Audio Jargon
Audio Jargon
I love learning about all the little folkways and mores embedded throughout various fields of inquiry, trades, cultures, and otherwise.
NPR has a page full of audio industry terms that—despite working in audio myself—taught me some things (I learned new terms, but also more context for some of the terms I knew, but had been using without understanding their full context).
If you don’t have a podcast or work in radio, and don’t intend to, most of this information won’t be relevant to you (in the sense that you won’t get to leverage it for monetary gain).
This sort of insidery knowledge can still be interesting for its own sake, however, and I would strongly recommend taking a look, researching (start with a google search and click links where appropriate) anything that jumps out at you, and giving yourself the time to wriggle through any rabbit holes that catch your attention.
You never know where this sort of curiosity-driven exploration will lead you.
(Another random, interesting this from this space: the radio announcer’s test, which I use as a warmup before recording.)
Here’s that jargon list: https://training.npr.org/2015/06/01/butt-cut-what-a-glossary-of-production-terms/
If you’ve found value in this email, there are several things you can do to support my work:
You can become a paid subscriber to Aspiring Generalist
Or you can support all my projects by becoming an Understandary member