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Today
on
five
minute
Monday,
you'll
learn
what
clipping
is
and
how
to
keep
it
from
destroying
your
podcast
episodes.
Welcome
to
five
minute
Monday
where
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best
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and
strategies
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Now
this
week
we
are
kicking
off
a
four
week
mini
series
around
rookie
editing
mistakes.
These
are
common
mistakes
that
you
hear
in
new
podcasts,
that
tract
from
the
listener
experience
and
stunt
your
podcasts
growth,
which
is
not
what
we
want
at
all,
right?
But
there's
good
news
because
each
of
these
rookie
editing
mistakes
has
a
very
easy
fix.
And
today
we're
going
to
talk
about
what
happens
when
your
audio
recording
is
too
loud
leading
to
distortion.
Now
when
you
set
up
your
microphone
to
record
an
episode,
it's
important
to
set
your
gain
or
volume
level
appropriately.
If
it's
too
quiet,
you'll
have
trouble
hearing
your
audio
when
you
go
to
edit
it
and
you
might
not
even
see
the
wave
forms
at
all,
but
you
also
don't
want
to
be
too
loud
because
then
you'll
experience
what's
called
clipping.
Now
clipping
is
when
the
volume
of
your
microphone
input
is
so
loud
that
the
wave
forms
extend
beyond
the
limits
of
the
track
in
your
recording
software.
You'll
also
notice
when
you're
clipping,
if
you
are
using
an
audio
recorder
or
a
mixer
that
has
a
level
meter,
you
know
the
green,
yellow,
red
level
meter
that
shows
the
volume
of
your
voice
in
terms
of
decibel
range.
You'll
notice
that
your
clipping
when
an
extends
into
the
red,
either
towards
the
far
right
or
the
top
of
that
meter.
And
so
you
don't
want
clipping
clipping
destroys
your
audio
and
it's
virtually
impossible
to
fix
and
make
it
sound
good.
But
there's
two
things
you
can
do.
There's
two
things
you
can
do
to
avoid
clipping.
The
first
and
the
easiest
is
to
adjust
the
gain
on
your
microphone,
mixer
or
interface.
So
this
is
where
you
are
manually
controlling
how
loud
your
microphone
is
from
the
interface
that
you're
using
or
on
the
microphone
itself.
And
so
what
you're
aiming
for
is
for
your
normal
voice
to
stay
comfortably
in
the
green
slash
yellow
range.
So
on
the
level
meter,
this
will
be
between
negative
12
and
negative
six
decibels
or
dbs.
And
so
go
ahead
and
speak
into
your
microphone,
do
some
test
recordings,
looking
at
the
level
meter
and
adjust
your
volume
until
you
hit
that
sweet
spot
between
negative
12
and
negative
six
at
the
loudest
parts
of
your
audio
recording.
Now
the
second
thing
you
can
do
is
adjust
the
volume
inputs
in
your
recording
software.
So
if
you
use
garage
bands
on
the
left
side
of
the
track,
you'll
see
a
volume
slider
where
you
can
adjust
the
input
volume.
Audacity
also
has
an
input
volume
slider
for
your
microphone,
for
your
audio
inputs.
And
there's
a
little
icon
of
a
microphone
right
next
to
this
slider.
So
if
you're
going
to
adjust
it
in
your
recording
software,
then
you
want
to
speak
into
the
microphone,
look
at
that
level
meter
that
showing
your
voice
as
you
speak,
and
adjust
your
volume
accordingly
to
hit
that
sweet
spot
of
negative
12
to
negative
six
decibels.
And
so
for
both
of
these
techniques,
either
adjusting
the
gain
on
your
microphone
mixer
or
interface
or
doing
it
in
your
recording
software,
you'll
want
to
do
a
couple
test
recordings
and
then
when
you've
dialed
in
your
ideal
levels,
you
want
to
write
them
down
or
remember
them
or
capture
them
somehow
for
next
time.
So
when
you
go
to
do
your
next
episode,
you
already
know
that
your
audio
is
going
to
be
right
in
that
sweet
spikes
.
You
know
where
your
gain
knob
needs
to
be
and
you
know
where
your
volume
slider
needs
to
beat
.
And
a
general
rule
of
thumb
just
to
keep
in
mind,
record
softer
than
you
think
that
you
need
to.
All
right,
you
can
always
add
a
bit
of
gain
in
editing,
but
you
can't
get
rid
of
the
distortion
that
comes
along
with
clipping.
And
so
if
you
notice
that
your
audio
gets
really
loud
and
really
soft
record
on
the
softer
end
of
the
spectrum,
be
a
little
more
conservative
because
you
can
always
boost
it
a
little
bit
later
on
if
you
have
to
.
That's
it
for
today.
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