Just tried audacity and am happy with it. I wanted something that was software i could install on my Mac laptop, as my experience with web-based apps had frustrated me. I n particular i found Spotify for Podcaaters to be laggy and difficult to edit.

Audacity worth the learning curve so far. Ive heard similar good things about GarageBand.

I use audacity to do edits, inserts, and noise reduction, and then do a final run through Auphonic - I pay for credits every few months but it’s worth it.

Audacity

Audacity or garage band if you run apple

As someone who has messed around with DAWs for the better part of a decade, and has had Advanced ableton, Pro Tools and Logic Pro X courses. I can confidently tell you the answer is… Which ever one you put your time and effort into learning.

Mind you, there is software out there made specifically for Podcasts, i.e Hindenburg, Audition, Ferrite, Wavelab etc etc.. Which ever one you choose, unless you out some effort into learning it, might as well use something like Audacity, which does exactly what you need it to do, and not much more.

Even though I personally use Pro Tools, and almost exclusively do Audio Dramas now, I’d recommend giving Reaper a chance, it can be a bit intimidating at first, but you won’t find a more helpful community, and just the wealth of resources and tutorials floating around on the internet, you can really end up with a powerhouse of a podcast editing software.

Audacity is the main one for free, I think most people started out using it.

Davinci Resolve is a video editor, but the Edit page works great for editing, and the Fairlight page makes it trivial to level (LUFS, different broadcast standards like R.128, EBU, whatever), de-ess, reduce noise, etc. Also supports VSTs.

Reaper is $60 and is also awsome. The reaper people also have some great free VST plugins for use with other DAWs.

Cakewalk by Bandlab is completely free to use and is a wonderful editor and recording software.

For audio, we use Adobe audition and really enjoy all its functionality. including its preset filters like "Podcast Voice". Really makes things easy for users who aren't expert audio engineers.

Reaper is absolutely the way IMHO. It looks nice, it's easy to use, it's powerful, it's very inexpensive and comes with a free trial, and the library of tutorials for it on Youtube from kenny Gioia (reapermania) are INSANE. I started with Audacity and almost immediately moved to Reaper. BoothJunkie's tutorials on voiceover work with Reaper are also very useful.

I'm also a freelance sound designer so I use Pro Tools, but if you don't have to hitch yourself to that particular wagon I'd say people who use Reaper are happier, drink less, and generally live happier lives.

Audacity. I do noise reduction, normalize, and compress.

Adobe Audition

EDIT— Middle finger to the baby downvoting every person that posted Audition. Did Adobe hurt your feelings in a past life?

I still don't think anything beats ProTools for the quickness and quality you can handle all of those tasks.

After using Audacity for a few years, I made the switch to Reaper earlier this year and I'm so glad I did. It's sped up my workflow tremendously and I couldn't have done it without this guide:

https://www.podigy.co/reaper-for-podcasting-part-one

https://www.podigy.co/reaper-for-podcasting-part-two

https://www.podigy.co/reaper-for-podcasting-part-three

It has you create a project template and set up some shortcuts for doing fades and it's two clicks to match voice levels. I've been really happy with Reaper once I got over the learning curve and there are a ton of tutorials on the web and YouTube that have helped.

I like Audition. It works the way I expect (I've used Premiere Pro in the past) and there doesn't seem to be anything I need it to do that it can't.

Reaper

There's really no best. There's best for you. I've used Audition and Logic Pro and prefer Logic Pro, but it doesn't surprise me that people prefer Audition. Everyone's workflow is different. I just don't think you'll get the truly right answer until you try them yourself.

Here's my advice: be honest about how you edit, the tools you use to edit, and why you do things the way you do them. I do not recommend asking for tips on here for how different editors do things. That's because it wouldn't be honest about your abilities or how you complete an edit.

Here are a few reasons why:

They want to see if you have the basics down within the DAW(s) you use.

They will want to know if you understand the principals of editing.

They will definitely want to hear you talk about how important deadlines are to producing a podcast, how quickly you turn around an episode, and how you will work to support the production team.

If you aren't a picture perfect candidate, but you have the personality, disposition, have most of skills and strengths they are looking for, and you're trainable, they'll hire you. Tell them how you are looking to bring in your skills and experience to contribute to the production, but you're also looking to grow and thrive within as their employee. They can always train you in their way of doing things or help build your skills by working under a more experienced person -- as long as you aren't significantly slowing things down They just want to make sure you have the personality and disposition to fit their team and the ability to be a responsible editor who contributes to the team's effort of getting their episodes edited in a timely manner.

Be honest. Be yourself. Be absolutely honest about the DAWs and equipment you are familiar with and have actual experience on. Do not be deceitful about any of that stuff. What do you think would happen if you got hired because you said you used DaVinci for color grading (but you don't actually know how to use DaVinci), then you get hired because of that, and the producers later find out you actually don't know anything about it and they were counting on you to hit the ground running with color correcting? If you didn't get fired, you would definitely tarnish your standing with the team and have a hard time earning their trust back. Additionally, what if they want to see your color grading demo reel and you don't have one? Or, worst of all, your demo doesn't show you can color grade or do it in the manner you said you did it in?

Finally, if you don't land the job, follow up with one of the interviewers to see why you did't get it. Ask them how you can grow and be a better candidate next time. That shows you are trying to grow and be a better candidate, which they will definitely remember if another position opens up. Hell, they may just call you directly and offer the job.

I wish you the best of luck with your interview and hope you land the gig!

Disclaimer: I own a production company

I create an entire script in Word. I record it in Audacity. I make a lot of use of plug n roll (Shft-D) to correct on the go which means minimal issues later when I go through to edit and check. Big recent win -Shift mouse scroll - to scroll horizontally!!!!!! Most sound treatment via Auphonic. Upload.

