Microphone Positioning and Accessories
Lesson 12 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Microphone Positioning and Accessories
Lesson 12 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Lesson Info
12. Microphone Positioning and Accessories
Lessons
Introduction and Welcome to this Course
00:50 2Listen to your Recording Environment
03:43 3Room Treatment Tips
03:07 4Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones
02:35 5Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
02:55 6Recommended Budget Level Mics
02:35 7Microphone Audio Comparisons
05:53 8What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
01:48Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces
01:35 10Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces
01:46 11My Thoughts on USB Microphones
00:45 12Microphone Positioning and Accessories
04:09 13Essential Microphone Polar Patterns
03:17 14Recommended Monitors and Headphones
03:55 15Other Audio Monitoring Tips
02:41 16Introduction to Capturing Audio
00:18 17Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs
06:28 18A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders
02:39 19Audacity Introduction
00:45 20Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity
03:49 21How to Record Audio into Audacity
02:54 22Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save
04:15 23How to Export Audio out of Audacity
03:37 24Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity
08:07 25Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
03:17 26Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity
03:06 27Removing Background Noise Introduction
02:48 28How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity
12:54 29How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity
11:15 30Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction
02:32 31A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect
10:35 32A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect
11:21 33How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity
03:23 34Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro
06:06 35Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro
03:36 36Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin
11:08 37Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples
15:56 38Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2
11:31 39Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features
05:14 40Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise
09:24 41Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb
06:25 42Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction
02:47 43Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio
04:16 44Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain
03:15 45Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example
06:30 46How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
12:00 47How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
06:48 48How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar
08:28 49Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment
07:16 50Thanks and Bye
00:12Lesson Info
Microphone Positioning and Accessories
OK. So now let's talk about mic positioning and accessories. So the first thing is to put your microphone at an angle. So let's imagine my hand here as a microphone. And I'm gonna say this tongue twister, I recommend doing this at home as well. I might mess this up. But Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. So the emphasize the P Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. So you can feel that air on your hand when you use the those words that ha have a lot of pee in them p So that creates uh plosives. So that's that pop of air, that breath of air you hear and you often hear a micro frame recordings of that sounds really bad. But if you have your microphone at an angle, you're gonna reduce a lot of those plosives. So let's put your hand there. Again, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. You'll notice. Then Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. We can't feel that the breath of air in our hand as much. So we're really reducing those plosives. So if a microphone...
like this, you see a lot of podcasts where people have the microphone. Yeah, right in front of them like this. And you're gonna get a lot of places even with this filter here, you're gonna get a lot of places. So you really want your microphone like this at the side here. So when you're speaking, you're reducing those places. So that is the first thing I recommend over mic positioning. The next one is to use a pop shield or a filter. Some of these microphones like this one here. The sh sm seven B does have this filter on top, but I do recommend using a pop shield as well. This mic does actually have a pop filter but I double it up with a pop shield. So imagine your hand before if you have a shield or something in front of it, pop pop, it's reducing that breath of air. So it's reducing those plosives. So yeah, I do recommend using uh pop shield or pop filter. You can get ones uh this to have a bit of material. This one is a metal one. I personally prefer the metal one, but the one material's fine as well, but definitely get yourself a pop shield or a pop filter. However, if you're using a shotgun microphone like this one here and it's not up close to your mouth, say 20 centimeters or further, then you don't necessarily need to use a pop shield or pop filter as the mic is further away and shouldn't pick up many plosives or blasts of air from saying certain words. However, if you have the shotgun mic closer to your mouth, say less than 20 centimeters, then I still recommend using a pop shield or a pop filter as the shotgun mic may pick up close of sounds or blasts of air from your mouth from saying certain words. The next thing is a shock mount. So notice this microphone here, we have this kind of cage around it. So if I bang on my desk or I knock on the floor, it's actually gonna pick up through the microphone. So if I'm banging on the desk, it's gonna pick up through this microphone stand. And if the microphone's attached to it, it's gonna pick up those vibrations which you don't really want in your audio. So what one of these uh shock mouse does is it's basically a cave that holds a microphone. So it's not touching the sides or as much as possible, not touching the sides. And that way if you have any bangs or bumps or anything like that, it's not gonna pick up on the mic as well and it's gonna sound a lot better. Next thing obviously, a microphone stand, you all need to stand for your microphone. Um I like these desk stands here, these road ones, the PS A one, these are really great. You can move the microphone around this other microphone I've got on tops on there as well. I've actually got four of these stands all around me and yeah, definitely the microphone stand. Um You can hold your microphone, certain microphones like short sm 58 you can hold. But if you move your hand, you're gonna pick up the sound of your hand moving. It's just a lot easier having the stand. I do recommend investing in a good quality stand seeing how your mic's not gonna fall off or drop. And uh yeah, it is essential. The next thing is a wind muffler. So if you're recording outside, you wanna have a wind muffler. If you're inside, you don't want a wind muffler. It's essentially like a, a big furry jacket around your microphone that reduces a lot of the wind sound. So you may have seen people on um youtube the film videos by the beach, for example, it's really windy. It sounds like that. It's terrible. So have some kind of wind muffler. If you're gonna be recording outside, you can even get wind mufflers for uh Lavaliere Mics, the small clip on mics, but inside, don't worry about it.
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