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Auralphonic Episode 5: Sexy Podfic. Dated: April 2015.

It really depends on the person. Some people don’t get as embarrassed when they don’t try to voice act, add heavy breathing, moan, etc. Some people don’t feel embarrassed unless they’re reading something they actually like (one host gave an example of reading a particular kink). Others get in the reading zone and may not even be physically affected, even if they are when listening to other podfic. There’s an NC-17 Podfic Advice Document, but it didn’t really seem very helpful on my read through.

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Auralphonic Episode 36: How We Choose What to Podfic. Dated: January 2018.

Various reasons: Drawn to certain authors (writing style), or permission factors in (waiting for replies vs blanket permission [BP] and mostly relying on FPS List). [FPS List = Fanworks Permission List organizes Fanlore’s BP page by fandom.] Some people have done a lot of outreach with particular fandoms. Pod farr (riff on pon farr from Star Trek), or the excitement of needing to record Right Now. Changes in when you can record and how long you can record (f’ex, one host can’t record for more than one hour at a time these days). Personal reasons (only read below a certain word count, liking certain tropes, doing different voices, etc.). The one host makes a point of doing relatively short podfic that match environmental factors (f’ex, it’s raining where you are, so you do a fic that involves rain).

You don’t always love the fic you read, though. Challenges can have requirements (Podbang, ITPE (Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange), Podfic Bingo, Amplificathon, etc.). Some collaborative challenges may involve working with other podficcers and cross fandoms. Some charity exchanges [listeners donate to XYZ, podficcers will read certain requested fandoms and such] also might not be what you like (or even be a fandom you’re in, officially speaking).

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Auralphonic Episode 34: Pre- and Post-Production. Dated: November 2017.

Vocal warm-up tips, and some commonly repeated advice (like avoid dairy right before). Experience with podfic betas. From the notes: Avoiding Mouth Noises in Podfic, and Forvo (Pronunciation Dictionary).

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Auralphonic Episode 15: Audacity Tips and Tricks. Dated: February 2016. (It’s possible this predates the Audacity update that integrated the MP3 Encoder plugin for exporting MP3 files.)

Equalization gets rid of certain decibel ranges. Several presets are already under Effects. (An example tutorial from the notes uses this to get rid of pops - Tutorial: Pops, Pop Screens, And Equalizing.)

You can make labels (f’ex, fix pronunciation of X).

You can go to Preferences to see the Keyboard Menu and change what your keyboard shortcuts will do. (Labels might still think you’re trying to do a shortcut when typing certain letters.)

Plugin to download to add an Effect → NoiseGate filter. Set a decibel level to automatically filter out if you go below (removes noise clicks).

Leave 5 to 10 seconds of silence at the beginning to make Noise Removal better. You can also run it more than once if need be.

The one host uses Auphonics to equalize volume and for noise removal.

Someone found adding Bass Boost helps make their quiet voice sound better.

When dealing with multi-voice projects, you can split track to stereo (to edit one person’s bit) and export the file as mono.

Sync Lock Tracks. If you cut something from one track, it will cut from the others highlighted. You can also use this technique to add music in a separate track.

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Auralphonic Episode 28: How Platforms Affect Podfic. Dated: April 2017.

I ignored the LiveJournal stuff at the beginning, tbh, but there’s a tie-in with the one host’s vidding experience and YouTube. My Little Pony podficcers are on YT, but more communities that the hosts can think of don’t tend to use YT (including copyright issues, especially for those who include music).

Through trial and error, Tumblr has an upload limit around 10 - 15 MB, which probably can’t handle more than a 10 - 15 minute podfic. Most people don’t host solely on tumblr because it seems more based around songs than podfic itself.

The bit about Flash isn’t true for AO3 anymore (episode is from 2017, and the phasing out of Flash happened in 2020). This platform has affected where some people choose to host (so they can easily post to AO3), coming up with podfic posting stuff ([Podfic] Title),  and what they include (some read the content warnings).