 Improve your video sound by using these nine pro hacks. Hey guys, JR Fisher back again, and I wanna talk to you today about the audio on your videos. Now, audio on videos is so very important because people will watch a video that doesn't have that great a video, but if the sound is off, if the sound is bad, if the sound is too low or too high or too echoey, you're gonna lose people. Now, my office is very echoey, and I've had to do some improvements, and I'm gonna talk about that in just one second, but I just wanna tell you, at the end of this video with these nine pro hacks, you're gonna have some really good audio on your videos. If that's what you're looking for, stick with me. I'm also gonna give you a free course worth $97 at the very end, so let's jump right into this. Like I said in the beginning, having good audio is so very important, and it's really important so that I can say, you need to subscribe and hit that button down there, and listen to the audio on this bell. That's the notification bell. You gotta also click all notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live. But all kidding aside, guys, you've gotta have good audio. It's so very important. That is the biggest thing. The biggest mess up I see with new people doing videos is not having good audio. So, check it out. The first thing you wanna do, and the first tip that I wrote down here to tell you guys, was to make sure you have the right microphone for the job. And everybody says, yeah, I've got a microphone on my phone. It works great. It may not. It may not be your best choice for a microphone. So what I wanna do is kinda go through the different microphones that you can use. All of these microphones I have used in one form or another, so I'm speaking from experience. But let's check them out, okay? Now, the first one I wanna tell you about is a shotgun microphone. A shotgun microphone is a microphone that's probably the easiest and most versatile microphone there is. The only drawback I would say to shotgun microphones is it's not really designed for very loud environments because it picks up a lot of sound from all around that particular microphone. So I wouldn't recommend it for that. But it's a good microphone. If you're not gonna be that far away from your subject, if you wanna hone in on the subject, if you don't have to worry about wires or cords or batteries or any of that stuff, shotgun microphones are pretty good. Now, the next one I wanna tell you about is wireless or cordless microphones. That's what I have on today. This is a Sinehauser, and I'm gonna put links to this in the description so you can find all these things. But this is a Sinehauser microphone. It's on the higher end. You don't have to get a super high-end one. I happened to like this one. I bought this microphone. Wow, I'm thinking like six years ago, but it's really high-end. It's very expensive, I will tell you that. But it works really well. It has good distance on it. So I could wear this microphone and it has a transmitter on it that transmits to the camera and it has a receiver on it. And then, of course, the sound matches up to that particular camera, and I can record it. The next one I wanna tell you about is a handheld microphone. Now, handheld microphones, maybe not so good for YouTube videos or anything like that, but if you're on stage and something like that and you wanna hold a microphone, obviously, handheld microphone would work fine for you. The next one, which is a lot cheaper than the one I'm wearing right now, is a wired lavalier microphone. It looks just like this. You clip it on, it has a cord on it, but the cord goes all the way to the camera and it doesn't have a transmitter. The other upside to that is you don't have to have batteries. Like, my transmitter here has to have batteries. There has to be batteries in the receiver or in the camera also. With a corded lavalier microphone, you don't have to do that. So it's basically a microphone that you clip on your body and it goes over to the camera. Now, number two. Step two is pick a good recording location. You don't want a lot of distractions. You don't want a lot of background noise. A good idea is to put some headphones on and listen to the sound and see what you hear because you may be in a room that has an air conditioner running or some buzz or something like that that your mind has kinda just tuned out when you put the headset on, you'll be able to actually hear that. So you wanna get rid of all those noises. I know in my old house, the AC would click on and off and I would have to turn off that AC to record anything which made it kinda hot in the studio, but I had to do that to get good sound. So you wanna check that out. That's tip two. Tip three, if you're recording outside and you have a microphone, you're gonna need some type of wind protection. Now, you may not even perceive that the wind is blowing, but when you're recording outside, believe me, there's always some type of wind, some type of little breeze that comes along and it will destroy your sound. We hear this all the time when people are trying to record, you hear all the wind noise on the outside, that's because they didn't put a wind protector on their microphone, you have to do that. And even really with some wind protectors, it's still not good enough, but