A Guide To Audio Fanworks
A collection of tutorials, references, guides, and meta discussion for the creation and appreciation of audio based transformative works.
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podfic instructions guide (for my bedtime stories!) by xiaokuer_schmetterling for ferntasie, BiBookDemon (Cindermon_Role)
Fandoms: Podfic Fandom, No Fandom
28 Sep 2025
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what i am doing and how and why
how i do my podfic thing with a second-hand kindle e-reader tablet; a third-hand iphone SE; a busted chromebook; and a gently used and only lightly chewed-upon set of wired gamer headphones with an attached little-bitty boom-mike!
⛔CONSTANTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION⛔
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A Guide to Multivoice Filking by Meet a Meta with (SerenaEW), Pods and Filks by (SerenaEW), SerenaEW
Fandoms: Filk - Fandom
06 Jan 2024
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Since editing multivoice filk (specifically asynchronous polyphonic multivoice filk) is seen as something of a mammoth job, and I have a bit of experience in it, I thought I might break it down to the most helpful steps, tips, tricks and experiences that have made my multivoice filk projects so far possible.
I use Audacity for my endeavours but most of the things I wrote apply for most audio editing platforms.
I hope this helps.
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10 Tips and Tricks for Podfic by korechthonia
Fandoms: podfic - Fandom, Podfic Meta - Fandom, Podfic Fandom
19 Mar 2023
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Okay, you’ve recorded your first podfic, posted it, and are feeling pretty proud of yourself. But that was hard work, and also you want your podfic to be better. Or at least, you want your next one to be better.
Or, a just-after-total-beginner guide to podfic.
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Podfic Host: Backblaze Guide by GoLBMeta (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: Podfic Meta - Fandom
08 Mar 2023
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A guide (with pictures) for how to use backblaze as a host for audio fanworks like podfic.
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Keep it Simple: A Highly Biased Podfic Guide For Absolute Beginners by GoLBMeta (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: podfic - Fandom
20 Oct 2022
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This guide is aimed at beginners with the intention of trying to break down the process so it is less overwhelming. It is, as all guides are, highly biased to what worked for me when I was starting out. If you find it doesn't work for you, I absolutely recommend trying out one of the many different guides out there!
My number one recommendation is: just go for it! Things are less complicated than you think. There are a hundred of extra bells and whistles you can start adding on once you're ready, but try and keep it dead simple for your first one.
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The primary purpose of this site is to serve as a resource index for all of the resources podficcers might need.
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How to Podfic: A Highly Biased and Incomplete Tutorial by the-dragongirl
Fandoms: Podfic Fandom, No Fandom
13 Feb 2020
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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So, a while ago, some of my friends and fellow cast members of the @sansukhpodfic asked about how to make and edit podfic on their own. I created this tutorial for them, as a supplement to the resources already posted by the Sansukh mods. In the wake of the most recent @auralphonic episode asking for technical advice on podficcing in Audacity, I thought I would polish this up and post it.
This tutorial explains how, once you have permission to record a story, you go about turning it into a podfic using Audacity. It focuses on technical and logistical details, rather than artistic advice, and is cobbled together from my own experience, my knowledge of the mathematics behind signal analysis, and other people’s tutorials. There’s lots of communities and resources out there that give advice on the artistic side (Auralphonic, for example, has an episode for newbies), which I recommend checking out.
Disclaimer: There is no one standard method of doing this! This is the method I have found gives me the best results, personally, but there may be better ways to do this. I strongly recommend checking out other resources for comparison.
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