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Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

Lesson 30 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

Lesson 30 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

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Lesson Info

30. Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

<b>In this lesson, you will be introduced to this next section, where you will learn about mixing and processing your audio in Audacity.</b>

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Introduction and Welcome to this Course

00:50
2

Listen to your Recording Environment

03:43
3

Room Treatment Tips

03:07
4

Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones

02:35
5

Recommended Pro-Level Microphones

02:55
6

Recommended Budget Level Mics

02:35
7

Microphone Audio Comparisons

05:53
8

What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

01:48
9

Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces

01:35
10

Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces

01:46
11

My Thoughts on USB Microphones

00:45
12

Microphone Positioning and Accessories

04:09
13

Essential Microphone Polar Patterns

03:17
14

Recommended Monitors and Headphones

03:55
15

Other Audio Monitoring Tips

02:41
16

Introduction to Capturing Audio

00:18
17

Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs

06:28
18

A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders

02:39
19

Audacity Introduction

00:45
20

Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

03:49
21

How to Record Audio into Audacity

02:54
22

Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save

04:15
23

How to Export Audio out of Audacity

03:37
24

Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity

08:07
25

Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips

03:17
26

Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

03:06
27

Removing Background Noise Introduction

02:48
28

How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity

12:54
29

How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity

11:15
30

Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

02:32
31

A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect

10:35
32

A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect

11:21
33

How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity

03:23
34

Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro

06:06
35

Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro

03:36
36

Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin

11:08
37

Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples

15:56
38

Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2

11:31
39

Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features

05:14
40

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise

09:24
41

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb

06:25
42

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction

02:47
43

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio

04:16
44

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain

03:15
45

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example

06:30
46

How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

12:00
47

How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

06:48
48

How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar

08:28
49

Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment

07:16
50

Thanks and Bye

00:12

Lesson Info

Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

In this next section, we're going to be talking about applying audio effects and processing audio in audacity to help improve how the voice sounds. So if you want to follow along with me in this video, feel free to download the audio track attached to this video as a resource where this audio here is attached. This is also the same audio file that we were looking at in the editing section of this course. But you can actually apply the techniques. I'm going to teach you in the section to your own audio clips or you can follow along with me with the exact audio clip before we get started. Let's duplicate this audio track so we can quickly A B or compare the two pieces of audio while we're mixing. OK? So I'm just going to double click on the track header here to select the track. And then I'm going to press command D on Mac or control D on windows to duplicate. You can see here. It's duplicated this track. We also have this empty track in the middle here. I'm just going to delete this by ...

pressing the X button on the track header. Just to keep things organized, I'm going to name both of these tracks. So on the track header here, the small arrow button, I'm going to click on that and then press name. So for track two, this will be the original audio. So the unprocessed audio. So I'm going to call that unprocessed and track one will be the track that has the effects. So let's click on this arrow button on the track header, then go to name and for this, I'm going to call this processed, but you can call this whatever you like. Now, I'm just going to double click on the top tracks header here just so I select only this track as we don't want track two selected because I'm not going to add any effects to that track. Also, when we add effects to audacity, these changes are destructive. So that means when we add an effect is actually going to burn the settings into the audio, we can press undo but we can't simply turn the effects on and off like we can in other pieces of software or digital audio workstations. So that's another reason why we want to keep the original audio track just in case we make a mistake, we can always go back because we have the original track here. I also recommend using high quality monitors or headphones to monitor your audio for mixing. So mixing changes can be quite subtle. So you really want to be able to hear the audio clearly, like I've said throughout this course, if you have really bad quality audio, then applying effects and processing the audio won't really fix this. You want to make sure your audio is recorded well to start with, then we can improve this by adding effects. So in the next few videos, we're going to be looking at EQ and compression which are really the main effects for mixing. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials

40._Audio_Examples_for_Noise_Reduction.zip
34._Audio_Examples_for_Premiere_Pro_Audio_Mixing.zip
30._Downloadable_Audio_Examples.zip

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