TPE’s Home Studio setup

About The Podcast Editor

George Mocharko (he/him/his), known as, and doing business as “The Podcast Editor,” partners with brands and creators to develop and deliver outstanding podcasts that respect both your reputation and your audience’s time. Whether your goal is to generate B2B leads, B2C engagement, or build authentic person‑to‑person connections, George will guide you through launching, rebranding, or sustaining your audio and video show. George handles the back-end of audio production to help prevent hosts from facing “podfade,” or burnout, to ensure that your time on‑mic stays energized, present, and authentic. This helps you focus on things you need to do best as a host like build necessary relationships, develop new connections, plus deliver and consistency in your output.

The Origin Story…
So…George was working as a local tech reporter while hosting the DC Entrepreneur radio show on WERA 96.7 FM, began getting calls out of the blue from people asking for help with editing their audio. As a communication consultant with GeoTech Consulting, LLC he helped businesses hone their website copywriting, nail their presentation slide decks, and refine their external messaging strategy.

Naturally, the next step would be to help support other people’s podcasts and start his own business, much like the start-up founders he was interviewing. While he was doing this mostly as a freelancer, one early client told someone to send their audio files to “the podcast editor”—meaning George—and the name, well, kind of stuck, leading to this service and website.

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 his first show, 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 to record in other environments. After stepping away from the mic, he’s equally comfortable doing the behind-the-scenes production work of editing other people’s audio, participating in community audio-maker events, and helping support other’s podcasts.

George is a member of AIR Media and available to edit audio for clients remotely from his home studio, or engineer in your space, 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. Although he prefers the post production side of things, he’s literally done it all, and worn all the hats.

Some of his live presentations and talks include teaching “Podcast Editing 101” at Podcast Movement (2024), “How to Podcast on the Cheap” at DC Podfest (2016), how to start your show for Knowledge Commons DC at DC’s MLK Library (2016), and speaking to a delegation of young entrepreneurs from Azerbaijan via interpreter through the International Visitor Leadership Program, an exchange run by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (2017).

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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/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 using Avid ProTools through an iMac using a Raven MTX console. Prior to its closure, the studio had two Genelec Studio monitors, a large television screen, and up to 6 pairs of headphones and 6 XLR input lines to record using an audio rack with a Universal Audio Apollo digital to analog audio converter, several AKG C-214 condenser mics and two AKG C414s, with both floor and table mic stand configurations.