hey what's up guys so today we're gonna do something a little bit different I
have a couple of people that have requested me to show them or make a
video on how I record the audio on my youtube channel now for some of you that
are not very familiar with the cameras the camera that I have which is the Sony a5000 doesn't have a
microphone input meaning that have to record the audio through a different
source so basically I use a twenty dollar lavalier your mic and I'm gonna show
you the whole workflow from start to finish let's go now the first thing that
you need is a good level your mic the one that I got cost me about 20 dollars
I got it about two years ago and it's working really well now the name of this
company is called my own oh and I'll have a link in the description below if
you guys want to go check it out I picked it up from Amazon and as I
mentioned it's been working great the second thing you're gonna need is
something to record the audio and if you don't want to spend money just use your
cell phone I usually use my Galaxy Note 8 the Galaxy Note 9 or the galaxy note 5
any of those phones will be just fine any of the latest phones if you have an
iPhone it's gonna do a pretty good job now if you have a budget phone I did
notice that if I'd use some of the budget phones the sound quality is not
gonna be the same for example in the Galaxy Note 4 some of the city phones
that I've tried before the quality may not be the same so just keep that in
mind the third thing that you're gonna need is a good app to record the audio
you're gonna be able to find many apps that claim to be the best recording apps
now I tested have several ones and I basically been using the same one for a
long time now the name of the app that I use is high Q and B - recording and
again I'll have the information in the description below do you want to go
check it out later and I notice that many other youtubers have used the same
app this app it's free you can record up to 10 minutes so just remember the only
catch on this is that on the free trial or the free version you can record up to
10 minutes you have to stop the recording or it will stop it for you and
then you have to start again and the fourth thing that you're gonna need is
an audio editor and I use audacity if you're not familiar with it just google
it go to youtube people show you how to install it it's free is probably one of
the best audio editors you can find that it's free and it works just fine now
that I got that out of the way let me tell you a little bit of what I do
before I start recording as I'm standing right now as you can see first I make
sure I find a good spot that I'm not gonna get a lot of echo and if I have
echo like you can probably get some echo right now but I'll try to cover the
background if I have like a blanket if I have the lights I try to get them closer
just so eliminate some of the echo next thing to keep in mind is that you
want to be in a quiet environment for example you don't want to make sure the
refrigerators turned off you want to make sure the AC the heater is off you
want to make sure that there's no environment nice outside if you have an
airplane going by view have a car driving by just just wait for it and the
most important thing is and you got to keep this in - you got to capture at
least five seconds of the environment noise which we're going to eliminate
later when we edit the audio and what I do is basically I make sure there's
absolutely no noise that I can control in the house and I just hold my breath
and I stay quiet for five to ten seconds once you capture that five to ten
seconds of environment noise this is going to be very important and very
helpful later in the process next before you start recording you want to make
sure you have the right settings in the app and basically what I do when it
comes to the type of value that I'm going to record on I'm just gonna use
the WAV format and compress it and this is the most important factor I keep it
at negative 2 decibels now if you leave it on audio or you leave it on zero your
audio is gonna be distorted no matter what you do so what happens is if you
leave it on outer and you just talk in normal you know the art is gonna be good
but the moment you speak a little bit louder or you make a certain move and
you get closer to the mic you're gonna have a high on the audio and the art is
gonna be distorted and there's nothing you can do during the editing process
that's gonna fix that and your art is just gonna be messed up so by doing
negative 12 decibels this is gonna make sure that your audio is pretty steady
and you're not gonna have those high pitches that is gonna make your audio
sound bad and later on in the process we're gonna increase the gain to make
sure we bring it back to negative 6 decibels and that is it's gonna be just
fine so now that we get that out of the way now we're going to go ahead and go
to the computer and we're gonna move into the editing process the next thing
I got to do is just basically get the audio out of the phone and get it into
the computers here I can just upload it to Dropbox or just program it to have it
to upload to Google Drive automatically as soon as I finish recording in this
case we're gonna use again it's called audacity and if you're not familiar with
it just google it there's a lot of YouTube videos I will show you how to
install it just the basics you don't have to become a professional just
understand how it works and how it can be installed so once we got the files in
the computer we're basically just going to grab them and we're going to import
them into audacity so once we have the outing editors the first thing we want
to do is remember those fighters and second samples that we get of the
environmentally so we're gonna capture those 5 to 10 seconds and if you have
your headphones just lessen to it and make sure that all you hear is just
a regular environment no it's like you don't get any random hearing noise or
anything that stands out it's not normal once you get that clear 5 to 10 seconds
what you're gonna do is you're gonna go to effects under effects you can click
on noise reduction I don't know his reduction you're gonna click on get
noise profile and once you get the profile then you're gonna come back and
select and do control all select all the audio once you have all the artists
selected you now go back to effects and then you're gonna click on noise
reduction and again you're gonna click OK and what he's gonna do is basically
it's going to go through the all the audio both of the audio stand is gonna
try to eliminate environment noise from the sample that we gather if you want to
know more about this just google it go to youtube you cannot you're gonna be
able to find more videos that will talk about exactly what I just went over but
it they will go more in detail I don't want to drag this video into this so if
you go back and you listen to the sample you shouldn't get that much environment
noise and you're gonna notice difference on the sound quality now very important
now what I do here is remember we record it on negative 12 decibels so now we
want to go back and we want to increase the audio the gain so what I do here I
usually go up to 6 and this is basically been working for me we go back and do
the same thing down here and what this is gonna do is this is gonna bring it
down to negative see negative 6 decimal so as you can see up here you can see
it's not getting past negative 6 now if the audio gets past negative 6 is what's
gonna cause the idea to get distorted and then just the audio doesn't sound
good so then once we have the audio adjust it what we do is we just select
all then we go to file and then we're just gonna export and it's going to tell
you where you export them now I'm gonna show you how you can integrate it into
your video editor and how you can align it with the audio from the video and
keep it in mind the concept is gonna be the same your video editor may be a
little bit different I use Adobe Premiere Elements 15 we got our a roll
here we're gonna bring your bring in the audio that we just edit it let's zoom in
as much as we can this is gonna allow us to move it around and just line it up as
the closest that it should be alright if you notice you have the markets
up here basically we'll let you know how much you can move it that's pretty
that's pretty close as you can see it was pretty pretty straightforward very
easy now I just done a sample and you should be able to just do sample tests
around audio sounds sounds good so what we want to do is we want to turn off the
audio from the camera that was recording and you get to go I really hope that
this video provided some value and may help some people that are starting their
YouTube channel or just overall when I go around and and record some
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