Ear Training for Podcast Producers

Your ears are the most important part of you when it comes to podcast audio production. And it is possible to develop your critical listening skills so that you can identify audio qualities and problems quickly and accurately. Of course correctly identifying a problem is necessary in order to correctly fix it. By the way, there are many types of problems that can occur when producing audio, and learning how to handle them all will make you a bulletproof engineer 😉

It all comes down to focused practice, really.

Just by living life you’ve already had a lot of experience hearing different audio in different places, etc. Now, to develop deeper perception of frequencies, amplitudes and characteristics you just have to start listening more intently.

For starters, here’s one good exercise you can do:

Listen to one of your favorite songs on computer speakers, then listen to the same song on earbuds, and then through the car stereo, etc. *Notice the difference in sound when listening in these different places.

What do you hear?

*My blog post on this topic — https://podcastengineeringschool.com/daily-goody-ear-training/