My YouTube Audio Workflow: Get Quality Sound for Your Videos

In this episode, we run through my workflow for recording sound for my YouTube videos from start to finish - production to post production.

More detailed videos on the various steps:
YouTube Video Workflow - https://youtu.be/5YWkbiXQnh0
Boom camera-top shotgun mic from a microphone stand - https://youtu.be/TUEmQBZKoBs
EQ - https://youtu.be/Jn6iB1SNvRQ
Compress and loudness normalize - https://youtu.be/lHNhxGojFRU
Loudness vs Volume - https://youtu.be/nOzZKEWJ5wk

Free Sound Only plugin from Alex4D to create audio crossfades - https://blog.alex4d.com/2011/07/11/fcpx-transition-sound-only/

If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at https://school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. Our latest course is Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini.

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Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVEStore, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:

- Producer’s Choice Sound Blankets - http://vocalboothtogo.com
- Audio Technica AT875R shotgun microphone - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/1zFDS5
- Sound Devices MixPre series recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, DVEStore, Amazon https://geni.us/O8e0
- ZOOM F series recorders - B&H, Sweetwater https://geni.us/V7TGkw
- Tascam DR-60DmkII budget recorder - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/fdBt
- Sound Devices 888 - B&H, Sweetwater https://geni.us/zAryW4J
- Impact C-stand - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/8a8tt
- Boom pole - Amazon https://geni.us/Aih1opX
- Boom pole clip, to hold the boom pole in the c-stand - Amazon https://geni.us/8jAgAst
- Aputure COB120d II for the key light - Aputure, B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/deg3
- Aputure Nova P300C for the b-roll - Aputure, B&H, DVE Store https://geni.us/TFVUy
- Amaran 100D for the background light - Aputure, B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/A3HByXB
- Aputure Spotlight Mount for the pattern on the back wall - Aputure, B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/kfAj
- Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/uK8UqB
- Signa EF 24-70 f/2.8 DG OS ART lens - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/bhOWVlW

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Copyright 2021, Curtis Judd

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Index:
00:00 Start
00:15 Summary
00:25 Sound Blankets
01:27 BMic & Boom Pole & C-stand
01:44 Budget Boom options
02:02 Get Microphone Close
02:22 Audio recorded separate from camera
02:50 Budget Tascam
03:27 Post workflow
04:19 Isotope RX for processing
04:32 EQ
04:43 Denoise or Dialogue Isolate
05:08 De-reverb
05:26 Breath control
06:19 Loudness Normalize
06:29 Compression
06:46 Final Cut Pro
06:56 Sync audio to video
07:03 Crossfade cuts
07:44 Please buy my courses