Published Sep 13, 2024

Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)

Hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo dive into their innovative take on community engagement via Zulip, share insider tips on their podcast production process, and explore the benefits and challenges of self-hosting, all while gearing up for the All Things Open 2024 conference.
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  • Production Insights

    and share their podcast production insights, emphasizing the importance of reliability and availability in their workflow. They discuss how they handle episode requests and the significance of fulfilling listener requests, even if it takes years. Adam finds it fascinating how their routine processes can be intriguing to others, especially when explaining them to new podcast producers 1.

    You don't know what you know until you try and teach other people basically, right. You know, and then they're like, wow. I mean, to us, it's logical and simple because we've repeated it so many times.

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    Recording Techniques

    The team records everything on Riverside FM, a proprietary in-browser technology that they find reliable and efficient. explains their three-step editing process, which includes prepping the audio, content editing, and mastering. They prefer to enjoy the conversation without worrying about timestamping during recording, leaving that task for post-production 2.

    We aren't doing anything. I think Riverside has a mark clip button right there that we could use to, like, set a marker, but we don't do that.

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    Editing Workflow

    Their editing workflow is meticulous, involving multiple stages and tools like Adobe Audition and Dropbox for file management. highlights the role of their editors, Jason and Brian, in refining the content and ensuring high-quality output. The final steps include mastering, adding chapters, ads, and voiceovers, and then publishing the episode 3.

    We mix down a wav file and an MP3 file, and we upload them to our website. Hit publish, baby.

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