In this article, sound recordist Keith Morrison will focus on some basic principles that can help deliver organised and high-quality sound on location, enabling all departments to work efficiently. The good news is that expensive kit isn’t necessarily required to achieve this but a good understanding of the production workflow is.
How To Use RME Audio Interfaces As The I/O For Zoom Or Skype On Mac Or PC
In this article, the team from Synthax UK take you through the steps for using popular video call apps Zoom and Skype with an RME audio interface.
Plosive Thumps In Your Dialogue And Vocal Recordings? How To Avoid Or Fix Them
In this article we share several methods of addressing plosives that occur in voice and vocal recordings in both tracking and mixing workflows.
Top Tips For Getting A Good Performance During A Voice Over Session
How do you go about getting the best out of a VO session, both when the artist is with you or when it is a remote session, either via ISDN or Source-Connect. Tobias Deitmer is an audio engineer and dubbing editor from Cologne, Germany. Over the last fifteen years, he worked on many different projects with voice actors for the video game and dubbing industries. In this article, he talks about how to handle a VO Session to make sure it goes smoothly because when you get a great performance out of your VO artist it can save you a lot of editing time in the post-production.
How To Remote Record With Non Technical Guests Using Source-Connect Now
This article from Tom Bullen will present recommendations and advice to help you achieve high-quality remote recordings with a non-technical participant, who currently has no solution in place at all. It aims to be as simple as possible for you both, but with the understanding that you might need to work a little harder to make things easier for them.
How To Edit And Mix Purposeful Sounding Podcast Interviews Using 4 Waves Plug-ins In Studio One
In this free tutorial series, brought to you with the kind support of Waves, we show you a podcast dialog plug-in chain worth experimenting with if you feel your podcast mixes need improving quickly.
Using Sonnox Drum Gate In Studio One To Reduce Unwanted Bleed In A Drum Mix Fast
In this free video tutorial you will learn how to address spill in a live multitrack drum mix. This demonstration focuses on the snare drum channel which needed the bleed reduced in order to apply other processing which, if the bleed was still present, would have effected the overall tonality of the bigger picture of the drums.
Sontronics Podcast Pro Tested - Is This The Ultimate Podcast Microphone?
One of the many things we love about the winter NAMM show is all the new gear and toys that are introduced. Now at the beginning of March 2020, we are starting to see that new gear appear in real life for testing. The new Podcast Pro from Sontronics was one such new microphone that was debuted at the show and we now have one for testing. In a Production Expert exclusive, Technical Editor James Ivey takes a look at this new dynamic microphone and puts it through its audio paces.
Sibilance In Vocal Tracks - Check Out 4 Waves DeEsser Plugins That Reduce Harshness
Sibilance is a common issue in vocal recordings. It’s an audio artefact that generally makes for uncomfortable listening experiences. In this free four-part video tutorial series, brought to you with the kind support of Waves, we show you how to reduce sibilance in vocal recordings using four Waves plug-ins.
Learn How To Give Your Lead Vocal Tracks Real Impact Using Creative Editing And Automation In Studio One
At times it can feel as though there are too many options for us to choose from when deciding on how to mix a lead vocal track. While options are a good thing, choice paralisis can set in which often cripples creative flow. Often simply approaches yield the best results in a mix. Next time you mix a song consider experimenting with some creative edits and automation before reaching for your go to plug-ins, as demonstrated in this free video tutorial.
Clone A Voice With Just A 5 Second Sample - Could This Replace ADR?
This video has been posted by researchers who are now claiming that they can clone a person’s voice using just a 5-second clip. They explain that this can be done because they have trained a neural network, what we often call Artificial Intelligences or machine learning, on hours and hours of a wide variety of speakers so that it understands how we speak and then it can take a 5 second clip and clone a voice and get it to say things that were not in the clip.
iZotope Announce The Next Big Thing In Post Production - What Could It Be?
iZotope has posted an invitation to join them and Doug Mountain (Dialogue Editor, The Walking Dead) on Thursday, November 7th 2019 from 7 pm to 9 pm Pacific Time at Westlake Pro in North Hollywood and also live-streamed, when they will introduce “an industry-first in post-production technology - a new revolutionary tool”, which according to the announcement on the Westlake Pro site, will be released on November 5th. What could it be?
Speech Intelligibility - The Facts That Affect How We Hear Dialog
The dictionary definition of intelligibility is “the quality or condition of being intelligible - capable of being understood; comprehensible; clear enough to be understood.” It seems that there is a growing issue with people not being able to hear the dialog in content aimed at domestic consumption, whether that is TV programmes or OTT shows, the number of complaints has increased as a result of shows like Jamaica Inn, or Happy Valley and SSGB here in the UK. In this article we are going to take a look at the factors that control our ability to discern what is being said - speech intelligibility.
Synchro Arts Update VocALign with ARA2 Compatibility
As of June 26, 2019, Both VocAlign Pro and VocAlign Project now include ARA 2 support. The newest versions, VocALign Project 3.6.0.5 and VocALign Pro 4.5.0.5 VST3, now use this revolutionary audio plug-in extension technology for instant communication with host DAWs.
Not All Compressors Are Created Equal - Check Out These Plugins That May Make Your Life A Whole Lot Easier
In this article we suggest a number of alternatives to regular compressors which all do the job of dynamic processing very well, though not all process audio in the traditional sense of a compressor, which makes many of these good alternatives to traditional compressors. Some preserve dynamics, which can reduce audible compression artefacts, whilst others are more geared towards providing the effects of compression but within a GUIs that are super simple to use, which can save users valuable time in the mix.
Our Top 10 List Of Tuning & Pitch Correction Plug-ins You Should Consider Trying In Your Mixes
The two most common ways of using pitch correction plug-ins are to either produce the over processed T-Pain/Cher effect or to sculpt melodies in extremely transparent ways that sound almost inaudible. In this article, we highlight a number of powerful tuning and pitch correction plug-ins that you should consider trying in your next mix.
Revoice Pro 4.1 is Out! The Popular Pitch And Time Plug-in Just Got Smarter, Faster, Easier!
Synchro Arts is proud to present an update to their flagship product, Revoice Pro. This v.4.1 update, free to all Revoice Pro 4 users, includes many workflow enhancements. Process groups improved Warp workflow, and tighter ARA2 integration with compatible DAWs are just part of what this update brings.
Easy Editing of Sibilance Using The Powerful Warp Tool In Revoice Pro 4 - Free Video Tutorial
In this video, sponsored by SynchroArts, I’ll show you one of the ways I like to work in Warp Mode to correct not only sibilance but other problems with unpitched audio like breaths and harsh consonants. You can fly through a track in minutes cleaning up and polishing a vocal. removing, or better yet, attenuating, all sorts of unintended audio artifacts.
Telos Alliance Release The AudioTools Voice Plug-in To Improve Dialog Intelligibility. UPDATE - Product Now Withdrawn
The Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group has introduced AudioTools Voice, which they describe as “a brand-new enhancement tool that addresses television viewers long-standing and ongoing struggle to clearly hear and understand program dialogue”.
4 Top Starter Tips You Should Try The Next Time You Want To Record Professional Sounding Spoken Word Dialogue Tracks At Home
The key to achieving pro sounding voiceover recordings on a budget lies within a handful of common sense approaches that you need to turn your full attention to, well before you even hit record. It’s perfectly possible to produce great sounding voiceover recordings on a budget in a home studio environment. However if you try and rush it the results will suffer and it won’t sound as good as you want it to be. In this article we share 4 starter tips for recording great sounding voiceover and dialog tracks on a budget in home studios.