Thank you so much for this. You’re saying important things here! 1st) the high pass. I hear people advocating for 80 - 120Hz, and that has always been so aggressive for spoken word. Also the amount of super sizzly and grainy sounding podcasts because folks crank up a high shelf from 5kHz above. Great tutorial here my friend. Keep up the great work.
No surprise to me that I see my favorite microphone reviewer commenting on one of my new favorite mixing/production youtubers. Both of you guys have been so helpful to me, a 33 year old who got fed up and finally committed to my own home studio. You guys are a god send! Thank you In The Mix and Podcastage!
yeah, it is a great video! let me grab my notebook as well! *scribble scribble* ^^ pleasant pleasantries! I also admire both your works! i hope to catch up and be a public creator soon too! I am working hard on it!
My god, this was INCREDIBLY helpful! So many videos out there are just like "This is how an EQ works, every mic and voice is different, so you'll have to play around with it to get it right". Thank you so much for actually delving into what it is we're supposed to look for when tuning vocal EQ, I understand all settings will differ in the end, but knowing what it is to look for immediately got me on 500% better footing to start with than any other video out there
@asher myers @asher myers I probably won't look back at this particular post and think "what the hell was I thinking?" because I never suggested that someone give me a one size fits all answer to how to EQ vocals. In fact, my post states pretty clearly exactly what I was thinking; I understand there are too many variables at play to tell each person exactly how to EQ their particular tracks, but to say "it's different for everyone, play around with it" and call it a day is lazy. Especially when this video here exists to show that you can give people general sound editing know-how so they are least know where to start when they begin to "play around with it". The video gave me exactly what I wanted; a general how-to on troubleshooting audio. "This freq range is usually associated with this stuff", "if you're hearing this noise, you might want to have a look in this range or this range", etc. Every other mic video I could find was literally just "well, it's gonna be different for everyone, so you'll just have to figure out out" with zero first-step guidance.
I'm officially watching In The Mix on an hourly basis. That's 45 minutes of In The Mix and then 15 minutes of relaxing while watching In The Mix. Unbelievable comparisons, analogies and such golden knowledge coming from this guy. Beyond thankful!
Same lol. Discovered this guy yesterday. Because I don't have a lot of time to produce before work (I work weird hours), I just stick to learning from this channel until I have enough free time to produce again. I'm actually taking notes and making a document for all sorts of tips on plugins, mixing etc. It's literally golden.
Your channel is the best for FL tutorials. Everything is professional and to the point. Not only that, your teaching methods are simple and that is what makes your videos amazing. You deserve more attention man! Love your content!
Honestly, this video alone deserves 1 billion views. This is by far the most comprehensive and easy to understand video on the subject I've seen on TH-cam. It helps you understand what you're doing and why you're doing it. Thank you very much for all the effort and hard work! Wish you the best.
You explain everything so well in all of your videos. Instead of just showing us how to do something, you always explain why. The why is the most important part! I find this incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for these amazing videos!
Dude, thank you so much for these videos! I payed 15k to go to college a few years back and I’ve learnt more from your TH-cam channel than I did from college! Crazy
I am a beginning podcaster. I saw on another podcast recommendations about sound, but I could not remember which one. I did a search, and yours was the first most practical. Now, I will go through my subscription library and find the first one that I saw discussing this; I am subscribing.
Man, I'm Brazilian, and tbh with you, we don't find any channel like this in portuguese, this content is gold for producers and Audio Engineers starting their careers, thank you so much for uploading this videos! It's helping me a lot to get the results that I want! Stay safe, Luv u!
Ok, now this is *the best tutorial* on how to approach fixing up a voice. I've watched lots of tutorials on setting up EQ with Voicemeeter and OBS for streaming, which often boil down to *remove sibilant S sounds, cut off low frequency at 100, adjust X so that your voice sounds better*. With FL Studio's visuals and the clear instructions in this video, I finally get it!
Thank you so much, bro. Your channel has helped me so much. TBH I can't afford to learn these mixing and production from paid courses that are available but whatever I've gained through these free tutorials on your channels are worth a million dollar content. Someday I'll be big in the music scene and I'll tell you thanks from the stage. But for now, God bless you man, thanks a ton for putting so much of your knowledge and experience into these videos.
