Q: What if I have 2 separate files?
1 solo audio file for the podcast host and another 1 for the interviewee...
Can I first merge and edit them with something like Audacity... Then BounceCast is the last tool that fixes sound quality (normalizes audio levels and trims out noise)? Is that the use case?
Or do I first have to clean up the raw, solo speaker files before editing them with Audacity/Adobe Audition?
Anssi_BounceCast
May 14, 2024A: Exactly! That's the way to do it right now :)
"Can I first merge and edit them with something like Audacity... Then BounceCast is the last tool that fixes sound quality (normalizes audio levels and trims out noise)? Is that the use case?"
In response to this one!
allancaegSounds great!
Now, will it normalize the volume since I've combined two speaker files (host and interviewee) with a tool like Audacity?
Say the interviewee's microphone is much louder than the host's. I can run the edited file via BounceCast as the last audio quality clean-up step. Will BounceCast's magic normalize volume levels so interviewer and interviewee get the same volume levels?
Hey! If you want the best evening out of the quality, run both audio tracks separately so they get mastered to the -18 LUFS target BounceCast does, and only then combine the two!
That is the best way to get high quality, at this point. We are also working on a single track version, where the algorithms identify two highly different sources, and do laser focused segment-based processing.
Hope this helped!
Anssi