Mixing Your Podcast Together: Adding an Intro and Outro

This is a slight aside in the starting a podcast series of blog posts because Allison wanted a few tips on how to add her intro and outro to her podcast and make it sound more seamless.

In this video I show how to use Audacity to mix several different tracks together. In this case it is the podcast intro and outro with the main body of the podcast but it could also be used to mix together different elements of your podcast or to create other audio productions:

donkeyI then sent Allison away to do some homework and this is the mix she created (little did I know when she asked me to test her dedicated Skype answering machine that she would use the audio as a test):

[note to self: never leave silly recorded messages on anything]

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Creating this video then made me think about something else you need to know about producing your audio (actually 2 things) that will improve the audio quality. So there’ll be another video tomorrow before we move onto your podcast hosting options.

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