Streamlining the process

According to polling, the most common way to listen to podcasts is using a smart phone, tablet or similar. As such, when I'm editing podcasts I check all of my mixes on my laptop speakers as a proxy for the poor audio quality of a smart phone speaker. This helps, but my laptop speakers are not quite as bad as smart phone speakers. The other day I was struggling to get a mix right for the smart phone. Rather than repeatedly bouncing the file and listening back on my phone, I had the idea of routing all of the audio from my computer straight to my smart phone using Airfoil. This meant I could mix for a smart phone in real time. I also set my phone to play mono audio, because many smart phones only have one speaker. There was some lag, but it was much more streamlined. I was pretty pleased with the resulting audio quality.

You can't control the quality of the equipment that your listeners are using, but you can control the recording and editing process.