Episode 2
Gareth Davies gives a tip about dialogue editing
Tips & advice for independent podcasters.
Guest: Gareth Davies
Job title: Podcast Editor / Producer
Company: The Sound Boutique
In this episode, Gareth Davies gives a tip about dialogue editing.
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Hi, my name is Gareth Davis.
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:I'm an audio producer for The Sound
Boutique and today I'm going to give
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:you a tip about dialogue editing.
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:I'm a composer for TV and an
audio producer for podcasts and
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:other original content through
my company, The Sound Boutique.
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:I've produced four podcasts for
myself in the last four years,
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:including this one, Podcasting People.
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:The first podcast, Making a Soundtrack,
started as a collaboration between
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:me and a fellow composer to try
and create a drama soundtrack
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:without actually being commissioned.
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:And from the minute I started
producing and editing that.
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:as well as hosting with
composer Dan Watts.
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:I was absolutely hooked on podcasting.
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:I chose to edit that series while Dan
mixed the album, baptism of fire, and I
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:did that really to hone my editing skills.
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:I wanted to experience that pressure and
to problem solve on the go, as it were.
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:And it's a skill I use regularly now, to
the point where I fix audio for clients, I
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:edit dialogue, and in one case, repurpose
a whole video series as a podcast.
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:The second podcast I came up with was,
um, well, my lockdown baby in a way.
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:Creative Cuppa was a series of short
form chats with people working in
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:the many different creative jobs.
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:From photographers, artists, Writers,
musicians, actors, um, I produced around
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:70 episodes of that and it was my way of
staying connected with the world and the
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:creative people in it while we were going
through lockdowns during the pandemic.
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:Aside from this one, uh, my latest
podcast is called The Music Room, which
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:features stories of inspiration from
composers, songwriters, and musicians.
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:Uh, I'm closing in on 20 episodes of
that now, and I have to give massive
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:praise to my guests, actually, who go
out of their way to make time for me.
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:I really do appreciate it, and I think
it shows how willing and keen, even,
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:people are to help each other and
pass on their wisdom and experience.
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:For me, there's no better way
to learn than by experience.
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:I love developing formats for podcasts,
composing or sourcing the music,
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:approaching and booking guests, figuring
out if it's a limited series or ongoing,
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:chatting with listeners, , And even
in the case of the Music Room, growing
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:a community that popped up around it.
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:Uh, so for me, and I guess much like any
other industry, experience shines through.
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:If you put the work in and are
prepared to be a sponge for everything
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:podcasting, then you'll end up as a
person who people come to for advice,
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:because your podcasts sound great.
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:My big tip today is
about dialogue editing.
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:As much as hosts want to hear all
the ums and ahs and silences taken
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:out, There's a balance to be struck
between dialogue that sounds a bit
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:all over the place and something that
sounds so slick it's almost clinical.
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:So I'd encourage all the podcast
editors out there, and if you have
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:lots of experience, you'll know this
already, there's that word experience
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:again, I would encourage editors to
only take the silences, the ums and
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:the ahs and all that if it doesn't
affect the natural flow of speech.
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:I like to think of dialogue editing as
kind of tightening things up, so don't tip
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:the other way into the way of the robot.
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:You can find me at www.
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:thesoundboutique.
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:com and you can see all of
my links in the show notes.
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:Thanks for listening to podcasting people.
