how to make a podcast - Twenty Thousand Hertz Asbjoern Andersen

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The Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast is a goldmine of interesting sound-related stories - and in this excellent recap by Wil William, Dallas Taylor from Twenty Thousand Hertz (part of the Audio Podcast Alliance) shares tips and tools they use for creating their amazing podcast!
Written by Wil Williams, courtesy of Apollo Podcasts
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Want to know how Twenty Thousand Hertz creates their podcasts? On Twitter, Apollo Podcasts (@apollopods) did a live tweet session on just that and has allowed us to compile their thread into an easy-to-follow guide.

A big thanks to Wil Williams from Apollo Podcasts who did this live tweet recap from the 2022 Podcast Movement event, and to Dallas Taylor from Twenty Thousand Hertz for sharing these insights!

 

Quick navigation – click to jump straight to your chosen topic:


Project Management • Greenlighting a Topic • Working with Guest • Recording the Sessions • Editing and Mixing the Podcast • More about making Twenty Thousand Hertz + the latest podcast episode • Marketing and Artwork • Transcripts • That’s a Wrap

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Project Management:

 

First tip: Trello! This is the system the team uses for brainstorming, organization, and project management.

Trello is a great way to keep an infodump of episode ideas. You can categorize them, make channels of favorites, organize by tags and topics, and so many different things.

Trello is a great way to keep an infodump of episode ideas.

Project management tools are here to help you, and so many like Trello have free plans.

Trello is also a great way to organize RESEARCH. You can put in tons of links and again, give them tags.

You can and should also use Trello to organize your workflow.

The 20khz team also uses good ol’ classic Dropbox, which their whole team can access and organize.
 
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Greenlighting a Topic:

 

What’s an idea? What’s in research? What’s being written? What’s being produced? What’s completed?

Once a topic is greenlit, 20khz does an outline – starting with the EMOTIONAL theme. Quirky? Funny? Scary? Start there…

Next, work on story beats focused on that emotion.

Tip: try to have a little exciting cliffhanger before your midroll.
 
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Working with Guest:

 

If 20khz has guests, they use HelloSign to go through guest paperwork. (It’s another system that already exists and is here to make your workflow cleaner and easier and more efficient.)

…it typically takes 30-40 minutes to build real trust with your guest.

Next, they build their interview questions based on the story beats. They build the story and narrative right from the start and then follow that flow step-by-step.

More intimate questions are often left for the end of the interview; it typically takes 30-40 minutes to build real trust with your guest.

They use a deepfake of Dallas Taylor’s voice to see how their script sounds, how it flows, and how long it takes.

Fiction creators: this is why I HIGHLY recommend cast interviews before you start recording! (Maybe I’ll write about that for the blog…)

Always ask ‘is there anything else we missed?’ at the end of the interview.

Always ask “is there anything else we missed?” at the end of the interview. 90% of the time, the interviewee will say, “Ummm, no… I think we got it all… But–” and then give you a perfect summary of everything you just discussed that you can use.

Another great question: “Why does this matter?” Or, “Of all of the things you could have done with your life […] why this?” You’ll get “silence – then, poetry.” Many people have never been asked these things. They are “loving” questions to ask.

20khz have ended most of their episodes with responses to one of these questions. They make for beautiful, human, and emotional endings to the story arcs in the show.
 
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Recording the Sessions:

 

The mic that 20khz sends to guests? A good ol’ AudioTechnica dynamic USB mic. It’s about $100, sounds great, and “gets rid of as much gunk in the environment as possible.”

For online recording, they recommend Cleanfeed.

For online recording, they recommend Cleanfeed.

They also send guests info packets on how best to record, from putting together their setup to mic placement to what programs to use to how to send recordings. *Do this with your cast, fiction folks!*

And if needed, change your voice memo settings to LOSSLESS.

They also use telbee for digital voicemails. This is great for listeners who send in little voice notes. They’re not going to sound great because listeners don’t often have great mics – but that’s okay! It adds texture and color.
 
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Editing and Mixing the Podcast:

 

For audio editing, 20khz uses Descript.

Once the script is set and solid, Taylor is brought back in. He likes coming in with a fresh ear – not coming in with too much knowledge – so his recordings sound both authentic and clean. And also so he can enjoy it as a listener.

Yes, Descript can export right to Pro Tools.

The next step: “All roads lead to Pro Tools.” Yes, Descript can export right to Pro Tools.

When Taylor is acting as a NARRATOR, all breaths are removed.

When Taylor is acting as a CHARACTER, the breaths stay in.