Love this concept of color zones. Im finally starting to conceptualize the frequency spectrum better and seeing this made things clear. Just a friendly suggestion but you should do this for other sounds like synths, kick, etc. Major props keep up the great work man love your channel
70% of my mixing and mastering knowledge is from your page. This video helped me a lot when it comes to knowing what exactly to look forward to when eq-ing. As an artist who's doing the whole independent thing i appreciate pages like yours. Imma shout you out when i get my grammy in 2025.
Amazing video. I think one of the reasons why some people suggest pushing the low cut off all the way up to 100hz has a lot to do with voice over artists often working with 'voice under video.' I've found that adding too much low end, while it sounds nice on its own, my deep voice tends to sound muddy once its actually put to a commercial or animation.
I can’t thank you enough for this tutorial. I’ve never been really happy with the vocals on my videos but I’m sure this is going to help me improve them a ton further on, especially that part about the room resonance.
I just finished recording a voice over and I'm about to get into editing it. This video helped so much! Now I have a better understanding of what I'm going for
This is so good, thank you for making this. I used the Room Mode Calculator and EQd out the problematic resonant frequencies it pointed out, and it made it sound so much better!
As a voiceover artist and a boardmember of the Clan Donald Society of the Highlands and Islands, I love your video. Not only the great EQ work, but also the great BBC text of Stephen Moss. Thanks.
ive learned pretty much all my mixing from this channel it is unfathomable that over 100 pple could dislike this... they must have been watching the video inverted
I finally came around a video that just tells me what each frequency does without going on rants as they almost always seem to confuse me more than I am to begin with. I am new to EQing and it’s very complicated since I have poor experience with it. Thankful for this video man. Subscribing, Liking and commenting 😂👍🏻
Outstanding. Thank you sir. I work on corporate videos that are produced in-house. I’m constantly dealing with poorly recorded audio with all sorts of issues. Knowing how to work with a parametric EQ will be extremely helpful.
8:50 man was scoring points for his wife to say her voice is perfect just the way it is, i see you brother cant wait to flaunt my wife's voice like that😂😂😂😂
@@KAMO99 you can also convert any crappy headphone into a mic. Some are so bad you have to put your lips against the phone. If they are going to use megaphones in recording and compress and distort, the easy way is to mix for your crappy mics. Don't be suckered into dumping money into microphones or preforming surgery on a bad track. Even with bad mics a good performance can come through.
This is such useful information that youre just giving out for free. Most appreciative. I've even heard voice recordings from massive youtubers that forget to cut the extreme lows when they hit a mic stand.
I always used FX on my voice, but I never really understood how everything worked. But this video really opened my eyes! My voice-over audio is gonna sound so much better now. Thank you so much! I'm going to watch the compression tutorial now, and I plan to watch the rest of your videos in this series.
As you kept replaying the phrase "so the wind whips up the sea" I began to wonder if you have any suggestions for a good problem areas sample sentence or two to have talent record at the beginning of a session. Something that ticks the boxes on most of the common issues that need addressing. I figure that would be a good benchmark to use to adjust EQ and other plugins.
You could look into Harvard Sentences. They're essentially a lot of phrases written specifically for testing out the clarity of voices over phones, microphones, etc
The old "one two, one one two two" is a good start. It might drive people nuts, but "one" brings out any booming and standing waves, and "two" is good for plosives and sibilance, plus that whining sound. As a vocalist I've said "one two, one one two two" possibly millions of times, but that's what works best for EQing vocals. Once you're experienced, you learn how to make the problems surface quickly just by saying "one two" in the right way, making getting a basic EQ set up very quickly. Expose the potential problems with "one two" at the start and EQing that persons' vocals becomes easy.
If you figured out the EQ settings for your voice with a specific Microphon, does these values stay the same or will it vary? I.e., can I save it as a preset and always use it? Could you do more about audio postprocessing for dialogue, voice over and podcasting? Kind regards .
It will be similar but each microphone will have it’s own balance and will focus the voice differently. I would make small adjustments if changing microphones
I'm a full-time VO guy...it's best to tweak EQ for each Mic. Set up a template in your DAW for each of your mics and use the appropriate template for each project. If you are going to do Voice Acting (projects that involve whispers/talking/screaming) set up templates for specific performances...I have a separate Template for gigs that require me to be right up on the mic versus "narration" projects. It sounds tedious at first but you will thank yourself in the long run. With 1 click you'll be ready to record a specific mic in a specific scenario...even better, if you need to do any edits/overdubs you can just pull up the exact settings from the original session and match the EQ perfectly. Trust me, Clients LOVE it if you can actually nail overdubs. I've lost track of how many bonus payments I've received just for a proper undetectable edit.
