Auphonic has so many great features. Without it my podcast wouldn't have survived the first episode in 2015 because it automates so many steps that the workload in my (very special) scenario is manageable. I'm more than happy to buy credits for all the work it takes away from me.
Wow, this is unbelievable Curtis! Thanks so much for sharing this. I struggle getting my voice to sound right but this really does a great job in nailing it.
Wow! I just tried this out and Auphonic is incredible. Much better results than what I've been able to get with Adobe's "Enhance Speech" tools. Thanks for the walk through!
Thanks for your settings. I’m using this service for more than a year now, and I’m just uploading the whole video to auphonic, and then edit it in resolve.
I have been using Auphonic’s for years now since you introduced me to it and just love it. Always does a great job. Highly recommended for anyone, like me, who struggles a little with sound.
I've edited an entire 30min "live" sitcom episode with 9 mics by hand. This helped to level and de-noise all of it so fast, and I barely had to open RX (given the recordings were not terrible to start with, but definitely needed some work). Amazing tool that finally is up to the task. Not perfect, I would not use it on a movie, but still... It can actually save you time to make creative decisions instead of being a human loudness adjuster... My recommendation is to use even more conservative settings than shown in the video (-6dB is enough compression if you're targeting -23LUFs. Also, -6 to -9dB of noise reduction works fine), and if needed do the rest yourself. You'll probably still have to ad you own compression, Eq and denoise some very specific problem areas, like lav rustles underneath the dialog, big plosives etc. I heard they used to have a standalone version, it is a shame they took it down for this format... Should this be a vst/aax/au plugin? Yes. Would I pay for it? Definitely! On a subscription model? Hell no! As always Curtis, great video!
Auphonic's mouth declicking is actually really impressive. It's the only 'declicker' I've used that manages to avoid parts of the speech that other declickers dig into. According to their website part of their denoiser's neural network (whatever it's called) was trained on mouth noises. Unfortunately you can't seperate the general broadband noise reduction from the mouth declicking. I've used it on a few hour long podcasts that had some heavy mouth noises to save a lot of time. I'd really love a standalone declicker like that.
Auphonic has been incredibly helpful to me. I’m also amazed at how cheap it is. Thanks for this very helpful video. I appreciated being able to see what settings you recommend.
Ive just bought myself a mic preamp for the first time and as a consequence, I’m having to tweak my levels in the DAW a lot more. This application could be really handy and save a lot of time. I didn’t even know such things existed. Cheers Curtis.
Extremely helpful video, especially the Auphonic settings. I agree - their debreath feature works better with 12 db of noise reduction, but even then I found it a bit aggressive at times. Overall though I think Auphonic is great.
My own workflow is to mix my podcast or audio project in logic Pro, then, instead of doing the final mastering step, I upload the mix to Auphonic to do the job. Outstanding results.
Thank you for publishing this very interesting video. As an experiment, I compared Auphonic's output with an audio track that I mixed and processed in Resolve (EQ, Compressor, Limiter) and the resulting output from Auphonic was almost identical to what I had achieved. I don't claim to be an audio expert (far from it) but I either did a good job (which was probably a fluke) or Auphonic didn't add much. I'll try Auphonic again (two free hours per month is well beyond my needs) but I'm not sure that I'll use it as a long term part of my workflow. However, it is good to know these types of products are out there. Audio processing is one of the hardest parts of post-production and there might be times where the assistance Auphonic provides could be really useful.
Wow Curtis, that app is really amazing, thank you for demonstrating it, I will have to check that out. I am currently doing audio in Audition, and not really optimizing the audio over in Premiere that much, but this workflow makes so much sense.
Thanks for this Curtis. I haven't used Auphonic for year's as I'm an RX user, but I didn't know about bouncing tracks in Davinci and that's super useful function. I previously just rendered it all out as a WAV file then processed that in RX. Not sure if there's any fundamental difference, but it looks like a neater workflow. Will have a crack at it - much appreciated 🙏
Hi Curtis, can you help with some specs/settings for movie dialogue (without music) ? i struggle to find the right ones (de-noise, clean etc). thanks !
Thanks Curtis, I just tried this and it cleaned up my audio very nicely. One question for you though, I use a MixPre-6ii, and have considered purchasing the NoiseAssist plugin. Do you find Auphonic replacing the need of NoiseAssist, or are there still cases NoiseAssist (or the combination of the two) may be useful?
