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Editing conversationsEPISODE 34 · Editing conversations
The sound between the words
With Sam Rivera, audio producer
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The sound between the words
Sam Rivera · Audio producer
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Sam RiveraGuest
At the end of a recording, I ask everyone to stay still for thirty seconds while I record the room. That room tone gives me something consistent to place under an edit. Absolute digital silence can make the cut more noticeable than the background sound we were trying to remove.
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I listen to the edit as a conversation before I clean up every breath. Removing every pause can flatten the rhythm of a speaker. Room tone helps join an edit; it does not turn two separate answers into one quotation.
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