Thank you! I have watched so many videos which said that it's fine to low cut up to 100 or even 150 Hz. And I always struggle with having too thin vocals. This is the best example for "less is more" 🙏 Also, thanks for the quick mic angle tip to point it towards one's chest. Super helpful!
Impressive.. I finally found a real slow, detailed teacher. O my gosh.! Everyone I find that say for beginners!!!. Its really not!.. They to fast or they just don't know how to teach. Some people are on hands and naturally have an ear and still cannot teach. If I have to comment. Trust me your doing a awesome job. 👌 Thank you for your time. I hope you have a 1 on 1 EQ class alone. 😄
You are the best and my favorite production instructor. When I have a question or an issue in my studio- I go right to your channel. Ty for sharing. 💯❤
thank you for this awesome video! you mentioned really important points, some of which I couldn’t agree with most eq approaches before. the high pass felt really balanced and the high shelf kept the voice very nice to hear for longer periods of time. i see too many videos where these frequencies are pulled so loud that, yes it makes a voice sound brighter, but very harsh to listen specially for longer periods of time. keep up the great work! ✌🏻
Maybe almost two years old video but thank you. I'm in small and untreated room, which has annoying resonant frequency and apparently I was EQing harmonic and not the base frequency. Now my voice sounds SO MUCH better.
This is great. I hear too many youtube commenters who just boost the low end super high to make their voice sound bassier and it just sounds like they're speaking through a towel
9:20 The only tutorial who finally understands my issue! I have a quite dark bassy voice and moreover my mic sounds kinda dark on top. So instead of cutting the bass frequencies to death just broadly adjust the mids slightly? I tried that and here we go! I have never ever been told that before! Thanks for that! ♥
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. Just purchased my first Interface and a AT2020, and now my untreated room is making me cry. I wanted to record my sisters songs and improve the audio quality of my youtube videos. This video has helped me a lot to tackle the resonance issue I was having.
This is a great video! Something I’ve Been doing on vocals or any sound I’m fitting into a track, This technique is not talked about much by the “TH-cam” producer community but it’s one that will clean up any mix and the better you get at catching the resonating frequencies you’re mix will only sound better and better
Amazing Amazing video, Love the detailed explanation. Ive learned a lot about "Eq'ing" just from how you broke it down for me. Keep up the good work my guy !
This is an amazing video. It is structured in such a useful way - I actually EQd my own song side-by-side and it actually came out incredibly clean by the end of this video. Trained my ear a bit too.
This was my first time EQ anything with any real intent, and idk if I managed it or I'm just sick of listening to myself after half an hour but I think I got it somewhere I like, thanks for the tutorial!
If you have fairly normal room, you can calculate resonant frequencies from the distances between your dominating flat surfaces. If you had omnidirectional microphone in an empty, untreated room, it would have three frequencies corresponding to three distances between floor and the ceiling, and then between two pairs of walls. Also if you go to these lengths to treat your voice, you should probably use closed heaphones (assuming you are monitoring your voice).
Thank you for sharing your thought on how you think about treating vocal! I finally have the courage to create creative content here on youtube and your video helped me to create better recording. I love what you do :D
I've been trying to improve my mic quality to make it better for some videos I want to make and this broke it down barney style for me and I finally have it just the way I want it thank you for this.
As an absolutely cluless individual with a regular stream and standard USB mic, I appreciate this a lot. Also I have now sympathy for all sound engineers who seem to be able to hear things I can't and get bothered by it. I have some concept of it since I seem to notice more audio issues since I started working on mine. And other people's streams just make me want to send them these videos. I can't imagine what it feels like for an audio engineer to navigate amatuer streams and podcasts. I will be recommending your video to everyone.
You may find it instructive to look at an averaging RTA display which shows the overall tonality of your voice. You will see a peak in that second lowest frequency band which corresponds to the fundamental frequency of your vocal apparatus. You may also see a peak at two times that frequency, which is the second harmonic of the fundamental. A good way to reduce weight in the voice is to pull down that peak, which is what you're doing, but you attribute it to room modes. Room modes in that frequency region are really complex (technically less complex than hf, but I digress) but your voice's fundamental F will not change. Another point you touched on is the tendency to make the voice sound exciting or too smooth. The intelligibility and loudness of the voice has to be balanced against the content type. An audiobook should be smooth but enagaing, and a movie trailer should probably sound huge. EQ will play into those choices as you point out. This is a great tutorial and it obviously comes from experience.