The show uses music as punctuation between thoughts. “I think of the show as 15-20 second vignettes over and over and over again.”

And each of those vignettes has its own music cues. This keeps the listener engaged and helps hit each story beat.

Their general dialogue processing chain:

1. De-noise
2. EQ
3. De-Ess
4. Volume fader
5. De-noise
6. Dynamics

The show is intentionally mixed fairly dark and mid-rangey since most people aren’t listening on big badass speakers with big ol’ bassy subwoofers. Do EQ based on what you expect to sound best to the average listener, not just what sounds great in the studio.

Pro Tools looks like a waveform lasagna when we’re done with a scene

For sound design, they use tracks on tracks on tracks on tracks! Here in the audio drama world, we know that life. Pro Tools looks like a waveform lasagna when we’re done with a scene.

For mixing, they use lots and lots of buses. Not familiar with bus tracks? This post from iZotope will change your life.

And finally, they save tons of different mixes and splits: voice-over only, voice-over and music, voice-music-sfx, etc.

This helps with collaboration, and also helps when switching DAWs.
 
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Marketing and Artwork:

 

For marketing, they work with a handful of artists for episode art and assets, and they schedule all their posting

Some hosts allow scheduling, some don’t. They use Megaphone by Spotify and I know Pinecast has super easy scheduling as well.
 
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Bonus: Listen to Twenty Thousand Hertz:

 

Hear the latest episode:

Want to hear what Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast sounds like? Check out their latest episode below:


 

 

Hear the behind-the-scenes special episode:

If you want to learn more about the making of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, the team did this special behind-the-scenes episode back in 2018:


 
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Transcripts:

 

Every episode has a transcript. It’s great for SEO, and it’s great for accessibility.

Your podcast should always have transcripts! (Check out this post on ‘How to make your podcast more accessible using transcripts’ from Cassie Joesphs via DiscoverPods)
 
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That’s a Wrap:

 

After each episode, one thing they do is meet and brainstorm OTHER shows to send it to. Who might want to hear it? This is great for cross-promo.
 
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A big thanks to Dallas Taylor at Twenty Thousand Hertz for sharing insights into their podcast process and to Wil Williams at Apollo Podcasts for the great recap!

 

Audio Podcast AllianceTwenty Thousand Hertz is part of the Audio Podcast Alliance, featuring a hand-picked selection of the very best podcasts about sound. Check out the full list of Audio Podcast Alliance members below, and click a on podcast name to go directly to their latest episode:
 
AMPS Podcast • CAS In Conversation • Field & Foley • Immersive Audio Podcast • LA Post Production Sound Design • Level with Emily Reese • Location Sound Podcast • Sound Business • Soundbytes Podcast • SoundGirls Podcast • Soundtrack Show • Soundworks Collection • The A Sound Effect Podcast • The Dolby Institute Podcast • The Game Audio Journey • The Sound Architect Podcast • Tonebenders • Twenty Thousand Hertz

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Superheroes – Speed & Strength Play Track 3269 sounds included From: $135 From: $108

    UNLEASH THE SOUND OF UNSTOPPABLE POWER

    SUPERHEROES – SPEED & STRENGTH is the definitive superhero sound effects collection, capturing the raw intensity, high-speed movements, and groundbreaking impacts of cinematic action.

    Crafted for professionals, it delivers superhuman momentum and powerful action sounds ideal for film, trailers, AAA games, and post-production. Every superhero sound is engineered for precision, realism, and relentless cinematic energy.

    SUPERHEROES - SPEED & STRENGTH | Sound Effects | Trailer

    Pure Superhero Sound

    Go beyond generic action sound effects with the first dedicated superhero sound effects library. Every superhero sound is meticulously crafted to enhance speed, strength, and impact, delivering energetic whooshes and crushing hits that feel grounded yet extraordinary.

    Hybrid Sound Design Mastery

    Achieve a perfect balance of superhero energy and real-world authenticity. Expertly processed organic recordings, creating dynamic action sounds ideal for high-stakes cinematic scenes, impactful trailers, and immersive gaming experiences.

    Perfect for Professional Sound Designers
    Whether working on blockbuster films, action-packed trailers, or AAA game titles, SUPERHEROES – SPEED & STRENGTH is a professional-grade toolkit built for sound designers who demand powerful, cinematic, and impactful sound design at the highest quality.


