In a voice recording, the area of frequencies between roughly 3 and 6 kHz (which is the same as 3000-6000 Hz) is responsible for the intelligibility of that voice. Therefore, please watch the above video about equalizers first, then all I’m talking about here becomes clear. This tip might be a bit technical if you don’t know anything about equalizers. But not the best one, because sometimes you will loose the ‘feel’ the music brings, because you can barely hear it anymore. A very common question is: How do I make sure the music doesn’t get in the way of the speech? Well, just turning the music way down is one option. Then the hosts starts talking and the music is turned down a bit. Suppose you have a piece of music you start your podcast with. Please use this as a starting point, not as the final setting! □ And to help you even further: here is a Cheat Sheet with a good start setting for voice recordings. How does an EQ work? Check out the video below. And you can turn down frequencies that are distracting so with some tweaking the voice sounds just right. For example, you can turn up the frequencies that are responsible for the intelligibility of a voice. It’s like a volume control, but only for a specific frequency. There are a few tools you will need all the time when mixing a podcast. How does that work? Check it out in this tutorial! Taking that away gives you a nice ‘clean’ sound and can make a big difference in sound quality! There are also plug-ins that can help with this, such as a noise gate or expander. This creates an indirect sound, you will hear more of the room you are recording in. Because even though they are not saying anything, their microphone is also picking up a bit of the speaker who is speaking. At that point, delete the audio on all other tracks, mute it, or just turn the volume way down of those tracks. To make the audio sound better, it can be very helpful to make sure you only ‘turn on’ the track of the speaker that is speaking. I already gave the tip to record each speaker on a separate track. Only the track of the ‘active speaker’ is on Always keep listening, maybe sometimes the ‘ uhmm‘ is necessary, just because the question is difficult and you want to let the listener know that the guest had to think about the answer.Ģ. Deleting too much of the silence between the question of the host and the answer of the guest or removing all ‘ uhmm’s‘, short silences or slips of the tongue, will make your podcast sound unnatural. This is step one in creating a good mix, albeit with a small side note: it’s important that the conversation remains natural. Removing slips of the tongue, long silences and “ uhmm’s” can also help to make your podcast better and clearer for your listeners. If that silence is too long, it can sometimes take away the ‘flow’ and removing it makes your podcast ‘snappier’. Don’t be afraid to delete the silences between the host asking a question and the guest answering it. This often makes the podcast more powerful and ‘to the point’. To make your podcast sound good, you can delete or shorten certain parts.
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