Curtis, do you do any EQ work in post if using Auphonic? I typically do some EQ using FabFilter Pro-Q. Would the EQ'ing in Auphonic be as good that it would save me this step?
Hey @Curtisjudd would love to see a FCPX audio step-by-step tutorial from you. I've gathered tricks and tips from you and others over the years, and have my process, but there are still holes in my process that leave me scratching my head on every project.
@@curtisjudd Hey again - I was trying to figure out the best way to normalize my audio levels for boomed talking head audio. I have a Compressor + Limiter + EQ custom setting combo that I've been using that works ok-ish. However, I recently noticed there's a Loudness effect in FCPX. It has Amount and Uniformity sliders. It did an amazing job boosting my signal in a seemingly smart way. It seems to have some sort of limiter and compressor-type effects happening in the background. Any thoughts on using this feature vs going the traditional route for normalizing interview audio? I work with kids (pre-school) and do 40+ interviews every year in a graduation video project. During their interview, some are quiet, some are loud, some are both! I have watched tons of your videos on audio enhancement, as well as others, and my goal is to find a cookie-cutter way to "slap on" a blanket adjustment that will get me 95% there. I'd essentially love to slap on my own preset of effects, and then only have to make minor adjustments, if any, from there. Any tips here? Bonus question: Is there ever a scenario where you use the Volume slider to raise / lower your your levels? Or do you always use more complex tools like the compressor/limiter? If so, what scenarios do you use the Volume adjustment? Thanks!
Very cool, question about your normalization. Say you loudness normalize a 32 bit float clip to -18 LUFS and lets say theres a cough or laugh thats now clipped but the regular speech is good. If you put a compressor on it would the clipped parts still be clipped or is the software smart enough to know the clip data isnt actually clipped especially with 32 bit float? Something I have been pondering since I dont know if I would need to manually then go in through premiere/davinci and "gain down" those certain clipped parts before anything like a compressor that would reduce that potential clipped portion.
Hi Curtis - this is awesome - thanks! Great timing as I'm just finishing editing a YT video. At what editing stage would you recommend using Auphonics - in the middle or right at the very end?
Just one question: Why would you use something like this? Why don't you just balance the tracks and use eq and compression in Resolves Fairlight? P.S. I loved the DJI Mic 2 vs Rode Wireless review! Good stuff! Thank you!
Just one question: why would you press the comment button? Why not just open terminal and compose a python script to post a comment to this video using the TH-cam api? 🙄🙄😒
Wouldn't it be better to send a multitrack wave file to Auphonic instead of a stereo mix that's already flatten? Alternatively, we could process the two tracks separately and perform the crossfade in this example. I read on auphonic that "Auphonic Multitrack takes multiple parallel input audio tracks, " but maybe it's a payed features but anyway. Didn't know if I should send this question to live stream or here but now i did here.
That’s another great topic! Less important here with just one dialogue and one music track, but definitely important when you have 2 or more dialogue tracks with mic bleed.
Auphonic is an absolutely fantastic tool that I have been using for years now. Especially for multitrack podcasts / interviews it’s invaluable.
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Auphonic has so many great features. Without it my podcast wouldn't have survived the first episode in 2015 because it automates so many steps that the workload in my (very special) scenario is manageable.
I'm more than happy to buy credits for all the work it takes away from me.
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I don’t very often use tools like this, but when I need to Auphonic is the best one I’ve used so far. Better than Adobe Podcast. Great vid!
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Wow, this is unbelievable Curtis! Thanks so much for sharing this. I struggle getting my voice to sound right but this really does a great job in nailing it.
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Wow! I just tried this out and Auphonic is incredible. Much better results than what I've been able to get with Adobe's "Enhance Speech" tools. Thanks for the walk through!
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Always offering outstanding videos, this is one of your best!
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You channel dramatically leveled up my audio. Thanks!
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Curtis, these tips are so helpful. Thank you for the work you do.
You're most welcome! 👍
Thanks for your settings.
I’m using this service for more than a year now, and I’m just uploading the whole video to auphonic, and then edit it in resolve.
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I have been using Auphonic’s for years now since you introduced me to it and just love it. Always does a great job. Highly recommended for anyone, like me, who struggles a little with sound.
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Your channel has been so helpful for my amateur level filmmaking and helping it to get better constantly!