    INCLUDED SOUNDS – KEYWORDS
    ABILITIES, AIR, BURST, COLLISION, DASH, EXPLOSION, FIGHTING PUNCH, FIGHTING WHOOSH, FLASH, FLIGHT LAND, FLIGHT SONIC BOOM, FLIGHT TAKE OFF, FLUTTER, HYPER SPEED, IMPACT, KNOCKOUT, LIGHTNING FAST, MOTION, MOVEMENT, ORGANIC ENERGY, PARTICLES, POWER PUNCH, SPRINT, WHOOSH, ZAP
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  • Uncategorized Overkill – Gore And Splatter Play Track 3390 sounds included, 160 mins total $112.49

    Unleash pure audio carnage with OVERKILL – a brutally detailed 5.7 GB sound library featuring 3390 hyperreal gore sound effects across 607 files. Whether you’re designing subtle, skin-crawling tension or full-blown splatter mayhem, Overkill gives you the raw, visceral tools to cover the entire spectrum of gore – from nuanced realism to over-the-top brutality.

     

    DESIGN KIT (360 Sounds – 60 Files)

    A collection of brutally crafted, drag-and-drop sound effects, organized into game-ready actions and categories.

    • Stab: Precise, piercing attacks with bladed weapons like knives, daggers, and swords.
    • Hit: Brutal strikes using blades such as machetes, katanas, and sabres.
    • Cut: Clean or messy slices delivered by weapons like katanas, knives, machetes, and sabres.
    • Slam: Heavy, crushing blows with blunt weapons like warhammers, morning stars, flails, crowbars – and even axes used with brute force.
    • Crush: Full-on head or body crushes – whatever happens when too much pressure turns flesh and bone into pulp.
    • Explode: Full-on body explosions – when guts, bones, and blood violently erupt in every direction at once.

    All of these categories are featured in both a realistic, organic style and an exaggerated, highly stylized, over-the-top version.

    In addition the Design Kit features Projectile Impacts from Guns, Shotguns and Arrows.

     

    BUILDING BLOCKS (384 Sounds – 64 Files)

    The goal behind our Building Blocks is to provide pre-designed sound layers that streamline your workflow. We’ve created straightforward, easy-to-use categories that let you quickly build new sounds or enhance your own designs.

    All following categories are available in both Wet and Dry:

    • Impact: Ideal as punchy sweeteners for heavy weapon hits and brutal moments.
    • Whoosh: Quick, clean lead-ins to enhance any kind of gore sound.
    • Crack: Perfect for highlighting the snap of shattered bones and broken bodies.
    • Tail: Drag and drop to add lingering, gruesome sustain to your gore effects.

     

    CONSTRUCTION KIT (2653 Sounds – 483 Files)

    For our Construction Kit, we wanted to give you the best of both worlds to meet (or should we say meat) all your needs. You’ll get cleaned raw recordings for full flexibility in your own processing, plus pre-processed and layered sounds to spark creativity, fuel inspiration, and give you everything you need for hyperrealistic gore design.

    Our Construction Kit includes:

    • Blood: Vile drips, juicy splatters, and bone-chilling squeezes.
    • Gut: Rich with drops, impacts, squishes, and visceral movement.
    • Flesh: Brutal impacts, rips, strains, and movements.
    • Bone: Crisp breaks and sharp snaps.
    • Texture: Hyperrealistic wet and dry constant textures.
    • Weapon: Resonant metal slices, stabs, and hits, as well as whooshes for weapon hits and ricochets.
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  • Bundles MASTERGUN – NSV Play Track 872 sounds included $125

    The Master Gun NSV Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

    Raw Recordings

    Our raw shots features a total of 26 channels including 12 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
    Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

    Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

    Designed Mixes

    Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

    UCS compatible metadata embedded

    All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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  • Whoosh Sound Effects Swish and Flick Play Track 1992 sounds included $60

    Swish and Flick is a sound pack featuring a collection of high-quality whooshes, designed whooshes, whoosh source, and tonal content.
    This pack features 1992 sounds across 138 .wav files (20 Designed, 118 Source) exported at 192kHz/24bit. Aimed at professional sound designers and editors looking for clean, mastered, ready to use assets with plenty of variation for game audio or linear media.
    Recorded on the SD 788T with Schoeps MK 4 & 8 along with the CMD42 digital preamplifiers, as well as an MKH 8040 XY pair (among others), and meticulously cleaned up in iZotope RX while persevering optimal signal to noise and frequency content.
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  • Bundles MASTERGUN – HK21E Play Track 1521 sounds included $60

    The Master Gun HK21E Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

    Raw Recordings

    Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
    Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

    Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

    Designed Mixes

    Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

    UCS compatible metadata embedded

    All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

    Add to cart

   

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