur naturally as your podcast takes shape

• Sharing the interview questions with your guests prior to recording helps them feel comfortable, prepare talking points, and reduces the amount of editing required

• Recording multiple episodes in a single recording session saves travel and scheduling time

• Create an episode summary for each episode to help listeners connect to your content and generate interest

The Editing Process

• This is when the real magic occurs! Eliminating pauses, breaths, stutters, filler words like ‘um’ and ‘you know’ so your conversation has a natural flow and your audience stays engaged

• A 30-minute episode has an average of over 500 edit points

• Professional audio plugins and tools ensure that your podcast sounds clear everywhere - in the car, through headphones, or while cooking dinner

• Eliminate clicks from saliva, reduce ambient noise, and get rid of harsh esses and plosions that can distract or fatigue listeners

Hosting

• Podcasts aren’t like music - they aren’t stored on streaming services’ servers - you need a host site

• Hosting sites offer a variety of tools to get your podcast heard, but often take a lot of time and money to maximize utility

• I can handle all of the hosting process, analytics, and backend work to make sure your podcast appears on all of the major streaming and podcast libraries

• Episodes will be uploaded according to each hosting site’s delivery specifications to make sure you know exactly how your content will sound before it reaches your audience    

The Recording Process

• Recording equipment is very expensive, particular, and takes countless hours of experience to use properly

• Yellow Door Studio is equipped with the equipment and environment you need to host several guests at a time. Multiple layout options allow for maximum comfort depending on the number of guests

• Having a dedicated audio engineer to set up and monitor during your recording session saves hours of time and helps prevent frustrating editing headaches down the road

• Having a treated recording space reduces background noise, interruptions, and atmospheric noise like HVAC or hums that can be difficult to eliminate from audio files