Plan ahead, if you think you will get louder, back off the mic a bit when you do talk louder. Yes, sometimes we get too loud when we get excited and the peak gets much hotter. You want the waveform to be nice and even with the peaks uniformly getting between that -6 and -4 threshold. If the peaks go all the way to the top and bottom and beyond, your recoding will distort. The point of no sound is between the two, what we call the вЂњnominalвЂќ line, and thats where the VO scale shows вЂњ0.вЂќ If your waveform shows peaks way below the -6 to -4dB range, you are recording too low. The top peak is loud as is the bottom peak. The waveform is a graphic representation of how loud or soft your recording is over time.Д¬ontrary to what many think, you are actually looking at this graphic from the top, not the side. What is that squiggle? ItвЂ™s called a waveform.

Two totally different things!Дў.Proper mic technique вЂ“ Depending on the mic you use, and in podcasting you have many choices, how you address your microphone will determine how natural you will sound.ДЈ.Setting proper input levels вЂ“ which is the subject of this article. 1.Three things create proper audio: Three things create proper audio:ДЎ.Proper acoustics- Minimal to no sound coming in from outside your recording space and no sound bouncing around and creating an echo your recording space. I know you want sound вЂњgreat.вЂќ By using proper methods, your audio will always be clean crisp and not a distraction to the message you are presenting. The idea is not to sound вЂњgreat.вЂќ ItвЂ™s to not sound вЂњbad.вЂќ Bad audio will turn off a listener in 5 seconds. LetвЂ™s not overthink the audio quality for your podcast.

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