Today. I'm going to show.
You how I record high quality audio.
from my USB mike into my computer.
Let's get started.
Saturday
So you might see that
some people have these really impressive
audio interfaces on their desktop,
that they hook up their mike to start
where they can record it
in their computer.
I don't use that.
I just have a.
Road anti USB mini microphone and I.
Use a USB C to USB.
Directly into my MacBook Pro. Laptop.
So after it's.
Plugged in, you're going to go
up to your preferences.
This is going to look different on a PC.
Of course, but just go to your.
Sound settings on your PC
and here is the sound
and you'll see underneath input.
I have the road.
And the USB mini selected
and using this input volume,
you can make it. Lower or higher.
Depending on the volume of your voice.
So if you're a very loud speaker.
You may want to bring this down.
So it's a little bit
more quiet and sensitive.
I like to have it a little bit higher.
And you can always make adjustments
later on.
But the key
is not to have it peak too much
because then it's going to be distorted
and unusable.
So the first way to record
is using the free. App on your computer.
If you're on a Mac,
you can use the QuickTime player up.
If you're on a. PC, you can use the.
Voice recorder. App.
I'm on a Mac, so I'm going to go.
Up to file.
Once I'm inside of QuickTime player
and just.
Select new audio. Recording.
And from here you can actually.
See the levels, which is very useful.
And from the dropdown here, you can.
Select.
Which microphone you want to use,
and then you.
Would just tap record
and you would start.
Recording
and then it will save as its own file
you can then import in use in Premiere.
Pro or.
Audition or.
Whatever tool you. Are using to.
Edit that audio with.
The second way to record.
Is by using a screen recording app.
So for my tutorials,
I record myself
via my camera
and I also record my screen
at the same time to illustrate
something that I'm doing
in Premiere Pro for example.
So what I end up doing is in the screen
recording app that he uses called Kaptio.
And most screen
recording apps will allow. You to choose.
An external input for your mic in.
I Choose the.
Road and USB Mini as the input.
So then I'm recording my screen
and I'm also recording my talking head
at the same time
and when I bring it in Premiere Pro,
I will then synchronize the on camera.
Audio with the high quality.
Road and I. Will disable.
The camera audio.
So that.
Way I'm just getting the high quality.
Audio.
From my USB mike.
The third way that you can record
is by recording.
Directly into a creative. Software.
Like Premiere Pro or Edition.
So if you're recording a podcast
or a music or an audio book,
this might be one of the reasons.
That you record
into the creative software.
So I'm going to show you how. To record.
Into Premiere. Pro. But first.
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Now let me show you
how to record in Premiere Pro
and how I adjust my audio levels.
So it sounds great.
So the.
First thing you need to do is
make sure your audio input is. Correct.
So go up to Premiere Pro Preferences
Audio Hardware,
and for the input you want to.
Select the. Road and to USP Mini or.
Another.
USB mic that you're using and press. Yes.
And then press OK.
Then we need to make a sequence
to record into so you can click on the.
Negative space here.
New item sequence
and you can choose one of the presets.
I'll just use.
DSLR ten, ADP,
24 frames per second and now.
You will see that we have a.
Sequence open and there's.
Also three audio tracks here.
So if you. Want to.
Record a voice to audio.
Track one, for example.
Just select this little. Icon here.
Voiceover record.
And once you select this,
it'll count down from three
and now it's recording
and you can see
my audio levels on the right.
And if it's way
too high and it's peaking,
that's when you need to go back
into your computer settings
and adjust that input level.
So it's not as hot.
Because it's OK if it's a little bit.
Lower than it needs to be
because we can always.
Improve that.
Later on in post-production.
So after you're done recording,
you're like OK, I'm done.
Then you can just.
Click. On the.
Voiceover record. Again and it stops.
And now you can see we.
Have the recorded audio directly.
Here in Premiere Pro,
and over in the project panel
you can see.
It was saved as a doorway file, which is.
Automatically. Saved.
In the. Folder that your.
Premiere pro.
Project is saved.
And so it. Creates a new one called.
Captured Audio.
And a. Folder for the.
Project, and it will.
Save all of the files
that you've ever recorded
so you can see I've recorded other files.
But then deleted them from the project
panel already.
But they still exist here.
Saved as doorway.
File, which is uncompressed. Audio.
Which is fantastic.
But what do I.
Do to make the audio sound. Great?
This is where I go up.
To the Essential Sound panel and I.
Select dialog.
The first thing that I do. Is select.
Auto match
to make sure that the loudness
is at the correct standard for.
Broadcast.
So when I turn off the loudness,
you can see how the way form
just drops down a bit.
This is what it.
Was when I recorded. It direct.
Out of mic, which was.
Still. Great.
But when I select Auto Match,
it just brings it up a bit to make.
Sure it's not the. Correct standard CD.
There's a few other.
Things you can do with a central sound.
If there's a.
Little bit of a.
Hum or a background noise,
you can check reduce noise.
I only use a little bit
like maybe point four.
Just to get.
Rid of any like,
you know,
hums from my laptops
or fan or anything like that.
If you have any echo,
you can use reduced reverb.
So what.
If you want to make sure that you.
Can hear your audio.
With music in the background?
So I actually downloaded
a track from Epidemic's Sound here.
Called Poetic Wax by Dusty Decks
and if I drag and drop this.
Music track onto.
Audio track too, when we play this back.
You can hear that the music is.
Too loud and tones recording
audio levels to.
Lower the music level.
Select. The music track, go to music.
Let me zoom in before I.
Select that.
So you can see what happens auto match
and it just. Lowers. It all down, right?
And if it's way too high
and it's peaking,
that's
when you need to go back
into your computers
so we can hear the music
and we can hear the voice.
If you need to lower the music track
even more, just a tad bit,
you can use the clip volume down here.
Just to lower this. Down slightly.
Settings and adjust that input level
so it's not.
As hot
because it's OK
if it's a little bit lower.
So that's. How you can mix music.
With dialog.
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