Double-ender
Each person on a remote call records their own mic locally, so the final edit is not stuck with call-quality audio.
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What it is
A double-ender is a remote recording where each participant records their own microphone locally, then sends the file to the editor. The call still provides conversation and timing, but the finished audio does not have to use the call's compressed, dropout-prone sound. The same workflow is also called double-ended recording, and Riverside, SquadCast, and Zencastr all sell it as a browser app that handles the local capture and upload for you.
Reach for it for remote podcasts, interviews, voice sessions, and any conversation that must survive an unstable connection. Everyone uses headphones, records an isolated WAV at the same sample rate, and makes one shared clap or spoken slate near the start. The editor lines up the slate, then uses the call recording only as a sync guide and emergency backup.
Gotcha: local quality moves the failure point, it does not remove it. A guest can select the laptop mic, stop recording, or lose the file, and independent clocks can drift over a long session. Confirm every meter before the interview, keep the call backup, and check sync again near the end rather than trusting the opening clap alone.
Ask AI for it
Record this remote interview as a double-ender with Riverside local recording and a Zoom call as backup. Capture each participant on an isolated 48 kHz 24-bit mono WAV, require wired headphones, confirm the selected microphone and input meter before rolling, and make a shared spoken slate plus hand clap at the start. After upload, align the clap, check drift at the final minute, and export synchronized full-length tracks with identical start time and filenames [speaker]_[take].wav.