I hate crappy audio does your audio suck
on your Canon DSLR camera if so I got
the fix for you today we're gonna go
into the levels menu and we're gonna
adjust that so your audio sounds great
let's get right to it
alright this is what the auto sounds
like when you put it on auto mode as you
can see it's not the best it's not it's
not horrible however it could be a lot
better alright so this is what the audio
sounds like after we've adjusted the
levels and as you can see it sounds so
much better so let me show you how to do
it alright the first thing you need is a
microphone to go into your microphone
jack now you can use lav mics that go on
here and work wirelessly however you're
gonna have to sync the audio in
post-production and that's kind of a
pain in the butt so what I recommend is
you just get a microphone like this this
is the rode videomic however I just
ordered the rode videomic pro plus and
I'll put the link to that in the
description below this mic has had a lot
of use and to be honest it's good but
it's not as good as the rode videomic
pro or the videomic pro plus now you
want to make sure that you connect the
microphone cord into the little outlet
that says mic you also have your
headphone jack right here this is a
Canon 80 D so I'm just gonna put it into
the mic port right there so you can see
the mic alright you could put the
headphones in here and listen to the
audio however a lot of times on location
or different you go different places
it's hard to do that especially when
you're vlogging and filming yourself so
I'm gonna show you a way to do it
without headphones
however using headphones is a good way
to double check your audio okay so you
want to make sure the microphone is
always pointed towards your mouth you
could hold the microphone above you or
to the side but the most important thing
is that is pointed towards where you're
speaking okay so obviously I'm really
close to the microphone it's not the
most realistic however we're gonna do
this for the sake of the video so you
understand how to adjust
your levels alright guys so the first
thing we want to do is turn our camera
on and then we're gonna click on the
menu button alright and now we got our
menus alright guys so the first thing we
want to do is turn our camera on then
we're gonna press the menu button and
we're gonna want to go over here to
sound recording we're going to click on
that and then where it says sound record
we're going to go to manual ok so now
what you're gonna do is go down to
record level and you're gonna adjust
this alright normally it's gonna be all
the way up and as you can see when I
move it up it's going way past that
number 12 that number 12 is where we
want to be we want to be right around
that because the number 12 is where our
audio is gonna sound the best under it
it's gonna be too soft and over it it's
gonna peak and it's gonna blow out the
audio so we're gonna go down until we're
all the way at the bottom now you got to
move the mic to the appropriate distance
away from you and speak normally into
the mic as you speak into the mic you're
gonna hear it go up to the point where
just keep speaking into the mic as you
move this point up and keep talking and
talking and talking
you can speak normal how you would with
the mic the right distance away from you
and as you can see as I'm talking I can
see it's that right about here it
reaches the number 12 so it should be if
you're talking it should go right around
12 if it goes over too much it's not
good you want to be right around 12 so I
can see that when I talk like this it
goes right around 12 and this is the
right point for me maybe a little bit
over there we go so this is the right
point and it sees peaking right at
number 12 right around it so this is
where I want to leave it and I set it
and then I'm all done remember as you're
adjusting those levels you need to have
the mic the right distance away from
your mouth
if you're gonna speak it to the camera
from this distance adjust the levels
while you're speaking from this distance
alright a good way to adjust that
especially if you have like a Canon a TD
is to move the screen out what's great
about Canon cameras is that they have a
lot of models where the screen comes out
so you can adjust the levels as you're
talking into the screen so I can move
back talk normal and I can see on the
screen where the levels are moving so
right now I see it's way too high so I'm
going to adjust it and I'm gonna keep
talking until it moves down to about
number 12 which is right about here and
then I'm gonna set it so I know if I
speak from this distance the audio now
is gonna be at 12 which is right where I
want it to be okay to recap put your
audio around number 12 at all times and
you can say goodbye to sucky audio I
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