Omg, that was intense. Looks like I need to experiment with moving from Davinci Resolve’s Fairlight DAW to something more full-featured. Could you expand on recording at -18 - -12 instead of -12 - -6? Is it about increasing room rejection? As always, thanks for sharing your expertise!
Haha yeah for sure this was probable the most in-the-weeds mixing tutorial I’ve done! And yeah sure! Two things, first you’re exactly right, on dynamic microphones in particular more gain = more room noise and in some cases more preamp noise. But also, if you’re processing vocals things afterwards, there isn’t much headroom for proper gain staging. If you add gain through compression, distortion, or whatever, there isn’t much room to grow before it begins to clip :) cheers dude!
Alright Mr. Haze (or should I say Master given your new qualification? :) ) 1) congrats on graduating, thats a huge feat! and 2) I followed your useful advice on getting a budget mic (yes, got the SM57, its great!) as well as the audio interface you were discussing. I was wondering if you can help me with a voiceover chain similar to the one you made for James? I am amazed at the quality of sound you managed to get, and despite the sm57 being a great mic, my sound quality is no where close. Would really appreciate your help here, and happy to send an audio sample
Great video, been loving your channel. One question, why is it important to increase the dB level throughout the chain rather than just using a Utility at the end before the limiter?
hey chief its me again hehe I have a question for you, which mic do you think its more Sibilant? The NT1 or the SM57? Im between getting the NT1, SM57 and AT4040... I tried making it work with my AT2035 but I cant, the mic is good but man the sibilance is so harsh... I got traumatized over sibilance so Im trynna get the less sibilant mic I can lol
Hey did you graduate from Berklee? Congratulations. Graduation presents to yourself; Air conditioner and a microphone. I don’t know who is listening to all these podcasts of random people. However, when the podcasting bubble pops there will be really good deals on boom arms and microphones. Too bad guitars aren’t a trend everyone is jumping on, I could use some good deals.
James voice is really crackly like he’s going through puberty and conveys a lack of enthusiasm. I would add a light autotune and slightly speed up the audio to cover up the crackling in his voice and add enthusiasm while also giving the listener less opportunity to notice all the flaws in his voice. Of course, former MTV VJ Nina Blackwood has the absolute worse voice like she smoked to much and has a tracheotomy and had a decent TV and radio career so maybe perfecting a voice isn’t 100% necessary. Still, I think that the clip you were working with is really tough and did a good job of cleaning it up,
The more I'm seeing your videos, the more the Shure sm57 is becoming a great mic to use for everything.
Thanks dude! Haha okay well to be fair in this vid it was running through that mastering chain, so it got a little help :)
Honestly, you can’t go wrong with the sm57 or sm58. They’re amazing.
Not the best mic for anything but a good mic for everything
I keep hearing from vo artists that the 57 is shit mic for quality vo but this sounds really good. Who's right ?
Danke!
Thank you as always Rainer! You're too generous :)
Commenting even be for watching.
Cause I have blind faith in you.
Love this.
Rafay your comments make literally everyone video better thank you so much
@@AudioHaze Really means alot
Another great video! Thanks.
Omg, that was intense. Looks like I need to experiment with moving from Davinci Resolve’s Fairlight DAW to something more full-featured.
Could you expand on recording at -18 - -12 instead of -12 - -6? Is it about increasing room rejection?
As always, thanks for sharing your expertise!
Haha yeah for sure this was probable the most in-the-weeds mixing tutorial I’ve done! And yeah sure! Two things, first you’re exactly right, on dynamic microphones in particular more gain = more room noise and in some cases more preamp noise. But also, if you’re processing vocals things afterwards, there isn’t much headroom for proper gain staging. If you add gain through compression, distortion, or whatever, there isn’t much room to grow before it begins to clip :) cheers dude!
@@AudioHaze Thank you!
Alright Mr. Haze (or should I say Master given your new qualification? :) )
1) congrats on graduating, thats a huge feat! and 2) I followed your useful advice on getting a budget mic (yes, got the SM57, its great!) as well as the audio interface you were discussing. I was wondering if you can help me with a voiceover chain similar to the one you made for James? I am amazed at the quality of sound you managed to get, and despite the sm57 being a great mic, my sound quality is no where close. Would really appreciate your help here, and happy to send an audio sample
Hey! Sure, email me at realaudiohaze@gmail.com and we can make something :)
Great video, been loving your channel. One question, why is it important to increase the dB level throughout the chain rather than just using a Utility at the end before the limiter?
Noise floor! Too much gain from one source will increase noise (this isn’t as much of a thing in the digital age, but it’s still applicable)
@@AudioHaze oh interesting, even from just a Utility? I always assumed that was a pure increase, but maybe not
Looking at the raw waveform . . . are you sure this wasn't compressed going in?
hey chief its me again hehe I have a question for you, which mic do you think its more Sibilant? The NT1 or the SM57? Im between getting the NT1, SM57 and AT4040... I tried making it work with my AT2035 but I cant, the mic is good but man the sibilance is so harsh... I got traumatized over sibilance so Im trynna get the less sibilant mic I can lol
The NT1 can get kind of sibilant! The Sm57 is not nearly as bad :)
Hey did you graduate from Berklee? Congratulations. Graduation presents to yourself; Air conditioner and a microphone.
I don’t know who is listening to all these podcasts of random people. However, when the podcasting bubble pops there will be really good deals on boom arms and microphones. Too bad guitars aren’t a trend everyone is jumping on, I could use some good deals.
Haha I did yes! And I’m moving soon to a place with AC and bought a mic :) you read my mind
@@AudioHaze what mic did you get?
@@jakp8777 RE20 :)
hahahah great video my friend (:
Thank you very much good sir :)
Help
help.
Looks more like a theoretical approach to the issue, rather than practical, based on actual experience... 😂
So, should you always EAT the mic, or just poke it up your nose as you have here?
James voice is really crackly like he’s going through puberty and conveys a lack of enthusiasm.
I would add a light autotune and slightly speed up the audio to cover up the crackling in his voice and add enthusiasm while also giving the listener less opportunity to notice all the flaws in his voice.
Of course, former MTV VJ Nina Blackwood has the absolute worse voice like she smoked to much and has a tracheotomy and had a decent TV and radio career so maybe perfecting a voice isn’t 100% necessary. Still, I think that the clip you were working with is really tough and did a good job of cleaning it up,