Love this!!! I am working on my first audiobook... FINALLY found a way to sound legit!!! I bring the acting... but all this techno stuff is new to me... learning curve pegged! THANK YOU!!!
@@curtisjuddhelp me pleaseWhen I vote for a movie, the sound of the movie doesn't come out from the bottom, it's just like a normal record. Please help me. I'm Uzbek. No one from the state wanted to help us.
This was a great quick overview of how the Parametric Equalizer works. It would be great to see more videos going over the other audio repair tools found in popular software.
@@curtisjudd Hello Curtis, is there any other way to edit audio for films? I know special effects that you can add and stuff like that, compressiıng and EQ of course. But, is there any other way to edit audio? How do they edit professional films for movies? Thanks.
Mannnnnn, Curtis! I've only recently started getting more into EQ. Previously the MOST I would do is roll off the low-end to account for any rumble or proximity effect type stuff. Hearing your example, I should have gotten into this sooner! But at least now, thanks to your video, I'm armed to better pull the best out of my dialog. THANK YOU!
Curtis, I couldn't help but laugh out loud when you had a -6dB cut with a Q of 2 and then saying "it's a subtle change" hahaha! You're the best man. A really helpful video, and an absolutely HORRIBLE sounding microphone on your voice. You definitely improved the sound on it a lot.
This is fantastic Curtis. Please more DAW/sound editing tutorials! Sound is so often overlooked in production houses that put out daily/weekly content. I wish there were 100 more people like you on YT!
Just the kind of clear, concise and, most of all, useful tutorial the subject calls for. Virtually everyone has or deals with voices that might not be a perfect fit for this mic or that signal chain. Nobody has an infinite microphone locker. But everyone has ears. This provides a great guide for using them. It's also a nice antidote to the temptation of wasting time and money chasing some holy grail microphone. There isn't one. And while you obviously cannot turn a Blue Yeti into a U87, you can certainly make most voices fit most mics well enough to be pleasing and credible to most listeners. Thanks, again, for underscoring that sometimes overlooked idea.
So many tutorials I’ve seen give ranges of hertz you should boost or lower for male and female vocals. I found myself constantly referring back to their resources and mindlessly plugging in numbers. I love this tutorial because you actually teach us what to listen for and take matters into our own hands!
Hey, just stumbled across this video after spending way too many hours trying to EQ my voice. Must say this was one of the easiest to follow. Clear instructions and info made it super easy to (I hope) find what needed to be fixed and adjust it. Cheers
I bought a wirless lapel mic a while back thinking that this is what will push my video quality over the edge. But now I relisten to some of my videos and wished I'd done EQ, even relatively cheap microphones like mine can sound much better with some EQ'ing. Thank you so much for this tutorial!
TH-cam had me running around for an hour trying to find what I didn't know would be this video. Thanks for teaching to the point with clear examples of before and after.
Just tweaked a video I'm working on for a client after watching this and wow what a difference! Went back and fixed the previous three before they're published. The hardest part for me is just identifying by ear what those harsh frequencies are -- I'm guessing that's just a matter of experience. Thank you so much for this straightforward, easy to follow and understand tutorial.
Wow. Your voice sounds like night and day after EQ. This kind of awakened my perception of subtle differences in hearing my voices after EQ. Thanks, Curtis.
This is the best EQ lesson I've come across. Thank you for actually teaching how to do it rather than providing some prescribed formula! My ears are not yet trained but at least I have a starting point to try and listen for things as I am EQing!
Thanks for the link. I had subscribed to your channel a week or two ago. I need to go back through your library! This was exactly what I was looking for.
I enjoy your channel because you don't have your voice adjusted too bassy. We're conditioned as listeners in this decade to expect voices to be deeper so natural is out of favour and sounds thin online. In the sixties I started meeting several of the radio announcers working in Toronto and they were all about 4 inches shorter and 30 lbs. lighter than what I was expecting :) And that was just the AM guys. In the 70's the FM announcers sounded like James Earl Jones. I could spin into a rant about the abuse on TH-cam of the SM7B with EQ. Good EQ is possible like you demonstrate. I used to get unintentionally pranked in a sound room because they had my director's voice so dialed in that myself and others would "talk" to him thinking he was behind a door and there was no one there. It was the playback of his voice overs. Even the guy who did the original recording and mixing got confused sometimes.
