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title: "Podcast Audio Technique | Pete Lipponen | Negotiator 19"
titleOriginal: "Podcastien äänitekniikka | Pete Lipponen |  Neuvottelija 19"
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guest: "Pete Lipponen"
datePublished: 2020-05-17
duration: "36:37"
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# Podcast Audio Technique | Pete Lipponen | Negotiator 19

English subtitles are not available on this page. This is an episode summary, not a curated transcript.

## Summary

The audiovisual specialist Pete Lipponen and the host dissect why podcast audio fails and what can be fixed without major investment. The episode covers the difference between dynamic and condenser microphones, polar patterns, microphone distance, and controlling reverberation in an ordinary room. It explains phantom power, XLR cabling, manual level setting, and why audio is left roughly six decibels of headroom. It closes on live streaming tools from Blackmagic switchers to OBS, and the realities of post-production in a one-person operation.

## The room, not the microphone

The instinct when audio sounds bad is to buy a better microphone. Lipponen's order of operations is the opposite: an ordinary room adds reverberation that no microphone removes, and reducing it costs nothing but rearrangement. Everything else is a smaller effect.

## Six decibels

The headroom rule exists because people get louder when they get interested. Recording at a level that sounds ideal in rehearsal leaves nowhere for that to go, and clipping cannot be undone afterwards.

## Why it is worth the effort

People stop listening because of how a recording sounds, not because of what is in it. That is the whole case for spending an evening on microphone placement, and it is the reason this episode exists.


## Watch

The recording lives on the Neuvottelija channel: [Podcastien äänitekniikka | Pete Lipponen |  Neuvottelija 19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YC_9R1PF80).
A Finnish edition of this episode is published at [www.neuvottelija.fi](https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/25-podcastien-aanitekniikka-pete-lipponen-neuvottelija-19).

## In depth

The Neuvottelija AI editions carry a long-form write-up of this episode:
[English](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep19-podcastien-aanitekniikka-pete-lipponen/) · [suomeksi](https://www.neuvottelija.fi/tools/ep19-podcastien-aanitekniikka-pete-lipponen/).

## Explore the ideas in depth

- [Enterprise AI Agents: Economics, Governance and the Shift From Tools to Workers](https://www.neuvottelija.com/guides/enterprise-ai-agents-economics-and-governance/): A guide to enterprise AI agents — the real cost model behind agent work, why owning your own stack is becoming a strategic question, a working governance framework with approval gates and audit trails, the agent risk matrix, the EU AI Act timeline as it stands, and who captures the productivity gains. Grounded in a real multi-agent lab, two 2026 keynotes, and Neuvottelija conversations.
- [Nordic SaaS Valuation & M&A: How AI Reprices Software Companies](https://www.neuvottelija.com/guides/nordic-saas-valuation-and-ma/): How software companies in the Nordics are valued and sold as AI moves inference into the cost of goods sold — where multiples stand in mid-2026, the metrics that get repriced, why vertical SaaS defends its premium, AI due diligence, and the shift from seats to outcomes. Grounded in Translink's SaaS valuation work and Neuvottelija conversations.

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Cite as: Sami Miettinen, Neuvottelija — Podcast Audio Technique | Pete Lipponen | Negotiator 19, https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep19-podcastien-aanitekniikka-pete-lipponen/, 2020-05-17. For quotes include episode 19 and timestamp.