Room Treatment Example
Lesson 10 from: Audio Production: Record Better AudioTomas George
Room Treatment Example
Lesson 10 from: Audio Production: Record Better AudioTomas George
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10. Room Treatment Example
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My Recommended Budget Audio Recording Setup
03:58 2Microphones for Video and Filmmakers
04:35 3Different Microphones and their uses
07:56 4Microphone Accessories
04:41 5Boom Operating Tips
03:21 6Microphone Accessories to Reduce Wind Noise
01:58 7Audio Interfaces and Examples
06:06 8Headphones and Monitors
01:46Room Treatment Tips
06:17 10Room Treatment Example
01:09 11My Recommended Audio Travel Gear
06:15 12Introduction to Audacity
00:45 13Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
03:49 14How to Record Audio in Audacity
02:54 15Playback, Zoom, Undo + Saving in Audacity
04:15 16How to Export Audio out of Audacity
03:37 17Audacity's Essential Audio Editing Tools
08:07 18Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
03:17 19Audacity's Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts
03:06 20Removing Background Noise Introduction
02:48 21Audacity's Noise Gate Effect
12:29 22Audacity's Noise Reduction Effect
11:15 23Introduction to Mixing and Processing Audio in Audacity
02:32 24A Brief Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect
10:35 25A Brief Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect
11:21 26Setting up an Effects Macro in Audacity
03:23 27Outboard Gear - The DBX 286s
05:26 28Thanks and Bye
00:12Lesson Info
Room Treatment Example
OK. So this is a standard kind of room that you may have to use for recording audio or mixing audio. It's far from perfect. It's a square shape and has a odd shaped ceiling. Let's hear what this room sounds like. Now, I'm just going to clap three times. You may have heard some flutter echoes there. It's not ideal, but what we're going to do now is apply some acoustic treatment. As you may imagine, not everybody can have their own specialist room just for recording audio or podcasts. So for this, we're going to try and transform this room and make it as good as possible for recording and mixing audio. OK? Now, let's have a listen to a podcast microphone in this untreated room. OK. So what you can hear right now is recorded through this dynamic microphone here and this is very suitable for podcasts or voiceovers. And as you can hear, it doesn't sound amazing in this room and if I stand back, the quality will get worse. So what we really need to do is be quite close to the microphone and ...
also treat this room. Ok. Now let's have a listen to this podcast microphone after we treated the room. OK. Now I'm speaking into a dynamic microphone, this electro voice re 20 at average distance you could use for a voiceover or a podcast in this treated room. And when I go back, you can tell the quality is not gonna be quite as good, but in a treated room like this, it still sounds fine. OK? And now we've treated this room, some of this is professional acoustic treatment and some of this is diy. Now, let's hear this room again. I'm going to clap again and you should notice there will be less flutters than without this treatment. As you can hear. It's made a big difference. The room is no longer ringing out and just sounds a lot more suitable for recording and mixing as you heard before this room did sound quite bad and now it's a lot more usable. So this is what you can do to your room with some simple acoustic treatment to treat this room. I used some diy methods which included a large piece of foam. I also added some bean bags into the room and also put down a rug to help absorb the sound of the room as well. I use some professional acoustic panels which are hung on the wall and also onto the ceiling. Ok. Now let's just do a quick comparison again between the untreated room and the treated room. So I hope you can hear that treating your room can make a big difference to the quality of your audio. So thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson.
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