@@DesertCookie It is important to do corrective EQ first - reduce the harsh resonances. Many people working with EQ for the first time generally try to boost bass or treble first but end up not removing the bad resonances, making the problem even worse. The general idea: Use cuts first. That may be all that you need.
More great stuff from Curtis. My only caution for others with less experience than him would be that sweeping a large, narrow boost around will tend to sound unpleasant at all frequencies and could lead you to believe they all need to be cut. Perhaps best to listen carefully for problems, try to imagine where they might sit and then go looking very specifically for that region.
Agreed, thanks Ben. Don't boost more than 9dB and keep in mind that while moving, things will sound sort of phase-y. Listen for the most harsh frequencies and only cut those.
Thank you! Informative and kept simple for newbies like me who need an entry level start to EQ. Instead of feeling intimidated and overwhelmed, i feel hopeful and empowered to tackle EQing my narration work. Much appreciated! 😅🤙🏼✨
EQ'ing is something I have always avoided and had someone else look into it for me. Thanks for the great tutorial Curtis, you're the only channel I go to for audio. 🙂
I merely comment on anyone's video. But I think you're the most helpful guy i've ever seen. So many of the TH-camr who tend to explain these types of stuff just never the nitty-gritty of the settings. But thanks to you. It's literally so annoying to not to know what's going on these types of softwares.
Hi Curtis, And just one question, can you please tell how you can make your audio more crisp. Please it would be helpful if you can provide any tips and trips to make your voice a little more crisp.
@@deepakchanana3937 You could use a high shelf and boost. Or if you want to be more precise, use a single boost and sweep until you find where it sounds good and crisp as you like it.
Thanks so much for this I'm learning tons and taking my audio just as seriously as image quality. Enjoying becoming an audio nerd and finally being able to understand the specs on microphone and recorder product pages a little better haha
I was JUST about to mix a podcast episode for my girlfriend's show and this came up on my feed. I'm still a novice and learning so I can take all the advice I can get and this hit just right. Thanks for the great and easy-to-follow content!
When I was doing concert PA, one trick that I used after the vocals' EQ had been set, and I needed a little help making a singer's voice cut through the din of the instruments, so the audience could hear the vocals and enunciation clearly was to find that range, usually somewhere between 1 & 4 kHz where the clarity of the voice was, boost it and cut the instruments by the same amount. I used the same method to find the center frequency at high Q, then lower the Q (broaden the frequency range) to cover just the desired frequencies. That is the most efficient way to use a parametric EQ IME.
Good point - when you need that mid-range to cut through a mix, you don't want to be cutting it like we did here. Context definitely matters. Thanks for sharing this!
This technique can be automated in most DAWs using sidechain EQ, sending the voice track to the music track as a control. When the voice signal is hot, it ducks the EQ band on the music, but leaves it alone the rest of the time.
If the data is helpful for anyone, I've just got these modest Mackie CR4 monitors running out of my 2013 iMac and the difference at 3:04 is already clear as day. So useful for folks like me who are kind of limited on the variety of mics they have on hand to work with and want to get as professional a sound as they can. Thanks as always! -Dave
So great! I've been doing a ton of interviews and have been struggling with this exact thing. Thank you for the effort and expertise you put into your videos. They are VERY much appreciated!!
Exactly the video I was looking for, thank you! Just doing a quick fix edit at the moment but going to take your full course when I have time next month.
My man.., Thanks a lot cause this has been the most helpful video on how to clean audio on spoken word. I just used this approach, and wow the difference was amazing. I'm finally happy with my audio, I was doing it by other youtubers guidelines, but I always ended up with an audio that I did not liked.., so I was starting to think that it was me. I have a fair microphone, not top quality, but good enough, and using this approach I could find the area where my mic gives a weird coloration to my voice, that when I cut it, the sound is soooo much better. Thank you, I was not subscribed, but just did. Keep up the good work.
