Dropbox to easily synchronize folders, or other file-sharing services ( Box.net, Senduit, Ge.tt, and more) to transfer the recordings to the producer (probably you).

Clap as you count to ten to synchronize.

Skype, Google Voice, or even a phone call between cohosts.

Audacity or other means of recording for each cohost.

The best microphone you can get for each cohost (even the cheapest mics will produce better quality than Skype).

Sometimes, they would even edit to make it appear as if the two personalities were in the same studio.Īlthough the technique is no longer used for television broadcasts, it still works great for podcasting when you want the highest-quality audio without bringing all of your hosts in-studio. “ Double-ender” comes from the pre-satillite days of television when two personalities would be recorded with audio and video in their separate locations and then the two videos later combined.

Record separately and combine in post production (called a double-ender).

Record in-studio with multiple microphones and a mixer.

If you want to highest-quality audio in your podcast of two more more hosts, then you have only two options: I realize there is a Mixer Board under the View menu but that doesn’t seem to do what I’d like.

Then of course, mix the 2 tracks which would capture the dynamic gain changes I dialed in on Track 2. In other words, being able to dynamically adjust the gains as the song progresses. Set Track 1’s volume gain to remain at 0dB for the entire song, begin Track 2’s volume gain at -3dB, at some Time Point 1 increase Track 2’s gain to 0db and hold this until Time Point 2 where Track 2’s gain is returned to -3dB.

Is it possible to produce a mixed track that does the following? This approach works but doesn’t offer much flexibility. I then mute Tracks 1 and 2, select Track 3 and Export my mix (Track 3) to MP3 format.Once I like the mix I select each track and Tracks/Mix/Mix and render to new track, I now have Track 3.As the song is played I then increase or decrease the volume gains until I get a mix that I like.Listen to both tracks play simultaneously with headphones starting with each tracks volume gain and pan set at the middle position (0dB for the volume gain).I have 2 tracks in Audacity 3.1.3 (Windows) that I would like to mix in a better way from my standard method.

Audacity mixing