Audio, Music & Licensing

Double-ender

Also called: double ender recording, local recording

Standard practice for remote podcasts and interviews. Zoom, Riverside, SquadCast and the rest carry the conversation so people can hear each other, while each end records a clean local file from its own microphone at full quality. Line the files up in the edit with a clap at the top or by matching waveforms. Always keep the call recording as backup, because the failure that actually happens is a guest forgetting to press record. Over a long session, variable frame rate video and clocks running at marginally different speeds can pull tracks apart, so check sync at the end as well as the beginning.

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