@@curtisjudd Since watching this video, I've spent hours messing around with the Parametric EQ in Premiere. Created a new Pr file that's solely dedicated to EQing audio, for testing purposes. Been importing past talking head video footage...like one scene of this talent, one scene of another on-screen talent, and so on. I'm on the 6th voice, and have many more to go. They were all recorded with the same entry-level boom mic (Rode VideoMic Pro), within 1-2 ft of subject. Although the mic is a cheaper mic, it seems to do a pretty decent job (little bass heavy for some talent). Curtis, this has been such a fun exercise. I look forward to using this technique on every video, from here on out. Thank you for keeping video/audio interesting...and making your subscribers shine for their clients, viewers, etc. Appreciate you, man!
It's a better video explanation than I expected, I like that you explained cutting the start and end and raising those points for testing purposes, clever identification, but you lost me when you began winging it with levels at seemingly random parts. You know what you're doing and a professional I'd assume but from the outside you lost me halfway, I will try this in APO if it even exists natively, but now I need yet another video to show how to do that. Only place I've seen this equalizer was in Voicemeeter. I appreciate you didn't waffle on and kept to the subject.
Thanks for the feedback! It takes a little practice but you'll get it. The important thing is to boost by 9dB and move that back and forth, pausing at various frequencies to listen for distortion or extreme harshness. Then you know you need to cut there. Apply a cut and experiment with how much of a cut you want until is sounds good to your ears.
Very helpful video thanks Curtis. As an aside, yesterday I got some new headphones and literally the first thing I did (and have done in the past) is listen to some of your most recent microphone comparison vids, there a great way of getting an idea of quality of sound 😃
Thanks for sharing Curtis! I just started a youtube channel and I'm really getting into the inner mechanisms of sound mixing in order to boost the quality of my content. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Excellent friend Curtis, I am an enthusiastic photographer eager to venture into the world of audio and this helps me in a way. Greetings from Lima, Perú
Hi Curtis. For someone wanting to improve dialogue on a live stream, would the 833 be the ticket? From my understanding it offers compression and some EQ so I'd be able to improve dialogue live without having to add an additional piece of hardware. Granted it's an expensive way to achieve this but should work. What do you think?
Hi Ron, sure, the 833 could certainly do the job for a hefty price, but if you've already got it, this is definitely another thing it can do. I used my 888 for a livestream a couple of weeks ago. That isn't my normal mixer for live streaming but it fit the bill for that particular show.
@@curtisjudd thank you for the quick response Curtis. I already have a MixPre for my run and gun audio. I'm looking for something a bit more full featured to use for my livestreams as well as giving me a bit of kit that has a lot more capability than the MixPre. The 833 is definitely overkill but it saves me from having to buy a separate recording device and mixer. I tried the software route and was having sync issues. The 833 should be the mixer to end all mixers for live streaming. Buy once cry once right? :-)
@@RonHenry Hahaha! Yes, it is a sledgehammer solution, same that I did with the 888 purchase. If I don't get good sound with the 888, it isn't the 888's fault. 😀
@@curtisjudd Most definitely. I've been going through your live streams so I can hit the ground running when it arrives. Doesn't look too bad from what I'm seeing.
Very helpful Curtis, thank you so much! I've been overly reliant on VSTs and it will take some time to get to the level of comfort I have with a myriad of VSTs but it's not as daunting as I thought!
This is soooo good!! So I just listen to shit to then reverse the shit, brilliant! Definitely one of the better EQ explainer videos, thanks a lot, man. :)
Thank you so much! I've been toying with my voice-over for a few days, and it never sounded quite right to me. There was always something either kind of pithy or muddy, or nasally like you improve one thing and then the other gets worse :D But after your explanation of how to properly use the EQ I feel like I might just have found a nice-sounding result for my voice. Finally :D
I've noticed that when my ears become accustomed to looking for those frequencies, I start hearing imperfections even after I've gotten rid of said frequencies. It's weird.
