It is nightmarish in its complexity, has an (arguably) awful user interface, comes with oft-bemoaned customer support, and is prohibitively expensive, even when compared to similar programs like Adobe Audition. Pro Tools offers layer upon layer of features that, for most podcasts, are entirely unnecessary. Using Pro Tools, it is possible to do almost anything in audio, even though “almost anything” is seldom necessary for all but the most immersive, sound design-forward podcasts. Pro Tools, made by Avid, is a monstrous digital audio workstation (DAW) software. So I quit my day job to do an unpaid training program at a tiny/wonderful radio station, that’s how I learned. A manager at an npr show I really wanted to work at earlier in my career told me not knowing ProTools was why he couldn’t hire me.
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