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I've edited an entire 30min "live" sitcom episode with 9 mics by hand. This helped to level and de-noise all of it so fast, and I barely had to open RX (given the recordings were not terrible to start with, but definitely needed some work).
Amazing tool that finally is up to the task. Not perfect, I would not use it on a movie, but still... It can actually save you time to make creative decisions instead of being a human loudness adjuster...
My recommendation is to use even more conservative settings than shown in the video (-6dB is enough compression if you're targeting -23LUFs. Also, -6 to -9dB of noise reduction works fine), and if needed do the rest yourself. You'll probably still have to ad you own compression, Eq and denoise some very specific problem areas, like lav rustles underneath the dialog, big plosives etc.
I heard they used to have a standalone version, it is a shame they took it down for this format...
Should this be a vst/aax/au plugin? Yes.
Would I pay for it? Definitely!
On a subscription model? Hell no!
As always Curtis, great video!
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Auphonic's mouth declicking is actually really impressive. It's the only 'declicker' I've used that manages to avoid parts of the speech that other declickers dig into. According to their website part of their denoiser's neural network (whatever it's called) was trained on mouth noises. Unfortunately you can't seperate the general broadband noise reduction from the mouth declicking. I've used it on a few hour long podcasts that had some heavy mouth noises to save a lot of time. I'd really love a standalone declicker like that.
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Auphonic has been incredibly helpful to me. I’m also amazed at how cheap it is. Thanks for this very helpful video. I appreciated being able to see what settings you recommend.
👍 Glad to hear Auphonic does a nice job for you. I was impressed at what it did in this sample…
Never heard of this system - tried it for voices and it's great. Thanks for pointing to it.
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Ive just bought myself a mic preamp for the first time and as a consequence, I’m having to tweak my levels in the DAW a lot more. This application could be really handy and save a lot of time. I didn’t even know such things existed. Cheers Curtis.
Happy mixing!
@@curtisjudd thanks mate!
Incredible! Thank you very much!
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Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.
No problem 👍
Extremely helpful video, especially the Auphonic settings. I agree - their debreath feature works better with 12 db of noise reduction, but even then I found it a bit aggressive at times. Overall though I think Auphonic is great.
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My own workflow is to mix my podcast or audio project in logic Pro, then, instead of doing the final mastering step, I upload the mix to Auphonic to do the job. Outstanding results.
👍
Thank you for publishing this very interesting video. As an experiment, I compared Auphonic's output with an audio track that I mixed and processed in Resolve (EQ, Compressor, Limiter) and the resulting output from Auphonic was almost identical to what I had achieved. I don't claim to be an audio expert (far from it) but I either did a good job (which was probably a fluke) or Auphonic didn't add much. I'll try Auphonic again (two free hours per month is well beyond my needs) but I'm not sure that I'll use it as a long term part of my workflow. However, it is good to know these types of products are out there. Audio processing is one of the hardest parts of post-production and there might be times where the assistance Auphonic provides could be really useful.
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Wow Curtis, that app is really amazing, thank you for demonstrating it, I will have to check that out. I am currently doing audio in Audition, and not really optimizing the audio over in Premiere that much, but this workflow makes so much sense.
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Thanks for this Curtis. I haven't used Auphonic for year's as I'm an RX user, but I didn't know about bouncing tracks in Davinci and that's super useful function. I previously just rendered it all out as a WAV file then processed that in RX. Not sure if there's any fundamental difference, but it looks like a neater workflow. Will have a crack at it - much appreciated 🙏
You can also set up RX as an external process for and even faster round trip.
@@curtisjudd yes I have done that with a single track but being able to do it using this bounced track approach will be super swift. Thanks Curtis 🙏
Hi Curtis, can you help with some specs/settings for movie dialogue (without music) ? i struggle to find the right ones (de-noise, clean etc). thanks !
Thanks Curtis, I just tried this and it cleaned up my audio very nicely.
One question for you though, I use a MixPre-6ii, and have considered purchasing the NoiseAssist plugin. Do you find Auphonic replacing the need of NoiseAssist, or are there still cases NoiseAssist (or the combination of the two) may be useful?
For live sound, NoiseAssist can be very helpful
It also exports into mp4 so you dont have to do any more post production!
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Curtis, do you do any EQ work in post if using Auphonic? I typically do some EQ using FabFilter Pro-Q. Would the EQ'ing in Auphonic be as good that it would save me this step?