This is mighty useful. Here's something I've always struggled to find information on. The sound of a professional radio station. Everything from the music, to the DJ's mic on a pro station sound very different to anything I've worked on. What I have is a very clean sound, minimal reverb, reasonably high quality mic and music that sounds just like it does when I play it myself... Pro stations sound... well... you know... THAT sound...
Thank you so much for this. You’re saying important things here! 1st) the high pass. I hear people advocating for 80 - 120Hz, and that has always been so aggressive for spoken word. Also the amount of super sizzly and grainy sounding podcasts because folks crank up a high shelf from 5kHz above. Great tutorial here my friend. Keep up the great work.
I’m glad you have experienced the same as me. Blessed to have approval from the TH-cam VO expert!
That's high praise!
Hey Bandrew! Stickers!
That was me high shelf from 5khz to deess😫
No surprise to me that I see my favorite microphone reviewer commenting on one of my new favorite mixing/production youtubers. Both of you guys have been so helpful to me, a 33 year old who got fed up and finally committed to my own home studio. You guys are a god send! Thank you In The Mix and Podcastage!
Finally a guide that doesn't just tell you to boost treble by 12db or something stupid like that
We needed this
I've yet to see a video suggest something like that
@@ReeseWitherknife sounds like you're watching better sources of information.. lol
You nailed it
@@ReeseWitherknife there's alot
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0:00 - Intro
1:10 - 0Hz to 50Hz
2:10 - 50Hz to 200Hz
6:40 - 200Hz to 600Hz
9:00 - 600Hz to 4kHz
10:00 - 4kHz - 8kHz
12:00 - 8kHz+
@@somamahapatra6672 what?
A new Curtis 😉
*taking notes*
Excellent video!
Your video and audio quality is top tier Paul! I’m looking forward to that new acoustic course you are making :)
Woah. Two dudes collaborating that i’m stealing secrets from!🙇♀️ 🙇♂️
yeah, it is a great video! let me grab my notebook as well! *scribble scribble* ^^ pleasant pleasantries!
I also admire both your works! i hope to catch up and be a public creator soon too! I am working hard on it!
you take note i take the girl DEAL?
Paul😮 the most cinematic guitarist on youtube!
My god, this was INCREDIBLY helpful! So many videos out there are just like "This is how an EQ works, every mic and voice is different, so you'll have to play around with it to get it right". Thank you so much for actually delving into what it is we're supposed to look for when tuning vocal EQ, I understand all settings will differ in the end, but knowing what it is to look for immediately got me on 500% better footing to start with than any other video out there
@asher myers @asher myers I probably won't look back at this particular post and think "what the hell was I thinking?" because I never suggested that someone give me a one size fits all answer to how to EQ vocals. In fact, my post states pretty clearly exactly what I was thinking; I understand there are too many variables at play to tell each person exactly how to EQ their particular tracks, but to say "it's different for everyone, play around with it" and call it a day is lazy. Especially when this video here exists to show that you can give people general sound editing know-how so they are least know where to start when they begin to "play around with it".
The video gave me exactly what I wanted; a general how-to on troubleshooting audio. "This freq range is usually associated with this stuff", "if you're hearing this noise, you might want to have a look in this range or this range", etc. Every other mic video I could find was literally just "well, it's gonna be different for everyone, so you'll just have to figure out out" with zero first-step guidance.
I'm officially watching In The Mix on an hourly basis. That's 45 minutes of In The Mix and then 15 minutes of relaxing while watching In The Mix. Unbelievable comparisons, analogies and such golden knowledge coming from this guy. Beyond thankful!
Same lol. Discovered this guy yesterday. Because I don't have a lot of time to produce before work (I work weird hours), I just stick to learning from this channel until I have enough free time to produce again. I'm actually taking notes and making a document for all sorts of tips on plugins, mixing etc. It's literally golden.
Your channel is the best for FL tutorials. Everything is professional and to the point. Not only that, your teaching methods are simple and that is what makes your videos amazing. You deserve more attention man! Love your content!