Sometimes it helps to pause and listen to a reference track - a dialogue recording you've heard many times. Switch back and forth between them and that usually "resets" one's ears.
Best audio channel I’ve found on TH-cam! I’ll be watching this video again I’m sure... lots of knowledge here
Thanks and I love your lighting videos! Keep up the amazing work!
Your channel is wonderful, Curtis. There's so much work put in it and I've learnt a lot.
That's it, just wanted to chime in and say thanks.
Thanks so much, Álex!
It's amazing how much of a difference that EQ makes! Horrible without EQ on your voice, but **much** better with EQ
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Love this!!! I am working on my first audiobook... FINALLY found a way to sound legit!!! I bring the acting... but all this techno stuff is new to me... learning curve pegged! THANK YOU!!!
Thanks, Marla. Happy recording!
@@curtisjuddhelp me pleaseWhen I vote for a movie, the sound of the movie doesn't come out from the bottom, it's just like a normal record. Please help me. I'm Uzbek. No one from the state wanted to help us.
@@hayotimmazmuni2614 I hope the video did help. 👍
This was a great quick overview of how the Parametric Equalizer works. It would be great to see more videos going over the other audio repair tools found in popular software.
Thanks indy4s!
@@curtisjudd Hello Curtis, is there any other way to edit audio for films? I know special effects that you can add and stuff like that, compressiıng and EQ of course. But, is there any other way to edit audio? How do they edit professional films for movies? Thanks.
@@Dale_Blackburn Lots! Please see my channel for lots of other videos on the topic.
Mannnnnn, Curtis! I've only recently started getting more into EQ. Previously the MOST I would do is roll off the low-end to account for any rumble or proximity effect type stuff.
Hearing your example, I should have gotten into this sooner! But at least now, thanks to your video, I'm armed to better pull the best out of my dialog. THANK YOU!
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This sort of tutorial is exactly what most of tech youtube is missing. Thanks Curtis!
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Curtis, I couldn't help but laugh out loud when you had a -6dB cut with a Q of 2 and then saying "it's a subtle change" hahaha! You're the best man. A really helpful video, and an absolutely HORRIBLE sounding microphone on your voice. You definitely improved the sound on it a lot.
🙃 thanks Bandrew, means a lot coming from you!
No lie, I've been waiting for you (specifically) to put out this video.
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This is fantastic Curtis. Please more DAW/sound editing tutorials!
Sound is so often overlooked in production houses that put out daily/weekly content.
I wish there were 100 more people like you on YT!
Thanks Jack, you got it!
Just the kind of clear, concise and, most of all, useful tutorial the subject calls for. Virtually everyone has or deals with voices that might not be a perfect fit for this mic or that signal chain. Nobody has an infinite microphone locker. But everyone has ears. This provides a great guide for using them.
It's also a nice antidote to the temptation of wasting time and money chasing some holy grail microphone. There isn't one. And while you obviously cannot turn a Blue Yeti into a U87, you can certainly make most voices fit most mics well enough to be pleasing and credible to most listeners. Thanks, again, for underscoring that sometimes overlooked idea.
Thanks Winging It!
So many tutorials I’ve seen give ranges of hertz you should boost or lower for male and female vocals. I found myself constantly referring back to their resources and mindlessly plugging in numbers. I love this tutorial because you actually teach us what to listen for and take matters into our own hands!
My hope is to empower YOU. 👍
Hey, just stumbled across this video after spending way too many hours trying to EQ my voice. Must say this was one of the easiest to follow. Clear instructions and info made it super easy to (I hope) find what needed to be fixed and adjust it. Cheers
Glad it helped. Happy mixing!
I have seen this done many time by many great audio techs but this is by far the best example of the subject. You nailed it Curtis🏆 😉 Very well done.
Thanks Samson!
I bought a wirless lapel mic a while back thinking that this is what will push my video quality over the edge. But now I relisten to some of my videos and wished I'd done EQ, even relatively cheap microphones like mine can sound much better with some EQ'ing. Thank you so much for this tutorial!
You're welcome! Yes, little by little improvement is the the name of the game.
