Sometimes you listen to a podcast and wonder if the producers listen to their own podcast?
This week JASN dropped a podcast, Absolute CKD Progression Risk, that was poorly produced. This is a shame since the content was great. The host, Manjula Tamura, did a wonderful job interviewing Maria Clarissa Tio and Tariq Shafi on their fascinating study about the utility of absolute versus relative CKD risk. I loved the content. But the producers botched one of the steps in editing. Towards the end of editing, the producer needs to compress and normalize each track so that each speaker has roughly the same volume, and that volume is fairly loud. In this instance, Tamura was quiet, Tio was really quiet, and as I cranked up the volume to hear them, Shafi would blow out my eardrums. I spent the whole podcasts repeatedly turning volume up and down. Here is what it looks like:
I normalized the audio. It is not great, because I do not have the edited tracks in lossless audio, but I was able to improve the audio using Auphonic so that it looks like this:
Look at how the average volume is brought up quite a bit so that the difference between the quiet parts and loud parts is minimized. You can hear the result here:
And since I’m already here, might as well go all the way.
Why no show notes? Is a link to the manuscript too much to ask?