Honestly, this video alone deserves 1 billion views. This is by far the most comprehensive and easy to understand video on the subject I've seen on TH-cam. It helps you understand what you're doing and why you're doing it. Thank you very much for all the effort and hard work! Wish you the best.
You explain everything so well in all of your videos. Instead of just showing us how to do something, you always explain why. The why is the most important part! I find this incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for these amazing videos!
Two years later, your time put into this video is still useful. Thank you for uploading this! Very insightful info
Dude, thank you so much for these videos! I payed 15k to go to college a few years back and I’ve learnt more from your TH-cam channel than I did from college! Crazy
I’ve been an audio student for over 2 years and his is by far the best explanation I’ve heard to date on eq, thank you for making this video!🙏
The videos just keep getting better. Best teacher on TH-cam
facts
Watch Fl studio tips
He's great
Agree, well mannered fellow too.
I am a beginning podcaster. I saw on another podcast recommendations about sound, but I could not remember which one. I did a search, and yours was the first most practical. Now, I will go through my subscription library and find the first one that I saw discussing this;
I am subscribing.
Man, I'm Brazilian, and tbh with you, we don't find any channel like this in portuguese, this content is gold for producers and Audio Engineers starting their careers, thank you so much for uploading this videos! It's helping me a lot to get the results that I want! Stay safe, Luv u!
Obrigado Bruno!
Ok, now this is *the best tutorial* on how to approach fixing up a voice.
I've watched lots of tutorials on setting up EQ with Voicemeeter and OBS for streaming, which often boil down to *remove sibilant S sounds, cut off low frequency at 100, adjust X so that your voice sounds better*. With FL Studio's visuals and the clear instructions in this video, I finally get it!
Thank you so much, bro. Your channel has helped me so much.
TBH I can't afford to learn these mixing and production from paid courses that are available but whatever I've gained through these free tutorials on your channels are worth a million dollar content.
Someday I'll be big in the music scene and I'll tell you thanks from the stage. But for now, God bless you man, thanks a ton for putting so much of your knowledge and experience into these videos.
I've watched countless EQ'ing for voice videos, and this one has by far been the most in depth. Appreciate you!
Love this concept of color zones. Im finally starting to conceptualize the frequency spectrum better and seeing this made things clear. Just a friendly suggestion but you should do this for other sounds like synths, kick, etc. Major props keep up the great work man love your channel
I second this
70% of my mixing and mastering knowledge is from your page. This video helped me a lot when it comes to knowing what exactly to look forward to when eq-ing. As an artist who's doing the whole independent thing i appreciate pages like yours. Imma shout you out when i get my grammy in 2025.
Amazing video. I think one of the reasons why some people suggest pushing the low cut off all the way up to 100hz has a lot to do with voice over artists often working with 'voice under video.' I've found that adding too much low end, while it sounds nice on its own, my deep voice tends to sound muddy once its actually put to a commercial or animation.
You have no idea how much help this video provides to people that are new to the youtube/recording world. It's insane 100/10
I can’t thank you enough for this tutorial. I’ve never been really happy with the vocals on my videos but I’m sure this is going to help me improve them a ton further on, especially that part about the room resonance.
I've learnt alot of music production from this guy....surely helpful
I just finished recording a voice over and I'm about to get into editing it. This video helped so much! Now I have a better understanding of what I'm going for
Best guide ever...So many templates have it wrong and this Guy clarifies all the generic crap that all other channels have been informing
This is so good, thank you for making this. I used the Room Mode Calculator and EQd out the problematic resonant frequencies it pointed out, and it made it sound so much better!
As a voiceover artist and a boardmember of the Clan Donald Society of the Highlands and Islands, I love your video. Not only the great EQ work, but also the great BBC text of Stephen Moss. Thanks.
haha he didn't dare correct the wife's voice
Not funny. If you know what will happen
That alone proves his superior intelligence. I’m taking every bit of advice this man gives me.
I'd have applied a bandpass filter for a speed bump mid grid.
We know who's in charge in that house. 😂
ive learned pretty much all my mixing from this channel it is unfathomable that over 100 pple could dislike this... they must have been watching the video inverted
This is my favorite show ever.. can we please learn something about vocals harmonies and how to actually take them and mix them please.. much love 🤍
Yes please help us with vocal harmonies and mixing only vocal harmonies
FIrst EQ video where i actually feel like i've learned something ... Thank You man!!!