Thank you Curtis,
You are a benchmark for high quality (not only production quality) instructions and information on the industry. Huge respect.
Thanks George.
TH-cam had me running around for an hour trying to find what I didn't know would be this video. Thanks for teaching to the point with clear examples of before and after.
Thanks Grant.
Exactly what I needed. Thank you for the detailed quick explanation and process. I’m ready to try this out!
Happy EQing!
Wow. You're right about the mic voice miss match lol. Dope video as always Brutha.
Haha! That Sanken works so well on so many voices, but it doesn’t like mine. Thanks and hope you’re doing rad!
2 big giants
Darious I'm a huge fan of You man, greetings from México
Just tweaked a video I'm working on for a client after watching this and wow what a difference! Went back and fixed the previous three before they're published. The hardest part for me is just identifying by ear what those harsh frequencies are -- I'm guessing that's just a matter of experience. Thank you so much for this straightforward, easy to follow and understand tutorial.
Glad to hear it helped, Martin! Yes, if you're already hearing a positive difference, you've already started to develop your ear. Good work!
Wow. Your voice sounds like night and day after EQ. This kind of awakened my perception of subtle differences in hearing my voices after EQ. Thanks, Curtis.
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Solid, simple, and to the point, love it. Great work as always Curtis.
Thanks Tommy!
This is the best EQ lesson I've come across. Thank you for actually teaching how to do it rather than providing some prescribed formula! My ears are not yet trained but at least I have a starting point to try and listen for things as I am EQing!
Thanks Erin!
Thanks for the link. I had subscribed to your channel a week or two ago. I need to go back through your library! This was exactly what I was looking for.
Glad it was helpful!
A much needed tutorial on using EQ to improve voice audio recordings. You really are the guru of audio. Thanks so much for this.
Thanks Todd.
Zero fat in this video, just purely the exact information needed, perfect starting place to learn.
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I enjoy your channel because you don't have your voice adjusted too bassy. We're conditioned as listeners in this decade to expect voices to be deeper so natural is out of favour and sounds thin online. In the sixties I started meeting several of the radio announcers working in Toronto and they were all about 4 inches shorter and 30 lbs. lighter than what I was expecting :) And that was just the AM guys. In the 70's the FM announcers sounded like James Earl Jones. I could spin into a rant about the abuse on TH-cam of the SM7B with EQ.
Good EQ is possible like you demonstrate. I used to get unintentionally pranked in a sound room because they had my director's voice so dialed in that myself and others would "talk" to him thinking he was behind a door and there was no one there. It was the playback of his voice overs. Even the guy who did the original recording and mixing got confused sometimes.
Thanks Charlie. We prefer to keep it real around here. 👍
I love your videos. I watched your reviews on the tascam x8 and zoom f3 like a million times
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These are super helpful same with the compressor video on the rhodecaster please keep up the good work
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Anyone watching, notice how he cuts before boosting? That's a golden rule of EQ
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Could you elaborate? I don't know if this is a language barrier problem or if I'm just missing some base knowledge to understand this.
@@DesertCookie It is important to do corrective EQ first - reduce the harsh resonances. Many people working with EQ for the first time generally try to boost bass or treble first but end up not removing the bad resonances, making the problem even worse. The general idea: Use cuts first. That may be all that you need.
@@DesertCookie The best practice is to reduce certain frequencies before increasing the intensity of others.
You have a truly useful channel.
Thanks Peter.
More great stuff from Curtis. My only caution for others with less experience than him would be that sweeping a large, narrow boost around will tend to sound unpleasant at all frequencies and could lead you to believe they all need to be cut. Perhaps best to listen carefully for problems, try to imagine where they might sit and then go looking very specifically for that region.
Agreed, thanks Ben. Don't boost more than 9dB and keep in mind that while moving, things will sound sort of phase-y. Listen for the most harsh frequencies and only cut those.
This is probably the MOST useful EQ tutorial I've found on youtube. Congrats Curtis!
Thanks skyhr!
OK here I am at 4am trying to find my mic to record something to audition just to try it. Excellent content as usual Curtis.
