Current's The Pub

If you've ever heard some digital slurp, bloop or BOOM in a radio story and thought "How'd they make that?", listen to this episode of The Pub to find out. Sound designers Jonathan Mitchell of Radiotopia's audio fiction podcast The Truth and Alex Overington of New York Public Radio/Q2 Music's Meet the Composer podcast open up their laptops and demonstrate how they create the kind of digital effects that pervade today's high-touch audio storytelling. Also on the show: - An analysis and a defense of WBAA's decision (since reversed) to drop This American Life from its schedule. - WNYC Vice President of On-Demand Content Paula Szuchman previews WNYC's upcoming women's podcast festival "Werk It." - Audience members play a game called "Auto-Tune the Radio" in which they have to identify famous public radio voices that have been amusingly altered.