I finally came around a video that just tells me what each frequency does without going on rants as they almost always seem to confuse me more than I am to begin with. I am new to EQing and it’s very complicated since I have poor experience with it. Thankful for this video man. Subscribing, Liking and commenting 😂👍🏻
Outstanding. Thank you sir. I work on corporate videos that are produced in-house. I’m constantly dealing with poorly recorded audio with all sorts of issues. Knowing how to work with a parametric EQ will be extremely helpful.
Damn.. I'd love hear a poem from you... your voice is so relaxing
It really is. Calm as hell!
That is an excellent idea!
Its almost like he knows how to make his voice sound good.. kind of a wierd idea tho idk.
This channel is the best music production talk show out there from the internet.
I love this man! He's so good! Thank you for all the help!
Your detailed and concise videos are always helpful!
8:50 man was scoring points for his wife to say her voice is perfect just the way it is, i see you brother cant wait to flaunt my wife's voice like that😂😂😂😂
You got me!
I can't believe this content is for free. Thank so much, man! You're a legend.
You have saved my mumbly podcast haha! Luckily i'm only 4 episodes in so I can edit and reupload, thankyou!
Happy to have helped! Best of luck with the podcast :)
@@inthemix thanks so much, your advice on sibilance (my massive lisp) really helped!
@@inthemixare you using the switches on the back of the 7b in this video?
My favorite music production channel for a reason. Well spoken, knowledgeable, practical and calm demeanor.
Been waiting for this one since I saw your ig story
Thanks!
@@inthemix just finished watching this...another gem from you bro keep the good work up❤
^^^
this channel is the perfect antithesis to the deluge of “do this one thing 100% of the time for pro mixes guaranteed!” videos
“As autumn takes a grip on the Highlands and Islands... I lose a lot of that warmth” -In the Mix 2021
There's so much insanely helpful info here, I know I'm years late to the party, but thank you!
me who owns a cheap mic : *taking notes*
^^^
Me too. I'm still going to use the built in mic and instrument mics.
Litterally using a headset mic that has white noise just as loud as my vocal
@@KAMO99 you can also convert any crappy headphone into a mic. Some are so bad you have to put your lips against the phone. If they are going to use megaphones in recording and compress and distort, the easy way is to mix for your crappy mics. Don't be suckered into dumping money into microphones or preforming surgery on a bad track. Even with bad mics a good performance can come through.
^^^^
This is such useful information that youre just giving out for free. Most appreciative.
I've even heard voice recordings from massive youtubers that forget to cut the extreme lows when they hit a mic stand.
Would of been helpful to hear a final A/B after all the cuts/boosts
Probably one of The Best tutorials on vocal EQ I’ve watched to date!
Today I came to know you are married 😂 ( belated congratulations )
Brave guy..
I thought his age was around 17 years old. Congrats!
Not sure why that would make someone come, but hey... whatever floats your boat : )
I always used FX on my voice, but I never really understood how everything worked. But this video really opened my eyes! My voice-over audio is gonna sound so much better now. Thank you so much! I'm going to watch the compression tutorial now, and I plan to watch the rest of your videos in this series.
As you kept replaying the phrase "so the wind whips up the sea" I began to wonder if you have any suggestions for a good problem areas sample sentence or two to have talent record at the beginning of a session. Something that ticks the boxes on most of the common issues that need addressing. I figure that would be a good benchmark to use to adjust EQ and other plugins.
You could look into Harvard Sentences. They're essentially a lot of phrases written specifically for testing out the clarity of voices over phones, microphones, etc
The old "one two, one one two two" is a good start. It might drive people nuts, but "one" brings out any booming and standing waves, and "two" is good for plosives and sibilance, plus that whining sound. As a vocalist I've said "one two, one one two two" possibly millions of times, but that's what works best for EQing vocals. Once you're experienced, you learn how to make the problems surface quickly just by saying "one two" in the right way, making getting a basic EQ set up very quickly. Expose the potential problems with "one two" at the start and EQing that persons' vocals becomes easy.
the best asmr music production tips channel out there :)
If you figured out the EQ settings for your voice with a specific Microphon, does these values stay the same or will it vary? I.e., can I save it as a preset and always use it?
Could you do more about audio postprocessing for dialogue, voice over and podcasting?
Kind regards
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It will be similar but each microphone will have it’s own balance and will focus the voice differently. I would make small adjustments if changing microphones
I'm a full-time VO guy...it's best to tweak EQ for each Mic. Set up a template in your DAW for each of your mics and use the appropriate template for each project.