Hi Isaac, hahaha! Thanks and I hope it helps in the long run. Now go get some sleep!
This video was amazing Curtis. I can’t believe this exists for free on TH-cam. You truly are such a great resource for filmmakers!
Thanks Griffin, means a lot coming from you!
Thank you! Informative and kept simple for newbies like me who need an entry level start to EQ. Instead of feeling intimidated and overwhelmed, i feel hopeful and empowered to tackle EQing my narration work. Much appreciated! 😅🤙🏼✨
Thanks Sara 🙏
So short, but SOOO good! Shorter is better when the value is high! Thanks Curtis!
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Great as always Curtis 👍
Thanks MasterStroke Media.
EQ'ing is something I have always avoided and had someone else look into it for me. Thanks for the great tutorial Curtis, you're the only channel I go to for audio. 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
I merely comment on anyone's video. But I think you're the most helpful guy i've ever seen. So many of the TH-camr who tend to explain these types of stuff just never the nitty-gritty of the settings. But thanks to you. It's literally so annoying to not to know what's going on these types of softwares.
Thanks Deepak.
Hi Curtis,
And just one question, can you please tell how you can make your audio more crisp. Please it would be helpful if you can provide any tips and trips to make your voice a little more crisp.
@@deepakchanana3937 You could use a high shelf and boost. Or if you want to be more precise, use a single boost and sweep until you find where it sounds good and crisp as you like it.
Excellent tutorial. Now I'm happy with what i'm producing with Parametric EQ
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This is one of the best pieces of EQ advice I get from YT. Super helpful. Thanks a ton!
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Best tutorial ever! Thanks!!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this I'm learning tons and taking my audio just as seriously as image quality. Enjoying becoming an audio nerd and finally being able to understand the specs on microphone and recorder product pages a little better haha
Thanks Mike!
very concise and original. thanks Curtis. EQ can be a tough one as it's not about the effects, but the removal of what is there.
Thanks mrmattbigelow.
I was JUST about to mix a podcast episode for my girlfriend's show and this came up on my feed. I'm still a novice and learning so I can take all the advice I can get and this hit just right. Thanks for the great and easy-to-follow content!
Thanks Joshua and best wishes on the edit!
Thank you for this. Massive learning curve trying to tune my voice. Your little tutorials have really helped
Thanks Irishpixel.
This may be the best video I've seen so far. Straight to the point and easy to understand. Thanks! 😍
Thanks Andreas.
Brief and Concise! Thank you!
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When I was doing concert PA, one trick that I used after the vocals' EQ had been set, and I needed a little help making a singer's voice cut through the din of the instruments, so the audience could hear the vocals and enunciation clearly was to find that range, usually somewhere between 1 & 4 kHz where the clarity of the voice was, boost it and cut the instruments by the same amount. I used the same method to find the center frequency at high Q, then lower the Q (broaden the frequency range) to cover just the desired frequencies. That is the most efficient way to use a parametric EQ IME.
Good point - when you need that mid-range to cut through a mix, you don't want to be cutting it like we did here. Context definitely matters. Thanks for sharing this!
This technique can be automated in most DAWs using sidechain EQ, sending the voice track to the music track as a control. When the voice signal is hot, it ducks the EQ band on the music, but leaves it alone the rest of the time.
@@baza210 Good for post workflows, not necessarily for live (concert PA).
Much appreciated Curtis!
Thanks!
That's the best eq tutorial I've seen. Thanks.
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If the data is helpful for anyone, I've just got these modest Mackie CR4 monitors running out of my 2013 iMac and the difference at 3:04 is already clear as day. So useful for folks like me who are kind of limited on the variety of mics they have on hand to work with and want to get as professional a sound as they can. Thanks as always! -Dave
Thanks Dave.
Yes very thank you Curtis!
You are welcome!
Look! I finding videos I missed!! LOL. Good stuff as always. 👍
Thanks Kevin! Always nice to have you drop by!
And still you are CJ secret "stalker"😄
@@magnusgotander7788 Not so secret. 😀
What a perfect guide video. Thank you bro.
