Podcasting Through Rose-Colored Glasses & Bunny Ears

PPS3E33 Podcasting Through Rose-Colored Glasses & Bunny Ears - Transcript

[00:00:00] You may call them a frivolous waste of time, but filters and effects on pictures, videos and streams have become a staple of how we communicate, but not in podcasting. Oddly enough, will that change?

[00:00:19] hello and welcome to another podcast. Pontifications with me, Evo, Tara, hashtag no filter because it's really hard to apply filters to audio. [00:00:30] Well, okay. That's that's not true. I mean, there, there are lots of filters on what you're hearing right now, but if you hear the filters I put on my audio, I did a bad job and that's not true for those who apply filters to things like Instagram, tick, tock, even Twitch streams, right?

[00:00:49] Those filters need to be seen. They are done on purpose to fundamentally change things, and everybody knows. Likely by and large that [00:01:00] they have been added. Those are fun filters for those things. Where are the fun filters in audio? We don't really have them. I mean, we can, as podcasters, if we want to change the sound of our program of our vocal tracks of the music, of the effects, whatever we can do that we can do that with the tools we have at our disposal.

[00:01:27] But the tools we have at our disposal right [00:01:30] now to do that sort of filtering on our audio are kind of blunt instruments. They can, if I want to pitch my voice up, I could do that. I wanted to pitch my voice down. I could do that. I can make Q adjustments and changes around to, to change the tone and timber timber.

[00:01:50] The timber is wood timber of my audio. I can do that, but oftentimes when I do that, it's starting to mask or muffle [00:02:00] what's being said, it's just not as easy to understand once filters have been. Applied. And that's a big challenge in the audio world. We, we strive for clarity first and foremost, if you can't hear the words being said, if the dialogue there's no sense, and it's not an enjoyable experience.

[00:02:23] And the tools we have right now to change our voice are well, I mean, just think of the last time, which might've been [00:02:30] a long time when you've heard someone on television when they've masked the voice and it just sounds all garbled and confused. Well, we don't want that in audio. Nobody wants to listen to that.

[00:02:39] That's not fun. That's not really a fun thing to do. We don't have that fun filter for our audio to really change the way that it sounds. Now, if you've ever tried to recreate that filter that you like when you're sharing things on Snapchat or take talk or whatever else, if you try to recreate those [00:03:00] filters, which you can do with one click on Photoshop, you will spend a very long time.

[00:03:06] Even if you know what you are doing in Photoshop, you will still spend many minutes, double digit minutes, at least. Making something maybe recreating that filter inside of a pro tool like Photoshop. That's another big challenge we face because the professional tools we have to make podcast, our doors, digital audio [00:03:30] workstations also have lots of bells and whistles.

[00:03:32] We can do things, but it just takes too long to apply those fun filters because with all the other tools that are out there, even Twitch streams, click a button. Filter applied. Don't like that filter click another button, new filter applied, knowing that an audio is a nightmare. It's long, long time. We do have some plugins you can put on, which will change the sound of the [00:04:00] overall room much.

[00:04:01] Like if you were in a different recording studio, we're using instrument in the 1970s, but those are designed for music. Not necessarily for vocals, not necessarily for podcasts. And again, they can oftentimes mask or muffle the sound because again, they weren't really designed for, for vocal tracks. Now there's another challenge with all of this.

[00:04:23] We started thinking about this. All you look at all of the videos or eclipse or whatever you've seen on Instagram. When you're scrolling through your [00:04:30] feed. Those are cute for a few seconds. I'm not so sure. Many people will want to sit through a 30 minute long audio episode where the voice has been pitched up super crazy high, almost in a Roger rabbit dish style that may not be terribly.

[00:04:51] Enjoyable and that's because when you adding filters to something, it needs to add something, not just make it [00:05:00] weird, although there's a, there's a case I suppose, but it really have to have a purpose, I think, but, but it should form the audio. There should be a big difference. With filter and without filter, when we're applying these crazy weird, you know, bunny ears type stuff on a video or picture, same thing on audio, it needs to transform it.

[00:05:20] It needs to make it fundamentally different, but in a way that makes it enjoyable for a longer form content, unless that's the problem, [00:05:30] unless that's the big hold back here. Maybe there are ways to apply this filter, these filters quickly, one touch to change everything about it. But it needs to be done on a much shorter format, you know, think Snapchat or tick doc versus YouTube ones designed for a really, really short form video where those filters and effects are often seen less.

[00:05:54] So on the other, the longer form content. [00:06:00] Now there are already lots of different small format. Small audience as well, kind of podcast, adjacent players and apps, which will allow you to do more interesting, cool, and quirky stuff. People are just starting to break the surface of this right now, truly experimenting with the creativity.

[00:06:17] Oftentimes just using for the mobile phone that's in our pocket, which by the way, is the staple of everything. I just mentioned, at least from Instagram and tick talk and those things Twitch a little bit different. We've been trying [00:06:30] for years now to make mobile phones, a viable way to make a podcast. And while you can make a podcast episode with a mobile phone, let's face it.

[00:06:38] They just don't sound all that great. But that's because perhaps we've been trying to do same thing long for maybe the short form factor is real. And maybe that short form factor needs something like these one touch. Filters. These one touch effects to really transform it into [00:07:00] something that's not just a 15 second clip of audio.

[00:07:04] It's a 15 second clip of somebody. Produced audio, someones produced audio with a bunny wearing Rose colored glasses. I don't know what that looks like. It's hard for me to explain it as hard for me to understand it, but I do think there's an opportunity, especially with the class of people who are really attracted to these short form video and pictures, sharing services.

[00:07:26] I think there's an opportunity to do something like [00:07:30] that with podcasting, what that opportunity looks like, just don't know, but. The wild things we might see at some point in time in the future. Now, speaking of wild things in the future, I envision this, I envision you right now firing up your email client or going to your direct messages or whatever the equivalent is and the tool that you are used to and sending one person a specialized note that says, hello, specialized person.

[00:07:57] I would like to let you know about this podcast called podcast. [00:08:00] Pontifications it's all about the future of podcasting, philosophical, rants, and ramblings about the future of podcasting only done in around 10 minutes. Would you please listen? That will be awesome. If you would please share the show with someone, no filter that I mentioned, hashtag no filter.

[00:08:15] And if you like their stir, the things that I say, the services I provide. Go to buy me a coffee.com/evo Tara. Now you realize you're not actually buying me a coffee there. I suppose I could use the money that I get to buy a coffee and I do buy [00:08:30] coffee and drink it on a regular basis. But buy me a coffee.com/evo.

[00:08:34] Terra is where you can go to show your support for the program. That's it. I shall be back tomorrow with yet another podcast modifications. Cheers.

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