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Proxy with Yowei Shaw

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Niche emotional conundrums, investigated by proxy 🍏
Hosted by @yoweishaw (formerly @nprinvisibilia)
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Spent too much time workshopping this year’s Proxy HQ magnet and finally have a winner 🐶

Become an annual member during our fall membership drive and I will mail you one when they arrive in the physical realm

(Already an annual member? You get a magnet too)

proxyhq.org 🍏 by @proxypodcast

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17 days ago

Proxy is back next week, unfortunately for me 🍏 by @proxypodcast

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a month ago

YO what is that sick @iraglass vocal chain? As I’ve learned over the years (the hard way), audio for podcast and broadcast is kind of the OPPOSITE of audio for music. With music you are trying to sweeten the sound with all kinds of saturation, coloration, eq, room sound, reverb, etc. These are all things that we hear as musical! Yes, a fairchild was originally intended as a broadcast compressor, but if you listen to old broadcasts, things sound boxy, and saturated. Again, cool for a specific sound of music, but what we’re going for is something as clean and clear as possible, we want the Voice Over to sound like someone is sitting right next to you.

Over the years Yowei has let me convince her to upgrade her home recording set up. Instead of a blanket over her head, we got the Whisper Room, instead of using a cheap USB or condensor mic, we got a Neumann TLM 170. Instead of a Focusrite Scarlett, we got a Neve 88m (thanks for the suggestion @bestsandwichever ). @izotopeinc makes all kinds of software that removes artifacts - P- Pops or Plosives, room reflections, noise, clicks, etc. BUT the less one HAS to use them, the better it ultimately sounds. Even with all of this gear, the sound treatment helped immensely - it removed some of the reflections that were comb filtering and clouding Yowei’s voice.

We just wrapped up the first half of the 2nd season of @proxypodcast with Yowei Shaw, and if you want to learn about the emotional dynamics of your band breaking up, speaking “bro”, how to cope with losing your singing voice, and hear what this booth sounds like, check it out!

And yes, it’s a bummer that Chuck Surack (owner of sweetwater) donated to Republicans, but if anyone has any other idea about how to buy a bunch of gear to try it out, and then return the stuff you don’t want, I’m all ears! I’m still mourning the loss of Yuengling Lager for the same reason.

#headroomstudios #proxypodcast #vocalchain #audioengineer #podcastrecording taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @proxypodcast

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3 months ago

🍏NEW EPISODE🍏

This week our season finale: Taelor wants romance, partnership, intimacy, companionship… but not sex.

In this episode: asexuality, compulsory sexuality, loneliness, compromise, friendship, and how to cope when the version of love you want feels impossible to find.

Listen to Taelor Doesn’t Want to Have Sex wherever you get podcasts by @proxypodcast

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3 months ago

There are people who are good at noticing the feelings underneath the official story. Alex Sujong Laughlin is one of them.

As the host of the Try Hard podcast — and writer and producer — @alexlaughs has a gift for naming the unspoken emotional rules that are messed up, and somehow treated as normal.

For our latest Emotional Scoops Q&A, Alex talks producer invisibility, first-trimester secrecy, cat grief, and the power of freezer waffles.

Read the full conversation in File Under Feelings, the Proxy newsletter. Subscribe free at proxyhq.org by @proxypodcast

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3 months ago

🍏NEW EPISODE🍏

What happens when you become the kind of person you used to judge?

Sam is progressive. He believes the wealth gap in this country is morally disgusting.

Then he sold his company and suddenly had around $17 million and no idea how he should live with that much money.

And he couldn’t talk to any of his friends and family about it.

In this episode, we connect Sam with David – a former millionaire who gave most of his money away – to talk about what money does to your relationships, politics, and sense of self.

Sam Doesn’t Know How to Be Rich is out now by @proxypodcast

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4 months ago

Proxy on The Heart? Say what?!

Yowei is cheesing at Proxy HQ today about having her work featured on one of the most iconic shows ever.

Much love to @theheartradio @kaitlinprest for believing in us 💚💚🍏

Also, everyone needs to listen to The Heart’s latest Suburban Paradise series. This is Audio Art at its best. by @proxypodcast

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4 months ago

🍏NEW EPISODE🍏

What if your partner says he sees you exactly as you are… but one of his labels makes you wonder if he secretly doesn’t?

This week on Proxy: the case of the nonbinary person whose husband is straight.

Inside: transitioning inside a relationship, trust, dysphoric sex, labels, and the brain spiral of: but what do you really mean?

Listen to Alex’s Husband Is Too Straight wherever you get your pods by @proxypodcast

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4 months ago

For the record, Yowei does not think she’s a yappy Pomeranian producer chick.

Thank you @themjeans for the bro-speak lecture, emotional translation services, and roast.

ICYMI listen to Yowei Can’t Speak Bro wherever you get your podcasts. by @proxypodcast

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5 months ago

🍏NEW EPISODE🍏

I asked @themjeans of @howlonggoners to help me understand how to speak bro, because my husband has a friend and when they talk, I understand every word and somehow nothing.

Jason taught me the rules. Sociolinguistic Scott Kiesling helped explain why the rules exist.

Inside: the problem with “producer chicks,” the correct set and setting for feelings, and why asking for a life update can feel like assigning homework.

Yowei Can’t Speak Bro is out now on Proxy, wherever you get podcasts. by @proxypodcast

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5 months ago

🍏NEW EMOTIONAL SCOOP🍏

This one comes from @shawnoffandon

Shawn Wen is an audio journalist, writer, and host of Bloomberg’s Foundering: The Killing of Bob Lee.

We asked Shawn to report back from her own emotional weather system and she delivered: anxiety as a too-small word, caffeine rituals, and the pleasures of fresh homemade soy milk

Read Shawn’s full Emotional Scoop in File Under Feelings, our free Proxy newsletter.

Subscribe at proxyhq.org by @proxypodcast

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5 months ago

🍏NEW EPISODE ALERT🍏

A nightmare sentence: what if you love your dogs, but don’t want to be around them anymore?

On deck: compassion fatigue, caregiver burden, pet loss, grief

Jane Doesn’t Like Her Dogs is out now on Proxy 🐶 by @proxypodcast

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