Limiters made sure you recordings are not too louds when your recording. And they help you create headroom in post production. Let's explore how. And also understand why analogue limiters are better than digital limiters.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: My Car (Supermarket carpark. Forgive me if the sound of traffic bleeds onto the tape)
Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)
Editing app (and EQ) : Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Episode art: Canva
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file
