I have literally been scouring UA-cam trying to find a video like this for two weeks! I've now subscribed, liked it, and I'm commenting, because you've saved me! I was going crazy, because despite recording with a good condenser mic in a sound-treated room (professional panels), starting with a sound floor of -66 to -60, and voice levels between -12 and -6, I could NOT figure out how to finish an audition that is due asap! Thank you so much!
Got some questions. I am using a Shure SM7B with a Cloudlifter. I am going into a Zoom Podtrak 4 with the phantom power on (I get no audio signal without it). No matter how high I set the gain on the microphone on the Podtrak, my audio level never goes above -18db. I do have the limiter turned on for the mic, but even if I turn it off, the audio level still remains at -18. I'm just wondering if I have something set up wrong or if I should be happy. I know if I increase the gain on the Podtrak, the signal goes up there and I get distortion without the limiter on and a lot more floor noise. Should I disregard floor noise and concentrate on mic gain when I am recording? I'm just a little bit confused and I am new at this.
For mouth clicks and breaths, I just insert room tone in the quiet parts between words using punch copy/paste and I’m done. You record. few seconds of silence in your recording space, select a few seconds of the quietest parts, highlight the quietest 3 seconds or so and punch copy paste will paste room tone whatever you highlighted to the exact length you’ve highlighted.
You sir are a legend! I battled with my peek amplitude and RMS for hours trying to get them right, but every tutorial I watched had me adjust one only to throw the other off in an endless spiral of madness! Match loudness fixed it on the first try!
Thanks so much for your help but I have a question. Once I run the match loudness settings, all my quiet parts are running -40 when they were at -60. How can I remedy this?
Good info... would like to talk re: what you charge to do editing for Audio books? I'm working on a 600 page Audio Book right now... are you LA Based? Joe
GOD BLESS YOU!! I followed along to this video as I submitted my first audition to ACX! Super super helpful. This video combined with some from Mike Russell's channel has improved my audio editing and understanding of all the components used in voice over. As a new VO artist I actually really do appreciate the "why" or "why nots" when applying effects; as well, as the "order of operations" for the best sound quality. Bill DeWees doesn't go into the details like this on his Adobe Audition videos so THANK YOU thank you thank you! I do end up using a noise gate, but I have played around with it enough so that the release is low enough to make it clean but not choppy. I notice I raise that threshold for audio books as compared to commercial work. I will also play around with the dynamics processing too!! ✨ subscribing ✨
Wow thanks for all this info! as always Anthony great vid ...weird question...when starting to do recommend fivver before doing audio books as an absolute beginner?
Thanks for the video. Not too bad compared to a lot of other videos out there attempting to show people how to edit and master files for audiobooks. You mentioned you didn't use compression in your process, is that because you already have that in the front end with the UAD plugins? Regarding the DBX and the gate, I think if you left the gate open just a little (to allow some background noise) you'd be fine - What do you think? Anyway, thanks again for the video - always interesting to see what others are doing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for your feedback. There are definitely many ways you can do it. And I do have have compression on the front end but I have also done it without compression, so either would work as long as you meet the level requirements. I used to have a dbx and it was also causing me problems lol
@@AVOsJOURNEY Thanks for the reply. Yea, I have a similar setup to you with the Apollo. I was using the DBX for a while with my control room microphone, it worked fine for a while but ended up getting wonky a few months ago. I thought one of my xlr cables went bad, but when I replaced it it was still not working properly. Not sure if I got a bad one or not but it is something to note. I liked using it with my Shure SM7B to give it the gain it needed to sound good, but it's all good I have work arounds. Thanks again for the video and the reply.
Thank you so much for posting this following my question a couple days ago. I am hoping others will get as much out of this as i did. Cracking the wallet for expensive plug ins first starting out is a tough one. Appreciate you good sir!!
We are in 100% agreement about the importance of the physical space. On pretty much everything else... well there's more than one way to skin a cat, I suppose.
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I have literally been scouring UA-cam trying to find a video like this for two weeks! I've now subscribed, liked it, and I'm commenting, because you've saved me! I was going crazy, because despite recording with a good condenser mic in a sound-treated room (professional panels), starting with a sound floor of -66 to -60, and voice levels between -12 and -6, I could NOT figure out how to finish an audition that is due asap! Thank you so much!
You are very welcome :)
Very detailed I like it! Wore my head out, so I need to go shopping for a while!
