The trouble with editing podcasts in Logic is that it’s designed for musicians.
#ALTERNATIVES TO AUDIO HIJACK PRO#
I need to explore other ways to work the app into my daily routine, but for 2018, BetterTouchTool has been a big help when I edit in Logic Pro X. I’m including BetterTouchTool as part of the podcasting section because that’s how I use it more often than not. There are a couple of new features that might be useful to me, but I’m happy with how the app currently works, so for now, I’m not upgrading.īetterTouchTool. IZotope got upgraded to version 7.0 in 2018, but I haven’t updated yet. It takes 15-20 minutes to process a 30-minute episode, but with batch processing, I can prepare the show notes or do other work until the tracks are finished and ready for me to start editing in Logic. I’ve set the filters up as a batch process so I can open our tracks, click process, and come back later when iZotope is finished. I spent a lot of time in 2017 setting up two sets of filters that are customized for each of our voices and recording environments to improve the quality of our tracks. Once they’ve been loudness matched, I run both Federico and I’s AppStories tracks through iZotope. Although there are other ways to loudness match tracks, Audition’s matching is superior to everything else I’ve tried so in my workflow, that is the single task delegated to Audition.
#ALTERNATIVES TO AUDIO HIJACK FULL#
Adobe Audition is a full audio editor, but I like Logic better for that task. The first step in putting together AppStories each week is to loudness match the tracks.
Getting ready to record AppStories using Audio Hijack.Īdobe Audition. When I’m not using it to record podcasts, I occasionally use Audio Hijack to record live shows of my favorite bands that are streamed on the web. I’m also fond of the fact that I can record the Skype call as a backup simultaneously with my end of the call, which I then combine with other tracks when editing. What’s especially nice about Audio Hijack is the simple, customizable, node-based system for setting up sessions. I have different sessions set up for each show I do that drop the final recording into Dropbox where it’s shared with my co-hosts. I’ve used Audio Hijack since the very first podcast I recorded. Rogue Amoeba’s audio apps are all rock-solid. With a fast wired Internet connection and Skype going, it’s rare that the nearly 5,000 miles separating Federico and me causes lag or poor sound, which is remarkable, and why we still use it.Īudio Hijack. The app does far more than I need and Microsoft still seems intent on transforming it into a social network, but I keep using it because the sound quality is better than any alternative I’ve tried. If there were better, simpler alternatives, I’d use them, but often there aren’t. One theme that’s common to many of the tools I use for podcasting is that they do far more than I need for the job. Unless you’re recording by yourself or with others in the same room, you need a way to communicate with the others on your podcast. That said, of course, I tinkered with it a little.
There are several steps in the production process and a couple of complex apps involved, so there needs to be a very good reason to change the setup before I’ll tinker. My podcasting toolchain has barely changed from last year.