Curtis Judd 9/27/20 Curtis Judd 9/27/20

EQ for Dialogue Audio: Make Your Voice Sound Better with an Equalizer

In today’s episode, we demonstrate one way to use an EQ (equalizer) plugin to make a dialogue sound recording a little better - richer, less harsh, and more articulate. You can do this with virtually any video editing or audio editing app available. We demonstrate how to do it, in this case, with Adobe Audition.

If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. Our latest course is Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini.

Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, Pictureline or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:

- Shure KSM8 Dualdyne Dynamic microphone, used for the voice over for this tutorial - Sweetwater

- Sanken COS-11D lavalier microphone, used in the audio sample we use to EQ - B&H, DVEStore, Amazon

- RODELink Filmmaker Wireless Microphone System, used with the Sanken and Sound Devices 888 to record the dialogue sample - B&H, Sweetwater, DVEStore, Amazon

- Sound Devices 888 Mixer/Recorder - B&H, Sweetwater

The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “For the Kids” by Utah. Get a free trial of the best music for your videos at Musicbed.

Curtis Judd 3/24/17 Curtis Judd 3/24/17

Fix Audio With Sound That Plays Only In The Left Speaker: Audacity

If you record your sound with an external microphone into your camera or an audio recorder, you can end up with an audio clip where the sound is only recorded to the left channel and only plays back in the left speaker. How do you fix this with Audacity? We show you how very quickly!

And here's a previous episode where we show you how to do this in Audition:

Sanken COS-11D Lavalier Microphone

Antelope Orion Studio Audio Interface (Voiceover for this session was recorded with this)