Podcast Production's Roles that doesn't really explain what it is!
The podcast industry is getting bigger by day, by the minute! They are millions and millions of episodes released a day! However, how many do you know who is behind the scenes? Here is a breakdown of all the roles that could go into a podcast production no matter how big or how small they are, size doesn't matter!!
Now, some people have multiple roles in a smaller production, or some people just like to do everything themselves! Also, some of the roles here, you don't really need them depends on the format of your podcast!
Now, some people have multiple roles in a smaller production, or some people just like to do everything themselves! Also, some of the roles here, you don't really need them depends on the format of your podcast!
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1. Recording Engineer (Local and Remote)
Truth: The person that is probably the most involved in pre-production discussion. Deciding the methods of capturing sounds, choosing gear, involve creatively with the producer, director, and showrunner on how should a person sound, an episode should sound, or what should be captured.
Also probably the savviest when it comes to gear, cause any technical issue arises, you have to troubleshoot it on the spot in a short time, while entertaining the hosts, guests, and producers.
2. Editor
Truth: The editor syncs all the tracks together, and moves the stories along. If it's fiction, sometimes they're responsible for looking for "pre-made" sound effects as well!
3. Mixing Engineers
Truth: In Podcasting World, most of the time, the editor double as a mixing engineer mainly cause of budget restrictions, also, no one really knows mixing engineers exist, unless you're in the audio world whether it's music or post-production.
What they do is, they take every track of the guests and hosts, mix them together and make sure one is not louder than the other, and when there is crosstalk, the mixing engineer needs to decide who should be the primary talker and make them louder.
However, in fiction productions, Mixing Engineers work with directors on the creativity of how the episode should sound in the final product, blending in music, sound effects, and dialogue!
4. Sound Designers (mainly in audio fiction)
Truth: Work with the director to create certain recognizable sounds or sounds that don't exist before. The best example would be T-Rex in Jurassic Park!
5. Mastering Engineer (Sometimes also known as Post Production Engineer)
Truth: Mastering Engineer is also another role that not everyone knows about. They take the final product from Mixing Engineer, process it, and bring the volume to the "Standard" or what I call loud enough for consumers, and also make sure every episode sounds similar in terms of volume. After they did the processing, they have to encode the audio files into different formats for different distribution platforms!
6. The Director (Usually Audio Fictions Only)
Truth: Director works with everyone from recording engineers, editors, mixing engineers, and the talents to realize his creative visions.
7. Foley Artist (Usually in Audio Fictions Only)
Truth: Foley is an art, the people that make them is called Foley artist. What they do is, they perform, physically the sound effects in the film, or in this case in the podcast. If the podcast call for footsteps (Cause usually they're so soft, they're not even picked up by the microphone.) They have to imitate the movement in the studio, and record just footsteps! Here's a great video about Foley Artist:
8. Music Editor/ Composer (Usually in Audio Fiction Only)
Truth: most of the time, depends on the budget, these are usually carried out by the same people. They write the music for the episodes of shows in general, and then they edit them and insert them when necessary!
9. Producers
Truth: That's partly true! Producers bring all the talent like directors, recording engineers, mastering engineers, guests, and hosts to make the project successful. At the same time, they deal with budget, schedules, social media, and most often or not, marketing as well!
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