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What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

Lesson 8 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

Lesson 8 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

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Lesson Info

8. What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

<b>In this lesson, you will learn about what an audio interface is and why it is useful.</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

What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

OK. So now we're going to be looking at audio interfaces and you may be asking what is an audio interface and why is it useful? And I'll be explaining this in this video. So an audio interface firstly is an analog to digital converter. So you have your microphone, which is an analog signal, you need to get this into your computer. So what an audio interface does is it's essentially a box that converts this analog signal into a digital signal. So you can record audio into your computer. An audio interface also has preamps. So the signal you get from your microphone is very quiet, you need an amplifier to turn this up. So your audio interface will have dials on there which allows you to actually amplify the microphone and make it loud enough. So it's at a suitable level for recording audio and an audio interface allows you to do this. And the other thing is a digital to analog converter. So an audio interface, it converts the analog signal to digital, but then you want to hear that signa...

l back from your computer. So you convert a digital signal from your computer into analog signal, which means you can plug speakers or monitors into your audio interface or headphones. So that is the uses for an audio interface. The first one analog digital converter. So the alog from your microphone into your computer, which is digital when need to convert it audio interface allows you to do that preamp or an amplifier for your microphones. Microphone has a low signal. You need to increase it. Your audio interface allows you to increase it with a preamp. And uh the third one is a digital to analog converter. So you have the digital signal from your computer, you wanna listen to it back. So you can uh yeah convert that digital signal to an analog signal. So you can listen to it with your speakers or your headphones. So you can of course plug uh headphones into your computer via the headphone jack, but it often times it will sound better and you have dedicated outputs if you use an audio interface.

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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