Got some questions. I am using a Shure SM7B with a Cloudlifter. I am going into a Zoom Podtrak 4 with the phantom power on (I get no audio signal without it). No matter how high I set the gain on the microphone on the Podtrak, my audio level never goes above -18db. I do have the limiter turned on for the mic, but even if I turn it off, the audio level still remains at -18.
I'm just wondering if I have something set up wrong or if I should be happy. I know if I increase the gain on the Podtrak, the signal goes up there and I get distortion without the limiter on and a lot more floor noise. Should I disregard floor noise and concentrate on mic gain when I am recording? I'm just a little bit confused and I am new at this.
For mouth clicks and breaths, I just insert room tone in the quiet parts between words using punch copy/paste and I’m done. You record. few seconds of silence in your recording space, select a few seconds of the quietest parts, highlight the quietest 3 seconds or so and punch copy paste will paste room tone whatever you highlighted to the exact length you’ve highlighted.
You sir are a legend! I battled with my peek amplitude and RMS for hours trying to get them right, but every tutorial I watched had me adjust one only to throw the other off in an endless spiral of madness! Match loudness fixed it on the first try!
Thanks so much for your help but I have a question. Once I run the match loudness settings, all my quiet parts are running -40 when they were at -60. How can I remedy this?
Good info... would like to talk re: what you charge to do editing for Audio books? I'm working on a 600 page Audio Book right now... are you LA Based? Joe
GOD BLESS YOU!! I followed along to this video as I submitted my first audition to ACX! Super super helpful. This video combined with some from Mike Russell's channel has improved my audio editing and understanding of all the components used in voice over. As a new VO artist I actually really do appreciate the "why" or "why nots" when applying effects; as well, as the "order of operations" for the best sound quality. Bill DeWees doesn't go into the details like this on his Adobe Audition videos so THANK YOU thank you thank you!
I do end up using a noise gate, but I have played around with it enough so that the release is low enough to make it clean but not choppy. I notice I raise that threshold for audio books as compared to commercial work. I will also play around with the dynamics processing too!!
✨ subscribing ✨
Wow thanks for all this info! as always Anthony great vid ...weird question...when starting to do recommend fivver before doing audio books as an absolute beginner?
Anytime :) I would recommend starting on ACX and then Fiverr. That is how I started :)
Just found this, brilliant video, really clear and helpful. You have a new subscriber.
Thanks so much for this tutorial. SO helpful to me as a newbie!!
You are so welcome!
This is a great video and will stand the test of time. Could you do one like this but also with the addition of Izotope and you use of RX. Thanks
Thanks for the video. Not too bad compared to a lot of other videos out there attempting to show people how to edit and master files for audiobooks. You mentioned you didn't use compression in your process, is that because you already have that in the front end with the UAD plugins? Regarding the DBX and the gate, I think if you left the gate open just a little (to allow some background noise) you'd be fine - What do you think? Anyway, thanks again for the video - always interesting to see what others are doing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for your feedback. There are definitely many ways you can do it. And I do have have compression on the front end but I have also done it without compression, so either would work as long as you meet the level requirements. I used to have a dbx and it was also causing me problems lol
@@AVOsJOURNEY Thanks for the reply. Yea, I have a similar setup to you with the Apollo. I was using the DBX for a while with my control room microphone, it worked fine for a while but ended up getting wonky a few months ago. I thought one of my xlr cables went bad, but when I replaced it it was still not working properly. Not sure if I got a bad one or not but it is something to note. I liked using it with my Shure SM7B to give it the gain it needed to sound good, but it's all good I have work arounds. Thanks again for the video and the reply.
Love my plug ins, but I took careful notes with Adobe open. Great information!
Thanks Tom
great info Anthony!
Thank you Jim :)
Thank you so much for posting this following my question a couple days ago. I am hoping others will get as much out of this as i did. Cracking the wallet for expensive plug ins first starting out is a tough one. Appreciate you good sir!!
Thank you so much for your question and I’m so happy it helped :)
Thanks!
Thank you so much :)
I've been wondering how to take out a noise, without losing the time it occupied.
We are in 100% agreement about the importance of the physical space. On pretty much everything else... well there's more than one way to skin a cat, I suppose.
$400!? About to put on my silly little hat and get a parrot for my shoulder again. It's been awhile, lol!
That's funny
Oh yeahh
Thank you!