For your audio packages, you will need nat sound – natural sound, the audio environment or background sound that is natural to your community.
Without nat sound, your packages will sound dead and artificial.
Everywhere you go in your community, whether it’s for an interview, an event, background research, or maintaining contacts with your sources, you should record and log clear nat sound elements.
Logging elements means editing, naming, and organizing the digital files so you can find them easily when you are under deadline pressure.
As you build up a nat sound library, you can use those elements to mix into your packages, making them more lively and interesting.
You should also design a sound ID for your packages, an intro, bridge pieces, and exit that you will use consistently to alert your audience that they are about to hear one of your pieces.
Be careful not to use any part of anyone else’s existing sound ID in your own ID.
