A full-service podcasting production company covering everything from pre-production and script editing to post-production and hosting – even handling a podcast’s social media content – Kentucky-based Resonate Recordings is the work of mixing engineer Pat Kicklighter. He recently incorporated an RME’s ADI-2 two-channel interface into his set-up to help with conversion.
‘I really need 0.5 or 1dB increments on my volume control with a digital readout so I know where I am when I’m mastering,’ he explains. ‘I’ve used other interfaces for that, but you don’t have as much control of your monitoring levels like you do with the RME unit.’
With clients ranging from podcasting giant Tenderfoot TV, to major universities like Brown University and Stanford University to home hobbyists, Resonate Recordings services a wide range of podcasters. ‘We’re Tenderfoot TV’s main post team,’ he elaborates. ‘And we’ve also been finding that businesses and universities have a lot of need for internal communications which they are now using podcasting for. We work with anyine who wants to record a podcast.’
Kicklighter has his ADI-2 coming out of his laptop which is ‘stuffed full of USB cables’. One of those goes directly into his ADI-2 and another port feeds into to another interface. Kicklighter said the ADI-2 provides him with more headroom, fidelity and bandwidth. ‘A lot of the affordable interfaces have limited dynamic range and produce a fairly mid-rangey sound’ he says. ‘But the ADI-2 has a ton more headroom, more fidelity, more bandwidth, more high-end and more low-end.
‘I use the high output option for my Audeze headphones, but for my Sennheisers, I can use the low power option, so it accommodates the best of both worlds,’ he adds.
The ADI-2’s EQ can also adjust headphone sound, ideal for when a producer or showrunner is listening to playback: ‘If I’m having someone listen in like a producer, they tend to be more used to a bass-heavy sound like listening in a playback room, so the ADI-2 allows me to turn that bass range up and I can then give them a familiar sound.’
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