You're welcome.
Curtis Judd dropping the knowledge for us with higher audio aspirations!!! Thanks🙏🏻
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Amazing as always Curtis! Thanks
Thanks Kreigh!
Great video! Saved for later reference and use
Thanks!
Thanks, Curtis. We need more sound tutorials from You!
Thanks! You got it!
thank you! I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be hearing but this helped!
Glad it helped! Listen for harsh, sometimes whistling types of distortion. Unpleasantness in general.
Very helpful tx will try this technique
Thanks and best wishes!
really nice tweaking tipps, thx for that
Thanks.
Thanks for this, Curtis!
You are most welcome!
...EQtastic...!!! Thanks again, Curtis...!!
Thanks Ian!
So great! I've been doing a ton of interviews and have been struggling with this exact thing. Thank you for the effort and expertise you put into your videos. They are VERY much appreciated!!
Thanks Sean!
Exactly the video I was looking for, thank you! Just doing a quick fix edit at the moment but going to take your full course when I have time next month.
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Amazing video! Thanks. Sound difference in this example is like between night and day. Really good and helpful tutorial.
Thanks.
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Thank you, Jona. Happy audio mixing!
My man.., Thanks a lot cause this has been the most helpful video on how to clean audio on spoken word. I just used this approach, and wow the difference was amazing. I'm finally happy with my audio, I was doing it by other youtubers guidelines, but I always ended up with an audio that I did not liked.., so I was starting to think that it was me. I have a fair microphone, not top quality, but good enough, and using this approach I could find the area where my mic gives a weird coloration to my voice, that when I cut it, the sound is soooo much better.
Thank you, I was not subscribed, but just did.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks Josh and glad it helped!
Fabulous video, mate.
Thanks, mate!
Awesome video, Curtis! Pure gold, like always.
Thank you for the education. I truly appreciate your generosity (time, effort, etc).
Thanks Southpaw Autoworks!
@@curtisjudd Since watching this video, I've spent hours messing around with the Parametric EQ in Premiere. Created a new Pr file that's solely dedicated to EQing audio, for testing purposes. Been importing past talking head video footage...like one scene of this talent, one scene of another on-screen talent, and so on. I'm on the 6th voice, and have many more to go. They were all recorded with the same entry-level boom mic (Rode VideoMic Pro), within 1-2 ft of subject. Although the mic is a cheaper mic, it seems to do a pretty decent job (little bass heavy for some talent).
Curtis, this has been such a fun exercise. I look forward to using this technique on every video, from here on out. Thank you for keeping video/audio interesting...and making your subscribers shine for their clients, viewers, etc. Appreciate you, man!
@@SouthpawAutoworks That's great news! Thanks for the feedback and keep making great sound!
It's a better video explanation than I expected, I like that you explained cutting the start and end and raising those points for testing purposes, clever identification, but you lost me when you began winging it with levels at seemingly random parts. You know what you're doing and a professional I'd assume but from the outside you lost me halfway, I will try this in APO if it even exists natively, but now I need yet another video to show how to do that. Only place I've seen this equalizer was in Voicemeeter. I appreciate you didn't waffle on and kept to the subject.
Thanks for the feedback! It takes a little practice but you'll get it. The important thing is to boost by 9dB and move that back and forth, pausing at various frequencies to listen for distortion or extreme harshness. Then you know you need to cut there. Apply a cut and experiment with how much of a cut you want until is sounds good to your ears.
Very helpful video thanks Curtis.
As an aside, yesterday I got some new headphones and literally the first thing I did (and have done in the past) is listen to some of your most recent microphone comparison vids, there a great way of getting an idea of quality of sound 😃
Congrats on the new headphones and thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for sharing Curtis! I just started a youtube channel and I'm really getting into the inner mechanisms of sound mixing in order to boost the quality of my content. Thanks so much for sharing this.
You're welcome and best wishes on your videos!
@@curtisjudd Thanks! XD
Thank you so much, Curtis! You make a daunting process so simple and manageable. Great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
I didn't know about it. I came here from your comment in epic light media. Love your video!!
