PODFICCING TIPS! (For the ones with ADHD or an addiction to efficiency)
- Small changes like choosing smaller rooms, pointing mics directly towards your mouth and avoiding louder fabrics, items when recording can make a BIG difference to audio quality.
- Microphones aren’t at all necessary to podfic but if you are considering purchasing one, small Bluetooth mics as relatively easy to use and cheap to buy. If ur super committed to the podfic game, or just generally looking for a great microphone, I can personally reccomend the ‘Rode NTUSB USB Microphone’. Its sortaa expensive for hobby equipment but has great multifunction for recording audio, such as podficcing, singing and instruments.
- Audacity is everyone's favourite audio editing software for a good reason. It’s free, easy to use and find online tutorials. If your the kinda poddficcer who lack the patience to individually edit recordings, I edit out audio as I go. This works also IPhone voice memos. If you mess up a line, simple cut out the area and try again! NOTE: this only really works if you are recording on your own. In order to ensure the audio is a smooth as possible, make sure you always start the new recordings at the start of a sentence, so sudden differences in vocal tone can be avoided.
- GET PERMISSION!! It’s always better when creating fanworks to ask authors, artists or other creators when using their work. The exception is of course, if they have blanket permissions! There is a Ao3 skin which allows you to automatically see which authors allow blanket permissions on their site, which can make this process a lot easier; https://github.com/BrickGrass/Blanket-Permission-Highlighter
- I always add link to the podfics back onto ao3, so that they are easily available and credited
- There are range of platforms to host fanworks that you create but as a creator that uses Youtube and Spotify only, I can highly recommend them as being simple to use! Podfics can be uploaded onto Spotify in particular using hosting sites such as Anchor, which is my personal choice.
