Room Treatment Tips
Lesson 3 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Room Treatment Tips
Lesson 3 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Lesson Info
3. Room Treatment Tips
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
Room Treatment Tips
Ok. Now, let's look at how can you improve your audio recording environment? So we're gonna look at room treatment tips. Now, the first thing is though, you must be able to hear these issues before you try and fix them. So I want you to actually listen to the sound of your room. Speak in your room. Now, speak quite loud. Can you hear the reverberated sound? So can you hear the sound of your voice bouncing off the walls and coming back again? So when you speak the audio from your voice, so the sound from your voice is going off into the wall and bouncing back at different directions before it comes back and hits your ears and the longer it takes to come back and hit your ears, the bigger the reverb and also the harder the surface is, the harder it bounce off the walls and come back again. But if you can soften these walls, if you can soften these surfaces, then the reflections won't be as harsh. And the reverb or the big echo sound, it won't be as harsh. And really when you're recording...
voiceovers, you want a dead sound. If you're singing, you might want some nice reverberated, big sound. But for voiceover work for podcasts, for tutorials, really? You want dry dead sound and the best way to do that is to treat your room. Ok. So, like I said, you wanna listen out for those echo codes or the reverb of the room? So what you can do is you can do a clap if you hear a big reverberated sound, clapping back, you know, there's some issues. If the clap and it's very dead, then you know. Yeah, maybe this room is pretty good. Generally speaking though, if you buy a big window, if you have a laminate floor, if you have a big tall ceiling, you're gonna have a lot of echo and a lot of reverb, you do wanna think of treating that or finding ways to reduce that. So you may actually have things around your house already that you can use to actually treat this reverb. So a rug can be great. So if you have a laminate floor, you can put a rug on there and that can absorb some of the sounds. So if a carpet really want to record it in a room that has a carpet, also, a sofa can be great to absorb some of the rooms or you can even record it in your bedroom. A bed can be, yeah, a great thing to actually absorb some of these sounds and curtains, heavy thick curtains, especially if you have a big window, cos that window can reflect the sound of it and can add to that reverberated echoey sound which you really don't want. So make sure when you record you have the curtains closed and that can help reduce some of the, um, echo or reverb of your room. Then of course, you have pro level acoustic panels and foam the room in right now. It does have a carpet, uh, but it does have different panels and foam around me. So this can really help for you reducing the echoes. If you hear my voice, now, you'll notice it's not very accurate. It's not very reverberant. There's no big reverb because I've treated this room. So you wanna make sure if you wanna record high quality audio treating your room is the most important thing. It's more important than microphones. You wanna make sure your room is treated. That's the main thing I hear time and time again is people don't treat their room properly. They buy a really nice microphone, especially a really sensitive microphone that picks up all of that room sound and it just sounds like you're recording in a cave, which is really what you don't want.
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