Audio & Podcasting
Audio Editing & Post-Production
Polish Any Recording to Broadcast Quality
12 lessons4 modules9h 0m durationbeginner level
About this course
This course walks through every stage of audio post-production used by professional sound editors: cleaning noisy location recordings, sculpting tone with EQ, controlling dynamics with compression and limiting, and delivering files that meet LUFS targets for streaming and broadcast. You will work with real-world session examples in Audacity, Adobe Audition, and Reaper, learning the underlying signal-processing principles so the skills transfer across any DAW. By the end, you will be able to take any recorded track — podcast interview, voiceover, dialogue — and deliver a polished, standard-compliant file with confidence.
Curriculum
Module 1: Understanding the Audio Post-Production Chain
- How Audio Post-Production Works: Signal Flow and GoalsPreview
- Reading Waveforms and Spectrograms🔒
- Setting Up Your Session and Capturing Room Tone🔒
Module 2: Noise Reduction and Audio Repair
- Broadband Noise Reduction: Reducing Hiss Without Artifacts🔒
- Removing Hum, Clicks, and Mouth Noise🔒
- Evaluating Your Clean Track Before Processing🔒
Module 3: EQ, Compression, and De-essing
- EQ for Speech: Clarity, Warmth, and Problem Frequencies🔒
- Compression for Dialogue: Controlling Dynamic Range🔒
- De-essing and Noise Gating🔒
Module 4: Limiting, Mastering, and Delivery
- Loudness Standards: LUFS, True Peak, and Platform Requirements🔒
- Limiting and Final Loudness Normalization🔒
- Export Formats, Quality Control, and Client Delivery🔒
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