In part 43 I take a look at dealing with breaths in your audio. Breathing is essential to sustain human life and therefore breathing gets recorded into audio. As we breathe our brain is wired to accept the pause that breathing causes when we’re listening to audio. It’s a part […]
Audio Journey
In this part I’ll explain how to set and use a noise gate or downward expander to remove annoying background noise. It’s important to say that the aim is always to record in an environment where you’re not picking up background noise but sometimes that’s not possible. In that case […]
Mistakes are something that we all make. Some more than others and even those who don’t make a lot will find they have days where they do! I’ve recorded bulletins before where I’ve done the whole bulletin in one take and then the next day a 3.30 bulletin is 5 […]
In the last episode I showed how to get an edited podcast mixed down and mastered to the correct loudness standard accepted for podcasts. Following that episode I got an email through the website asking whether it would be correct to match the loudness to the correct standard in the […]
In this episode I’m going to look at getting your podcast from an edited multitrack session into a final file you can upload to your podcast host for distribution to the various podcast directories. Back in part 13 (https://markdenholm.com/your-audio-journey-part-13-producing-a-basic-podcast/) I showed the basics of putting together a podcast. Today I’m […]
In Part 38 it’s mastering that we’re looking at. Everyone will have heard of mastering but may not understand it. Look in your CD or mp3 collection and I bet you’ll have a re-mastered album in there. Mastering is adding the final production to your audio. The main work should […]
At some point in time you may need to limit audio in your production. Possibly in a multitrack mix you might want to limit the music so it can’t exceed a certain db level. A hard limiter is not normalisation in that it’s function is to place a ceiling on […]
Following the compression series of the audio journey where I looked at compression for different scenarios with the single band compressor and compression using the multiband compressor I received a question through the website asking me about setting up compression for internet radio that would achieve a sound like an […]
So far the entire audio journey has focussed solely on audio, and today does again but this time we look at audio as part of video production. Every video contains an audio element and you will have taken ages recording your footage and b-roll, and another chunk of time planning […]
Today we’re looking at multiband compression. So far we’ve looked at single-band compression using either the single-band compressor, the dynamics compressor or dynamics processing. This time we’re looking at multiband compression. As its name suggests it compresses different parts of the audio depending on defined frequency bands. Be careful where […]