Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
Lesson 5 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
Lesson 5 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Lesson Info
5. Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
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
Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
So which pro level microphones do I actually recommend? And do I use? So the first one is the electro voice re 20. It's the one I pulled up before. So it's this one here. So I'd say about 80 to 90% of the videos I make are with this microphone, the electro voice re 20. So this is a dynamic microphone. However, it's just really durable. It gets the job done and I can't always control the sound outside if I've got a good idea in my head and I want to record a video. I don't always want to wait for the evening time to be able to record. I don't always have to have the the neighbors to be quiet. Obviously, I can't control um people around me, but I don't have to wait for certain things. I can just record when I want. I know it's gonna sound good. I probably could get a slightly better sound if I used a condenser microphone. But this one, it sounds great. It has that radio tone. It's a very common microphone. You see in a lot of podcasts, a lot of radio presenters use this microphone. It's ...
a classic mic also has the, this built in pop filter here, also have a pop shield as well. But it's a very good um classic microphone. And uh for my uses, it's great. Also, it's quite good. If I travel. If I go somewhere else, I often take this microphone with me because it sounds good pretty much everywhere, which is why I use it. I'd rather have, personally, I'd rather have a microphone sounded good and I can use it whenever I want than a microphone. It's great that I can rarely use. And the next microphone is the one I'm using right now, which is the Sennheiser MKH 416. This is a classic microphone that's used all the time in Hollywood in TV, shows and documentaries. This is kind of the go to s industry standard shotgun like as you will, it is quite expensive. It's around about $1000 new. So I don't always recommend getting this if you're brand new to uh making videos or recording audio. But as I do record a lot of videos and for talking head videos. So videos with a camera like this, I like to use this microphone as I can get it out of shop. And it's just a classic mic and it has a certain type of sound that people are used to from watching uh a lot of TV, shows, watching uh documentaries, movies, that kind of stuff. They will often use this mic and it has yeah classic sound that, that I like as well. The next one is a short SM seven B which I've got right here. So this microphone is uh a very standard microphone. You may recognize it from certain podcasts such as uh the Joe Rogan experience. For example, it's a very classic microphone. Um I personally prefer the electro voice re 20 because I do think it captures some of the, the depth of my voice a little better than this microphone. This one is doesn't capture the low end as m as well as the electro voice re 20 but it's still a good microphone. It's a little bit more inexpensive than the electro voice re 20. The other microphone we looked at there, to be honest, it looks pretty cool. I think that's why a lot of people use it and it does have this built built on pop filter as well. This is another standard microphone, classic pro level one that I recommend.
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