Here is a series of files and a description of the Miniterm 2020 “Introduction to BroadcastingPodcasting” class. All tools you need to work with Audacity in the classroom are available here, so it might be a good idea to have this open in a browser window while you work.

• Glossary of Terms and Shortcut Sheet
• A Place Where Files Can Be Uploaded

First: A discussion of how to properly not eat a microphone and sound like you know what you're doing.

1. Broadcast Safe Language
2. Peaking, Overdriving, and Headroom

1. Settings and Preferences That Will Be Useful
2. Lossy vs. Lossless Encoding
3. Skills
   1. Tracks
   2. Zooming in and Out
   3. Panning
   4. Levels
   5. Clip Detection
   6. Copying and Pasting
   7. Saving and Basic Encoding

A long and drawn-out discussion of compression. This is an annoying one, but if you can apply it there will be much understanding and a lot less pain.

1. The Compression Wars
2. A Conceptual Understanding of dBFS
3. The Concept of Noise Floor

1. UI Continued
   1. Working with Multiple Tracks
      1. Discussion of Multitrack vs. Single Track Recording
      2. Mute and Solo
      3. Sync Lock vs. Free
   2. Amplification
   3. Compression

You've used the studio already, but now let's talk about how it works and how you should be using it.

1. UI Continued Pt. 3
   1. Importing Audio
   2. Fades and the Envelope Tool
   3. Discussion of Effects
      1. De-essing
      2. Noise Gating
2. Rendering and Mixdown
3. Lossy vs. Lossless reexplained
4. Metadata

What actually is podcasting? It's not just recording.

1. Podcasting
   1. Websites
   2. RSS Feed
   3. Aggregators

1. Review of Things We're Having Problems With
2. Edge Cases
   1. DC Offset
3. Whatever comes up.

Lossy encoding methods such as MP3 will throw out some data in order to get a smaller file size. Lossless methods such as FLAC do not throw out quite so much information. For archiving, FLAC is better than MP3 because repeated encoding will cause artifacts, which are noises we don't want.

MP3 Files:

1. MP3 After Initial Save
2. MP3 After 10 Saves
3. MP3 After 20 Saves
4. MP3 After 50 Saves
5. MP3 After 100 Saves

FLAC Files:

1. FLAC After Initial Save
2. FLAC After 10 Saves
3. FLAC After 20 Saves
4. FLAC After 50 Saves
5. FLAC After 100 Saves

1. View > Show > Clipping – set to on
2. Edit > Preferences
   1. Import/Export
      1. “Used Advanced Mixing Options” is selected
      2. “Show Metadata Tags editor before export” is checked
3. Quality
   1. Under Sampling, “Default Sample Rate” is set to 48000 Hz

These can be modified as needed to fit the recording, but these are helpful defaults.

1. Normalization: 1.0 dB
2. Compression:
   1. Threshold: -20db
   2. Noisefloor: -35db
   3. Ratio: 5:1
   4. Compression based on peaks is not selected
   5. Make-up gain for 0 dB after compressing is selected