Online Podcast Editing Tools

Online Podcast Editing Tools

Online Tools For Basic Podcast Editing

So you’re not ready to invest in a digital audio workspace of your own at this point in time, or perhaps you aren’t comfortable enough with the one you bought. Understandable, everyone works in their own time and within their own budget. Fear not, if you are saving your dimes and nickels and your piggy bank isn’t quite full, there are plenty of basic podcast editing tools online.Before we dive deeper, I just want to say that these tools will in no way replace a solid DAW. Ultimately mastering your DAW of choice will push your podcast production to new heights. These basic podcast editing tools are a great jumping off point. They can accomplish unique things and are almost entirely automated. 

What Do These Online Tools Do?

Some of the online tools we'll be outlining below do a variety of automated editing and mixing tasks. While not perfect, some of the things these tools do are pretty remarkable, and I expect their algorithms to keep getting better over time. Here are some features you can expect when you use some of these tools for your podcast.

  • Leveling - Evening out the variations of the audio levels in your podcast

  • Background Noise Reduction - Reducing white noise and ambient noise i.e buzzing, hissing, and humming in your recordings

  • Stitching together Multitracks - Auto combining the individual dialogue tracks in your session

  • Publishing to podcast hosts - Releasing your episodes to Apple, Spotify, etc.. with the click of a button (not editing related, but this is a built-in feature of one of the tools listed below)

  • Audio Quality Enhancement - The use of EQ, Compression, and Limiters, to smooth out unwanted frequencies, and boost the overall level of your podcast to podcast loudness standards

  • De-Reverb - Reducing of the amount of reverb, or slapback in your recordings. This happens when a recording takes place in a space that isn't acoustically treated. In your podcast recordings, you'll be able to hear the sound of voices bouncing off the wall and reverberating

  • De-Bleed - Cutting down on the bleed effect that happens when a microphone picks up someone else's voice in the same room

 Alitu has been designed to make your podcast sound like it was professionally recorded, edited and mixed. With its automated processing tools you don't need any technical knowhow to make your podcast sound clean and crisp. This means you can focus solely on creating great content.

 Auphonic touts itself as an "audio autopilot" for podcasts. The Auphonic team has developed an automatic audio post-production web service to make your podcast or other media content sound better. They do this by using A.I. and signal processing techniques that create smart algorithms. Basically all the hard editing and mixing work is done for you.

 Descript is perhaps the most powerful tool of the three. It's a full fledged audio and video editor that functions like a word document.

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