TPE’s Home Studio setup

About The Podcast Editor

The Podcast Editor was started by George Mocharko (he/him), formerly a tech reporter and a communication consultant when he began getting calls out of the blue from people asking for his help with editing their audio. An early client directed a staffer to send audio files to the podcast editor—meaning send them to George—and the name kind of stuck.

George has been making podcasts since 2009, back in the early days of audio on demand when RSS feeds were new, people listened to them on their iPods, and when the audio quality and production values weren’t of the same quality we hear today.

After starting his radio show and podcast DC Entrepreneur in 2015, he began purchasing recording equipment so that he had a fully-functioning home office to edit podcasts from, along with investing in field audio equipment. After wrapping the final season of his show in 2020 and stepping away from the mic to help with the behind the scene production work, he’s been helping edit other people’s audio, performing tape syncs, participating in community audio-maker events, and helping people launch their podcasts.

As an independent producer and audio editor George is a member of AIR Media. He is available to edit audio for clients remotely from his home studio and charges clients based upon AIR's Rate Guide. You can find George’s production credits on Podchaser.

Let George Do It!

George can help you start a podcast, edit your content, manage production of an existing show, or help you find the throughline in your many hours of tape. You can hear his mixing work as the post production editor of the first season of the Code Story podcast hosted by tech entrepreneur Noah Labhart. He's consulted for The Economic Club of New York and The Bulwark, performed field recording for AUSA’s Army Matters Podcast, and edited The Real Recruiting Story The NY Launch Pod podcasts.

His presentations include speaking about podcast editing at Podcast Movement in 2024, how to Podcast on the Cheap at DC Podfest, and at the DC Public library for Knowledge Commons DC.

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DAWs Used:

George primarily edits in Adobe Audition, but he has access to Avid ProTools, Audacity, Hindenburg, Ableton Lite, Reaper, and Logic Pro X, software on his iMac. Plugins he uses include iZotope RX 7 audio restoration, Celemony Melodyne, FabFilter Pro-Q 3 Equalizer, Waves Kaleidoscopes, and Supertone Clear.

Gear owned:

  • Zoom H6 Handheld Recorder

  • Shure SM7-B (1)

  • Shure SM58 (2)

  • Shure SM57 (1)

  • Rode NTG-2 with hand grip

  • iRig lav mics (2)

  • Triton FetHead preamp

  • Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

  • Sony MDR CD-900ST Studio Monitoring Headphones

  • KRK Rockit 5 Studio Reference monitors w/ stands

  • Scarlett 2i4 DI

  • iZotope RX 7 Standard

  • Behringer XENYX portable mixer

  • FabFilter ProQ 3 EQ plugin

  • Celemony Melodyne

  • Reason 11 lite (Reason+ subscription)

  • Microphone stand w/ boom pole

  • Boom arm for Microphone

  • Music stand with light and clip

  • AKAI MPK Mini midi keyboard

  • Novation Launchpad mini

  • Canon DSLR camera

  • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2

  • 3 Studio lighting umbrellas and reflector, 1 table top ring light

  • Movo Boom pole 8' with Blimp windscreen

  • Tripod and Monopod for camera or recorder

  • Descript subscription

  • SquadCast subscription

  • Auphonic subscription

Knowledge acquired and training:

Throughout George’s podcast journey, he has been the beneficiary of knowledge shared from various industry professionals. Grateful for this instruction, these include trainings such as:

Conferences Attended:

George was trained and certified to use Arlington Independent Media’s LEDE studio available for rental where you can record audio using Avid ProTools through an iMac using a Raven MTX console. The studio has two Genelec Studio monitors, a large television screen, and up to 6 pairs of headphones and 6 XLR input lines to record. There is also an audio rack which uses a Universal Audio Apollo digital to analog audio converter, several AKG C-214 condenser mics or two AKG C414s, with both floor and table mic stand configurations available. This setup is perfect for music, voice-over work, or time code syncing and editing in Adobe Premiere. AIM’s commercial rates can be found here.
AIM STUDIO IS CURRENTLY CLOSED.