if you're starting a podcast or maybe looking to upgrade your podcast software
on a Windows PC we're going to be looking at the recording and editing
capabilities of Sound Forge Audio Studio 13 for podcasting welcome to simple
green tech where we do tips tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your
creativity I'm Radio Zane and in this video we're
going to be looking at a great piece of podcast software for Windows Sound Forge
Audio Studio 13 it's a very affordable and professional piece of software I've
put the link in the description below in case you want to go over to the MAGIX
website and check out the latest pricing or you can even download the free demo
but right now let's jump in when you first open sound Forge audio studio it
will likely look like this and this is fine you can stick with the default look
but if you find inspiration in adjusting things you can change the color and
change the way the interface is laid out I did a review on sound Forge Audio
Studio 13 which goes over the color changing I'll link to that in the
description in case you want to check that out but right now we're going to
look at changing the layout so to change the way this is laid out on the screen
we want to go up to view then go to windows layouts and for this we're going
to go with podcasts because this is a podcasting tutorial and you can see that
the interface is now laid out in a different way and another one of the
default settings that you might want to change is that you can't monitor the
audio over at the side here when you arm the track for recording and ideally you
want to see what your levels are like so to enable that feature you just go up to
view record options then turn monitor on
close that down and now if we hit this button right here it's the arm for
recording and we're not actually recording right now we're just looking
at our levels I can see that I'm a little bit hot right now so I'm gonna
turn my microphone down just a little bit all right how does this look okay
these levels are pretty decent right there and I'm gonna start recording now
this is a test recording of a podcast into sound Forge Audio Studio 13 and now
I'm going to show you how to do a region or a marker while we're recording if I
just hit the "M" button on the computer keyboard like this it's now created
region or a marker and you can notice that it shows up down here and we can
create another one and we might as well create another one
and we'll stop recording now so we have our podcast recorded with a few regions
in there and if we want to jump right to these regions and start playing from
those you can just click on this little play button beside each one and it will
start playing from that region
you can also rename these however you like and you can add more in even after
you're done recording say we want to make a split in the file here and get
rid of everything before this marker to do that we're going to click on the
event tool up here and now we'll click right where we want
to make the split and you can either right click and then click split or you
can use the computer keyboard shortcut and just press s and now we have two
separate clips so if we just wanted to get rid of this completely we could
click on it press Delete on our keyboard and it's gone but say we just wanted a
piece of it it's our intro or something we can just do this
and now say that's our intro we want it there
and we can move all of these files by highlighting them and clicking and
dragging them to the beginning and now if we wanted to add a little bit of a
music file we could go down here to our Explorer bring that up into sound Forge
and I'm just going to highlight a section in here
and then I'm going to right-click copy go back to the sound that we recorded
and I'm going to click in here and right-click I'm going to paste that
sound clip that we just took from the other file and I'm going to shorten it
down so it fits in here then drag it over
and what we'll want to do here have it fade in and fade out and to do that you
just drag it over your other file and you can see that's creating these
crossfades here and that's going to make sure that it's a smooth transition into
the music and then we can drag this one over and it will be a smooth transition
out of the music so let's hear what that sounds like out here Oh key okay you can
hear the transitions there now say this music is just too loud we want it
quieter you can click up here and you'll see that it says gain and has the two
arrows click and drag that down and you'll notice that the waveform is now
getting smaller and that's in around where our voice is so now we can play it
back and that sounds alright to me now if we wanted to do some editing with
effects you have some built-in effects here
you also have some processes so if you can see here our levels were a little
bit low so we might want to normalize and to do that we would go to process
normalize and I like to get normalized to -6 DB but you can choose
whatever you want hit okay and you can see that the levels
did go up a bit you can also use external VST effects if you have any and
to do that you go to effects favorites and you should see your VST plugins
listed here including ozone 8 elements that came with Sound Forge Audio Studio
13 will look a little more into effects and ozone 8 elements in the next video
in this video I just wanted to show you how to record and how to edit in the
timeline here and I think it's pretty straightforward you should now be able
to adjust the layout the way you like it start recording make some edits by using
the event tool and move things around the timeline or get rid of things plus
also create some crossfades Sound Forge Audio Studio 13 is a solid
program for recording podcast or any audio I actually use sound Forge audio
studio 13 for making videos and pretty much anything that I need to record
audio into I do that with sound Forge Audio Studio
alright this brings me to a question for you let me know what software you're
currently using or you plan on using for your podcast thank you so much for
checking out this video and if you'd like to see more videos on Sound Forge
Audio Studio 13 and on starting a podcast please subscribe to the channel
for Simple Green Tech I'm Radio Zane and we'll talk soon