If you are going to do Voice Acting (projects that involve whispers/talking/screaming) set up templates for specific performances...I have a separate Template for gigs that require me to be right up on the mic versus "narration" projects.
It sounds tedious at first but you will thank yourself in the long run. With 1 click you'll be ready to record a specific mic in a specific scenario...even better, if you need to do any edits/overdubs you can just pull up the exact settings from the original session and match the EQ perfectly. Trust me, Clients LOVE it if you can actually nail overdubs. I've lost track of how many bonus payments I've received just for a proper undetectable edit.
@@Crowbar11115 thanks for the info!
i dont know why nobody teaches like him ....he is the best
. took notes, now going to use them . thank you so much sir #respect
Super helpful. Thank you so much.
Thank you! I have watched so many videos which said that it's fine to low cut up to 100 or even 150 Hz. And I always struggle with having too thin vocals. This is the best example for "less is more" 🙏 Also, thanks for the quick mic angle tip to point it towards one's chest. Super helpful!
im having trouble getting my voice to "get over" the beat, it sounds very confided in the track, what do i do?
boost highs and high mids as u like. remove some lows if ur beat is bass heavy. soundgoodizer (C) at 10-30% really boosts the vibe of vocals
this is so cool how you watch your voice and hunt things down in your voice and shit... absolute magic
If you really want to turn the audio spectrum into swiss cheese, at least use a dynamic EQ.
a lot of youtube tutorials skip steps and leave out so information. thank you for providing so much useful knowledge all these years ✌
Cracking video do you think you could do your bigger brother a favour and sort out my audio! For my TH-cam?
I’ve already offered...you just need to send it over bro
@@inthemix lol
@USA Ozetesh nope just wanted to see if my brother would pin 📌 my comment 😂
@USA Ozetesh I see you
I haven't used FL Studio, I do watch in the mix every chance I can, I can't wait to put his knowledge to make wonders
I'm watching this over and over. Sir, you are a great teacher and I'm learning good skills. Many thanks!
You are my favourite channel.
The way you explain are just easy to absorb,
Thank u
Impressive.. I finally found a real slow, detailed teacher. O my gosh.! Everyone I find that say for beginners!!!. Its really not!.. They to fast or they just don't know how to teach. Some people are on hands and naturally have an ear and still cannot teach. If I have to comment. Trust me your doing a awesome job. 👌 Thank you for your time. I hope you have a 1 on 1 EQ class alone. 😄
You are the best and my favorite production instructor. When I have a question or an issue in my studio- I go right to your channel. Ty for sharing. 💯❤
thank you for this awesome video! you mentioned really important points, some of which I couldn’t agree with most eq approaches before. the high pass felt really balanced and the high shelf kept the voice very nice to hear for longer periods of time. i see too many videos where these frequencies are pulled so loud that, yes it makes a voice sound brighter, but very harsh to listen specially for longer periods of time. keep up the great work! ✌🏻
Maybe almost two years old video but thank you. I'm in small and untreated room, which has annoying resonant frequency and apparently I was EQing harmonic and not the base frequency. Now my voice sounds SO MUCH better.
This is the definition of the Sound Wizardry. Please put together an " Audio Repair Master Class " and take our money for it
This is great. I hear too many youtube commenters who just boost the low end super high to make their voice sound bassier and it just sounds like they're speaking through a towel
...have watched most of your videos. Thank you for putting in the time to make them and share your wisdom
9:20 The only tutorial who finally understands my issue! I have a quite dark bassy voice and moreover my mic sounds kinda dark on top. So instead of cutting the bass frequencies to death just broadly adjust the mids slightly? I tried that and here we go! I have never ever been told that before! Thanks for that! ♥
As a Garageband main, I never used this method and stick to the presets but now that I'm learning FL Studio, this is really awesome!
Dude! You are the Bob Ross of recording! Congratulations!
Thanks man. I never thought that EQ is important but now I know how I can set my voice to sound like these big youtubers.
thanks
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. Just purchased my first Interface and a AT2020, and now my untreated room is making me cry. I wanted to record my sisters songs and improve the audio quality of my youtube videos. This video has helped me a lot to tackle the resonance issue I was having.
