Episode

Bryan Entzminger: The Art of Audio Editing

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The Sound Off Podcast
Published
Mar 3, 2026
Duration seconds
2504
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Summary

This week's episode is about the artisanship and business  of podcast editing with veteran editor Bryan Entzminger. Bryan shares how he began podcasting in 2014, inspired by John Lee Dumas’ formulaic approach to Entrepreneurs On Fire and how that era of entrepreneurship-focused shows shaped early podcasting. We unpack why many podcasts have naturally “run their course” after five or six years, how the pandemic boom has cooled, and why Bryan has deliberately avoided rebuilding a client roster too concentrated on a few shows. On the technical side, Bryan walks through his journey from GarageBand to  Twisted Wave  and finally to  Hindenburg , which he still considers the most intuitive for voice-first production and detailed technical edits. He contrasts this with transcript-based tools like Descript, explaining why automated “de-umming” often destroys pacing, breath, and emotion, and still requires hours of cleanup by a human editor. Bryan also shares favorite repair tools (like DX Revive, Supertone Clear, and iZotope), his go-to MP3 specs and -16 LUFS target, and thoughts on Zoom audio, video podcast distribution via RSS, and experiments with platforms like Fountain,  TrueFans , and his own testbed show,  Bad Podcast Pitches . Please sign up for the SOUNDING OFF Newsletter.  All the things that went unsaid on the show. Also we added the Sound Off Podcast to the The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) A free and open-source podcast  prefix analytics service  committed to open data and listener privacy.  You can be a nosey parker by checking out our downloads here. Thanks to the following organizations for supporting the show: Megatrax &nbsp…