I usually do all my own post processing, just demoing this for all those video people who want it automated. So yes, I do my own EQ pass.
Hey @Curtisjudd would love to see a FCPX audio step-by-step tutorial from you. I've gathered tricks and tips from you and others over the years, and have my process, but there are still holes in my process that leave me scratching my head on every project.
We got you: th-cam.com/video/SsRexob7faM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
@@curtisjudd thanks!
@@curtisjudd Hey again - I was trying to figure out the best way to normalize my audio levels for boomed talking head audio. I have a Compressor + Limiter + EQ custom setting combo that I've been using that works ok-ish.
However, I recently noticed there's a Loudness effect in FCPX. It has Amount and Uniformity sliders. It did an amazing job boosting my signal in a seemingly smart way. It seems to have some sort of limiter and compressor-type effects happening in the background.
Any thoughts on using this feature vs going the traditional route for normalizing interview audio?
I work with kids (pre-school) and do 40+ interviews every year in a graduation video project. During their interview, some are quiet, some are loud, some are both! I have watched tons of your videos on audio enhancement, as well as others, and my goal is to find a cookie-cutter way to "slap on" a blanket adjustment that will get me 95% there. I'd essentially love to slap on my own preset of effects, and then only have to make minor adjustments, if any, from there.
Any tips here?
Bonus question: Is there ever a scenario where you use the Volume slider to raise / lower your your levels? Or do you always use more complex tools like the compressor/limiter? If so, what scenarios do you use the Volume adjustment?
Thanks!
This sounds pretty cool, what seating would you use if you had sound effects?
Seating?
@@curtisjudd settings stupid autocorrect
@@SleevelessMTG Oh, sorry about that. I'd probably turn noise reduction off.
Very cool, question about your normalization. Say you loudness normalize a 32 bit float clip to -18 LUFS and lets say theres a cough or laugh thats now clipped but the regular speech is good. If you put a compressor on it would the clipped parts still be clipped or is the software smart enough to know the clip data isnt actually clipped especially with 32 bit float? Something I have been pondering since I dont know if I would need to manually then go in through premiere/davinci and "gain down" those certain clipped parts before anything like a compressor that would reduce that potential clipped portion.
Apps which can handle 32-bit float should be able to manage all this with a compressor.
Hi Curtis - this is awesome - thanks! Great timing as I'm just finishing editing a YT video. At what editing stage would you recommend using Auphonics - in the middle or right at the very end?
Very end 👍
Will it retain Timecode meta data?
Just one question: Why would you use something like this? Why don't you just balance the tracks and use eq and compression in Resolves Fairlight?
P.S. I loved the DJI Mic 2 vs Rode Wireless review! Good stuff! Thank you!
Great question. I would normally handle this myself. But many people prefer to have a tool do it for them.
Just one question: why would you press the comment button? Why not just open terminal and compose a python script to post a comment to this video using the TH-cam api?
🙄🙄😒
@@iComplainer 💡😅
@@iComplainer exactly! 😂
Wouldn't it be better to send a multitrack wave file to Auphonic instead of a stereo mix that's already flatten? Alternatively, we could process the two tracks separately and perform the crossfade in this example. I read on auphonic that "Auphonic Multitrack takes multiple parallel input audio tracks, " but maybe it's a payed features but anyway. Didn't know if I should send this question to live stream or here but now i did here.
That’s another great topic! Less important here with just one dialogue and one music track, but definitely important when you have 2 or more dialogue tracks with mic bleed.
Multitrack is only available for paid credits, yes .
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Im assuming that this would work in premiere as well.
Yes
I wonder how this compares with Adobe Podcast Beta?
Way more control with Auphonic.
@@RobSpiv Thanks for sharing, Rob. 👍
Adobe is on the right track with integration of Podcast. Now if only Apple could offer something like this. FCP is languishing.
aww, boo subscription plugins.
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@@curtisjuddI think he’s upset that he has to pay for things other people have worked hard to create.
@@StarWarsJayI wish I could afford to give my services away for free (beyond the generous 2 free hours per month that Auphonic gives).
@@StarWarsJay People are willing to pay for a good product. Fuck subscriptions and their rent seeking behaviour. Same with games as a service scam.
I use the pay as you go plan, so you don’t have to have a subscription.