This is a great video! Something I’ve Been doing on vocals or any sound I’m fitting into a track, This technique is not talked about much by the “TH-cam” producer community but it’s one that will clean up any mix and the better you get at catching the resonating frequencies you’re mix will only sound better and better
Effortless explanation! Michael's like a walking master's teacher for working straight off a laptop. Genius!
Can't say I like your workflow but... Certainly you know your stuff in FL Studio and built in plugins. Great respect to you.
Ngl, this was very intuitive and easy to understand, even for a guy who´s second language is english. Thanks for your video! It will help me a lot!
I’m just getting into mixing and mastering and production and I love your videos!
one of the best videos to explain EQ.
Amazing Amazing video, Love the detailed explanation. Ive learned a lot about "Eq'ing" just from how you broke it down for me. Keep up the good work my guy !
I truly appreciate this explanation so much. I’ve never understood EQ no matter how it was explained. I finally do.
this is awesome, thanks for doing such a great job visualizing and attacking the resonant frequencies
This is an amazing video. It is structured in such a useful way - I actually EQd my own song side-by-side and it actually came out incredibly clean by the end of this video. Trained my ear a bit too.
I haven´t seen a better mastering teacher on TH-cam than you.
This was my first time EQ anything with any real intent, and idk if I managed it or I'm just sick of listening to myself after half an hour but I think I got it somewhere I like, thanks for the tutorial!
Got an upcoming voice over project and this came at the perfect time! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🇿🇦
I'm also from South Africa!! Nice to see you on the Interwebs
@@WesleyWestMusic Even more pleased to see you, and I suppose you're also a creative, right?
@@WesleyWestMusic I also see that you follow Hillsong! I go to Hillsong Church Braam up in Jozi, part of the creative team there🤗✊
@@samazwe Yes man! I live in Johannesburg. I do music, videos and different things! And you?
@@samazwe Awesome man! I've been there once or twice while I was studying at Wits.
If you have fairly normal room, you can calculate resonant frequencies from the distances between your dominating flat surfaces. If you had omnidirectional microphone in an empty, untreated room, it would have three frequencies corresponding to three distances between floor and the ceiling, and then between two pairs of walls.
Also if you go to these lengths to treat your voice, you should probably use closed heaphones (assuming you are monitoring your voice).
Made a few small cuts based using your advice and am really happy with the results. Cheers!
Thank you for sharing your thought on how you think about treating vocal! I finally have the courage to create creative content here on youtube and your video helped me to create better recording. I love what you do :D
I aspire to reaching a point where I can use this information 😊. This is getting bookmarked for when my skillset improves.
I've been trying to improve my mic quality to make it better for some videos I want to make and this broke it down barney style for me and I finally have it just the way I want it thank you for this.
I’m so glad it worked for you!
As an absolutely cluless individual with a regular stream and standard USB mic, I appreciate this a lot. Also I have now sympathy for all sound engineers who seem to be able to hear things I can't and get bothered by it. I have some concept of it since I seem to notice more audio issues since I started working on mine. And other people's streams just make me want to send them these videos. I can't imagine what it feels like for an audio engineer to navigate amatuer streams and podcasts. I will be recommending your video to everyone.
You may find it instructive to look at an averaging RTA display which shows the overall tonality of your voice. You will see a peak in that second lowest frequency band which corresponds to the fundamental frequency of your vocal apparatus. You may also see a peak at two times that frequency, which is the second harmonic of the fundamental. A good way to reduce weight in the voice is to pull down that peak, which is what you're doing, but you attribute it to room modes. Room modes in that frequency region are really complex (technically less complex than hf, but I digress) but your voice's fundamental F will not change.
Another point you touched on is the tendency to make the voice sound exciting or too smooth. The intelligibility and loudness of the voice has to be balanced against the content type. An audiobook should be smooth but enagaing, and a movie trailer should probably sound huge. EQ will play into those choices as you point out.
This is a great tutorial and it obviously comes from experience.
This is the tutorial I was looking for! Thanks Michael. The information provided is really helpful.
Good point in the intro, people tend to chop off those fundamental frequencies in the low spectrum.
This is mighty useful. Here's something I've always struggled to find information on. The sound of a professional radio station. Everything from the music, to the DJ's mic on a pro station sound very different to anything I've worked on. What I have is a very clean sound, minimal reverb, reasonably high quality mic and music that sounds just like it does when I play it myself... Pro stations sound... well... you know... THAT sound...