👍 Thanks for coming by!
Excellent friend Curtis, I am an enthusiastic photographer eager to venture into the world of audio and this helps me in a way. Greetings from Lima, Perú
Thank you JuanCa Sotelo. Happy recording!
Magnificent! Thank you. Yes it was helpful. Nicely helps me push towards better quality sound in my daily vlogs. 🙏
Thanks PWE!
Hi Curtis. For someone wanting to improve dialogue on a live stream, would the 833 be the ticket? From my understanding it offers compression and some EQ so I'd be able to improve dialogue live without having to add an additional piece of hardware. Granted it's an expensive way to achieve this but should work. What do you think?
Hi Ron, sure, the 833 could certainly do the job for a hefty price, but if you've already got it, this is definitely another thing it can do. I used my 888 for a livestream a couple of weeks ago. That isn't my normal mixer for live streaming but it fit the bill for that particular show.
@@curtisjudd thank you for the quick response Curtis. I already have a MixPre for my run and gun audio. I'm looking for something a bit more full featured to use for my livestreams as well as giving me a bit of kit that has a lot more capability than the MixPre. The 833 is definitely overkill but it saves me from having to buy a separate recording device and mixer. I tried the software route and was having sync issues. The 833 should be the mixer to end all mixers for live streaming. Buy once cry once right? :-)
@@RonHenry Hahaha! Yes, it is a sledgehammer solution, same that I did with the 888 purchase. If I don't get good sound with the 888, it isn't the 888's fault. 😀
@@curtisjudd Most definitely. I've been going through your live streams so I can hit the ground running when it arrives. Doesn't look too bad from what I'm seeing.
Very helpful Curtis, thank you so much! I've been overly reliant on VSTs and it will take some time to get to the level of comfort I have with a myriad of VSTs but it's not as daunting as I thought!
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Amazing tip - thanks, this video helped immensely
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Another brilliant and very informative video. Thank you Curtis.
Thanks Anthony.
This is amazing! I've been looking for a good EQ tutorial. Thanks for this, Curtis. Keep up the great content!
Thanks Garrick, will do!
My favorite channel for audio editing!!
Can you make a video on audio editing 3-4 people using lavs and how to get the best sound in post?
Thanks Michael, I’ll add it to the list when I come across a recording with 4 lavs.
@@curtisjudd Thanks. Doesn’t necessarily have to 4 but just more then 1.
subscribed: one of the best eq videos out there
Thanks, Thomas.
Just what I needed. Thanks.
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One of the best video's I've seen on EQ-ing, thanks Curtis!
👍 thanks Wyste.
@@curtisjudd I wish I could thumb it up multipul times. Just watched it again before going into a voice-over audiomix.
This is soooo good!!
So I just listen to shit to then reverse the shit, brilliant!
Definitely one of the better EQ explainer videos, thanks a lot, man. :)
Hahaha! Thanks. Find the crappy parts and cut there.
This is excellent, thanks 🙏
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Thank you so much! I've been toying with my voice-over for a few days, and it never sounded quite right to me. There was always something either kind of pithy or muddy, or nasally like you improve one thing and then the other gets worse :D But after your explanation of how to properly use the EQ I feel like I might just have found a nice-sounding result for my voice. Finally :D
That’s great!
Thanks for this, it really helped me understand eq while setting up equalizer apo on my mic.
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Thanks man i appreciate a lot your work, i learned a lot from your videos.
Thanks Zuma.
aw cool. more stuff like this!
Thanks, will do!
I've noticed that when my ears become accustomed to looking for those frequencies, I start hearing imperfections even after I've gotten rid of said frequencies. It's weird.
Sometimes it helps to pause and listen to a reference track - a dialogue recording you've heard many times. Switch back and forth between them and that usually "resets" one's ears.
Love it. Thanks!
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Best voice EQ video! How about limiting?
Thanks. Good idea on limiting!
Very helpful. Thanks.
You are most welcome.
wow. Terrific. Clear. Thanks.
Thanks Laurie.
Thank you very much, great video!
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