Hey David. Sorry, EQ is just short for "equalisation", which I should have used. It just means applying an equalizer to the tracks to bring out the desired frequencies. You may not need it, depending on how yours sounds after you record. What kind of background noise is it? It's easy to remove hums and steady machine-like sounds. You should record a section of nothing but the noise, then apply a noise reduction thing to reduce that particular noise/set of frequencies. I record on my desktop and the fans are fairly noisy -- the noise reduction filter drops that out pretty nicely.
For podcasting, consider another microphone -- a unidirectional one that will just pick up your voice/what's directly in front of it. That said I don't use one of those currently, but one of those snowball mics -- it does pick up sound from all around it, but it's quiet around here as it's just me in this place, so it works ok. Still, a more studio-oriented mic would be ideal. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: February 15, 2021 07:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] podcasting, any tips? Hello, Thanks for your reply. What I did with my first go was to make the podcast then use goldwave's maximize volume option to get the volume to zero db without clipping. I have been reading, and listening to tutorials and presentations since my first podcast and have learned about vst plugins, that's where I wondered about a compressor. I've also got some background noise that my phone microphone picks up. It's from another room about ten feet maybe 15 feet away I'm actually surprised the mic got it, if possible i'd like to filter that out. Can you explain EQ? Thanks. Dave. On 2/15/21, JM Casey <[email protected]> wrote: > Crazy volume differences are one of my pet peeves listening to > podcasts. I like to listen to them while doing stuff around the home, > with my desktop PC broadcasting to my bluetooth headphones. It works > great until someone inserts an audio clip from somewhere, or there's a > guest on, whose volume is so different from that of the main host -- > either loud enough to burst my eardrums or so quiet I have to crank it > and then quickly turn down again when the clip is over. > Anyway, you say you're already using plugins and doing > post-processing. Is that not working out for you? What are you doing to the > audio exactly? > Noramlising audio volume? > For your speaking voice, a bit of compression might be nice, but I > think eq is maybe the most important thing to apply -- in my opinion > you want to bring out the higher frequencies of the human voice a bit, > to make things like sibilances clear and well-defined but not so sharp > that they're distorting (this shouldn't happen so much with a good > microphone, anyway). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David > Mehler > Sent: February 15, 2021 06:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [all-audio] podcasting, any tips? > > Hello, > > I'm dipping in to podcasting. I've made and submitted one, but think I > could do better. The podcast is a demo which is recorded on my s10+ > using amazing > mp3 recorder, and demoing features of the phone so it's also talking. > > One thing I've noticed is sometimes the audio isn't right, it's either > to loud or not loud enough, I've maximized volume. I am using > goldwave6 with some added-vst-plugins for post-processing. The files > are recorded as wav files then saved as 44.1Khz 64Kbps mp3 files. > > I thought about giving a compressor a go to make my voice crisper and > the phone volume more even as well, but don't want to smash things to soundly. > > I'd appreciate any tips. > > Thanks. > Dave. > > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3802): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/3802 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80667573/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