that's my tip number three. Tip number four, consider a separate audio recording device. Now, cameras, most digital cameras, my cell phone camera have a noise control in there that keeps the level to a certain point, which may not be really advantageous to recording videos. If you record a separate video where you can control all the different levels, you're gonna end up with much better audio. So consider a separate one for doing audio. Tip five, use hardware limiters and compressors when you're recording in the studio. These will really help your audio quality and I'll also put a link in the description below so you can see more information about those. Tip six, apply sound restoration. So maybe you've done a video and it got totally ruined by some noises in the background. Maybe it was an air conditioner, maybe it was some type of buzzing noise, something like that. You can use some of these softwares to clear that up. I know in Camtasia, there is a background noise filter that you can put on there that gets rid of some of it, but when these separate pieces of software work really well. Tip seven, this is a big one. Get better at editing, get better at editing. The cuts from one scene to the other or let's say you're trying to take out a cough or a um or a huh or whatever, whatever kind of noise that is you don't want in there. Get better at doing that, practice that. I know I use Camtasia and I love Camtasia. It locks up every now and then, I don't love that part, but overall it's a really good software and I can zoom in on a wave file and I can take out very, very small areas of that particular file to make the sound better. So if you don't record great sound, you can always edit great sound. Tip eight is become familiar with audio equalization and frequency. Now, when you're doing audio adjustments sometimes have to be made and I would suggest you really kind of brushing up on mixing sounds. Different sounds react differently when recorded on audio and used in your video. So a voice is gonna be on a different frequency than would be music and those adjustments need to be made accordingly. So the more you can learn about that, the more you can change that, the more you can mix that, the better audio that you're actually gonna have for your videos. Number nine, consider deploying some secret weapons. There's some pretty cool stuff out there. Let's run over and take a look at some of these items. The first one that I'm gonna tell you about is the BBE Sonic Maximizer. The BBE Sonic Maximizer, okay. Here it is, right here on your screen. The BBE Sonic Maximizer Stereo Sonic Maximizer. Now I don't know how this stuff works. I'm just telling you this stuff works pretty good. It says here the Rolls HR261 Stereo Sonic Exciter is a two-channel frequency compensation device designed to add life and animation to your sound. The frequency range that a human ear can detect is roughly 20Hz to 20kHz. However, the frequency response, a normal speaker can effectively reproduce is actually much less. Additionally, speakers add distortion and phase changes that make the sound different from that of the original material. Now I don't know what all that means. I don't know what all that means. I just know it makes the sound better and that's something you could deploy in your videos. And the other one I wanna show you, let's run back over here and check it out, is the Alfex 2042 channel Aureal Exciter with big bottom bass enhancer. And you can read all the specifics about what this thing does, but basically it makes the sound better. So are we cheating a little bit? Sure we are, sure we are. It's okay to cheat a little bit to have better sound. The better your sound, the more views you're gonna get on your videos. So I can't impress this upon you enough guys. Make sure you have great sound. Great sound, so very important. My sound in here is not perfect. I'm still working on my office. I just put a carpet down here. I've got some sound walls over in this direction right here, but I keep working on it. I keep trying to get it better. The point is you need to have good audio, okay? Just depending on that sound on your camera, the sound on your digital camera or your iPhone camera or something like that, it's just not gonna be as good. So you wanna try to do something to improve it. I hope this video helps you out. I hope it helps you get better sound. I would like to see you post some links below of some videos you've done. And I wanna listen to them. I wanna hear what they sound like. I would really appreciate that. If you have any problems, any questions, post that in the comments below. I also have a free course. It's a $97 course. You can get absolutely free. I will have that posted in the description below. It's click and learn. You don't even have to have a credit card or anything. All you gotta do is click and learn that information. I thank you so much for watching this video. I really appreciate it. Don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to turn on all the bell notifications. Ring the bell so that you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a new video. I really appreciate you being here. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up. Grab that course below and I'll see you in the next video. 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