For noise reduction, reafir from reaper's free reaplugs works great.

For color grading, look up a DaVinci resolve tutorial. Focus on color correction first. Using a clapper board with middle grey, or a color checker/spydercheckr/one shot can speed that up quite a bit. Don't buy LUTs, those are sold as snake oil.

Run a declicker in your process as well. Helped me a ton.

I'm not a professional editor, but decided today to make a quick note of the steps I take for one of my shows:

1.        Add video files to a new Descript project. Apply Studio Sound and Compression.

2.        Edit for clarity.

3.        Export rough cut audio.

4.        Import rough cut audio into Castmagic, Amazing Apps - Rough Cut space. Use this for a draft title, to help draft the intro, and find a hook.

5.        Write the intro and outro.

6.        Record the intro and outro.

7.        Add the intro and outro to Descript project and edit scenes, transitions, graphics.

8.        Copy the video composition to a new audio composition.

9.        Edit the audio composition by removing filler words, adding in Randy Woods “Free” music track in intro and outro.

10.   Export the audio and video compositions from Descript.

11.   Export the transcript from the audio composition.

12.   Export the subtitles from the video composition.

13.   Upload the audio to Castmagic, Amazing Apps space. Use this for timestamps.

14.   Upload the audio to Captivate and write the episode description.

15.   Upload the video to YouTube and write the episode description.

16.   Create square and landscape thumbnails in Canva and download images.

17.   Upload square thumbnail to Captivate

18.   Upload landscape thumbnail to YouTube

19.   Upload subtitles to YouTube

20.   Upload transcript to Captivate

21.   Publish YouTube video.

22.   Copy YouTube video URL and add it to episode in Captivate.

23.   Publish Captivate episode.

I'm just gonna let you know, they're all going to seem really daunting at first. Audacity or garage band are great to start off with. I know a lot of people here also use reaper.

Hard recommend garage band over audacity, but there are lots of resources for all of the editing software out there

Personally, I find Descript's visual editing the easiest to understand. It automatically transcribes your audio and then allows you to edit it by removing works (like you would in a word processor).

Good demonstration here: https://youtu.be/N41v30oLM2o?t=239

The free version of Studio One is a pretty good beginner DAW.

I love and will only use Reaper. There's a 60 day free trial, can literally do anything you may need for producing a podcast, and they have a ton of support (ie community forums etc.). Tons of YouTube tutorials which is what helped me pick it up.

Audacity if free is your thing.

Adobe Audition is you want bells and whistles.

If you’re doing audio only podcasts Audacity is the way to go. If you’re editing video podcasts something like iMovie will work just fine. Start with free software and then as you gain more experience you can learn more advanced software, if needed.

I’ve done this for over 10 years so I use Pro Tools for audio editing and Premiere Pro for video editing, but I would not consider either easy to use and both are fairly expensive.

The podcast recording software I’ve been using is audacity for audio + zoom for video. 0$ setup.

For my actual studio, I’m recording on Supercast.

In both cases I take the result and put them through “Chopshop AI” to generate clips for social media.

And then easily schedule with later.app

I love using Adobe Audition.

Reaper…been using it for two years and I LOVE IT!!!

Audacity is free. Once you get the hang of it, it's not bad to use and the sounds is really good when you record and edit through Audacity

3 Choices

1. AUDACITY

2. AUDACTIY

3. AUDACITY

A little learning curve, but tons of online tutorials and FREE for life!

If you are on windows then Cakewalk is a full professional standard DAW for free:

https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

I saw cool edit mentioned here, I started with that back in the DOS days!! But that made me think, you can download my fave version of Adobe Audition 3.0 for free here: https://latestadobe.com/softwares/adobe-audition-3-0-free-download/

It's the best of Adobe's additions to Coo Edit after Adobe bought it and injected a wheel barrel of cash to the CP design team. After 3 Adobe started to change the direction for Audition and for strictly audio editing I like 3 the best. Still runs on Win 10 and installs without the Adobe licensing server getting in the way.

Si tienes Mac garage band es lo que uso para mi podcast y es gratis y muy poderoso!

¡Hola!

Yo grabé un par de temporadas de mi Podcast (Bits de Negocios) usando Audacity. No es el programa mas avanzado pero te permite literalmente “cortar” y “pegar” fragmentos de audio para acomodarlos de la forma en que lo necesites; ademas es gratuito.

Yo los publicaba en Spotify for Creators y configuré para que Amazon Music y Apple Podcasts replicaran a partir de Spotify.

Hay un programa SUPER SENCILLO (pero bajo suscripción) llamado Hindenburg PRO, que te facilita mucho la vida, se aprende en 20 minutos. Si tienes dudas te paso algún video que hice.

Una vez tengas un episodio editado has de darte de alta en un hosting, por ejemplo Spotify for creators y allí subes el episodio y activas el FEED (superimportante) y le das tu feed al resto de plataformas.

https://sunnepod.com/distribuye-bien-tu-podcast-en-todas-las-plataformas-y-gratis/

Hola! Adobe Podcast es una buena opción. Puedes grabar, agregar música y editar como si fuese un documento de Word. Tiene suscripción mensual.

Ahora, puedes usar cualquier programa que sea gratis si el no está en el presupuesto. Algo como Audacity que aunque se ve complicado, es bueno para hacer todo lo que buscas. Y YouTube está repleto de tutoriales.

Suena a que te estas sobre preparando y eres adicta a la perfección! Solo hazlo!! Graba!! Hazlo y ves como lo editas después, tienes que empezar a ejecutar!! ya tienes todo (y mucho mas) de lo que necesitas. No tengas miedo, si, la vas a regar probablemente pero es parte del proceso! Deja de sobre pensar!! Solo empieza!