Make Your Voice Sound AMAZING — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you clicked on this video, your mic
2. 0:01probably sounds very bad or you want to
3. 0:03make your current mic sound a lot better
4. 0:05than it does now. In this video, I'll go
5. 0:07over the microphone and software to get
6. 0:10the best audio for content creation.
7. 0:12I personally use a Shure SM7B, but that
8. 0:15is a $500 microphone. And for this
9. 0:18video, FIFINE have sent me over their
10. 0:21AM8 dynamic microphone, which is only 50
11. 0:23bucks. And for what you get, this is
12. 0:25really good. Let's get into it. All you
13. 0:27got to do is just plug it in. And now
14. 0:29we're on the AM8 dynamic microphone.
15. 0:32Keep in mind, there's still stuff to do,
16. 0:35but this is how it sounds like out of
17. 0:37the box when you just plug it in. And
18. 0:39honestly, it sounds pretty good.
19. 0:40Something to keep in mind is look at the
20. 0:42polar pattern of the microphone. If you
21. 0:45buy the same one, it's on the box right
22. 0:47here. For some mics, you might need to
23. 0:48search it on the internet. This is a big
24. 0:50thing that people skip and get it wrong.
25. 0:52Here's why it's important. A polar
26. 0:54pattern shows where your mic will sound
27. 0:56the clearest. On the sides, it will
28. 0:57sound not as good, as you can tell. And
29. 1:00then if you speak in it from the back,
30. 1:02it will just be really bad. So, make
31. 1:04sure you speaking into the front of your
32. 1:06microphone. There's also buttons on the
33. 1:08thing, which is gain and headphone
34. 1:10volume. I just usually like to leave it
35. 1:12at 50/50. And also, I'm not plugging in
36. 1:14my headphones into the mic, but if you
37. 1:16do that, it's fun to mess with. Also,
38. 1:18there's a button for customizing the
39. 1:19lights on it, so.
40. 1:21All right, so next up, what you're going
41. 1:23to need is Wave Link 3.0. This is
42. 1:25currently the best software for audio
43. 1:27for content creators. Download it. Once
44. 1:30you have it downloaded, set up your
45. 1:31output device and input device. Yours is
46. 1:33not going to look like this. Yours is
47. 1:34going to look very empty. And yours
48. 1:36might not even have this mic, but all
49. 1:38you got to do is just go to create
50. 1:40channel and it will be right here in
51. 1:42inputs. Now, here's a whole new world
52. 1:44for you, but right now I'm just going to
53. 1:46focus on the microphone. What you want
54. 1:48to do first is get to the marketplace.
55. 1:50Don't worry, you won't have to spend a
56. 1:51dime. Get these three plugins, the noise
57. 1:54removal, the EQ, and the compressor.
58. 1:58These three will turn your mic from
59. 2:00sounding like from an absolute newbie
60. 2:01mic to sounding [music]
61. 2:03something really good. And I'm going to
62. 2:05explain what each does in a second. Once
63. 2:07you do that, go into here and add your
64. 2:09effect. You can see I've already added
65. 2:11mine, so I'm just going to switch to the
66. 2:15FIFINE mic now and I'll explain what
67. 2:17each of these does right now. Noise
68. 2:18removal basically does what it says. You
69. 2:20You're going to hear my fans are going
70. 2:22to stop being in the background right
71. 2:24now.
72. 2:25Now you only hear mostly my voice, and
73. 2:26that's good. You don't need any
74. 2:27background noise. You don't need your PC
75. 2:29fans to be on. You don't need your cat
76. 2:31eating in the background to be heard.
77. 2:32Here's settings you can mess with by
78. 2:34yourself. I don't recommend it if you're
79. 2:35starting out. EQ, turn it on. This is
80. 2:38what I have here. You can copy my
81. 2:40settings, but most of this is going to
82. 2:42be specific for your voice. You can copy
83. 2:45mine, but it's not going to sound as
84. 2:47good as mine, if you know what I mean.
85. 2:49You're going to have to like mess around
86. 2:50with these, but with the Elgato EQ, it's
87. 2:53good cuz you see the frequencies are
88. 2:54divided. the rumble, sub bass. This is
89. 2:57the warmth. This is the boxy stuff. You
90. 2:59don't want the boxy stuff and you don't
91. 3:01really want the nasal stuff. This is
92. 3:03what it would sound like without me
93. 3:04cutting out those frequencies, and this
94. 3:06is it with. You don't want those, too.
95. 3:07Presence you want, warmth you want, but
96. 3:09boxy and nasal and sub bass, avoid
97. 3:12those. And then, compressor. Now, once
98. 3:14you get into the setting, Elgato can do
99. 3:16it for you, which you should accept.
100. 3:19It's
101. 3:20really good. But if you want to compress
102. 3:21it yourself,
103. 3:23uh you can do that by just dragging this
104. 3:25along. Uh I don't recommend going
105. 3:27anywhere over -30,
106. 3:31cuz this is what it sounds like. And uh
107. 3:33yeah, just keep it below -30, I'd say.
108. 3:37Okay, so I just edited the footage down,
109. 3:39but this is really messing with me. So,
110. 3:42basically, you heard me being cut in and
111. 3:44out, and that's because of this
112. 3:46threshold. If you're being cut out like
113. 3:49me every once in a while, then lower
114. 3:51this. It will it will add more
115. 3:54background noise, but it will not cut
116. 3:57you in like abruptly like it was doing.
117. 3:59So, mess with this and then you should
118. 4:01be fine. And now you should have a very
119. 4:02good sounding microphone. And now listen
120. 4:04to the difference of before adding the
121. 4:07plugins and now after adding the
122. 4:08plugins. Also, one thing I should have
123. 4:10mentioned in the start, make sure the
124. 4:12gain is set to a level that doesn't go
125. 4:14over the red line or even the yellow
126. 4:16line cuz as you'll hear when you get
127. 4:18over it, it's really bad. I'm sorry
128. 4:20about that, but yeah. Yeah, that's kind
129. 4:22of the end for this video. If you need
130. 4:25any help with audio, be sure to join my
131. 4:27Discord. It's in the link below. If you
132. 4:29want to buy this mic, it is also in the
133. 4:32description. And thank you for all the
134. 4:34members who have joined this channel.
135. 4:35Members get extra videos on how to make
136. 4:37stuff in more detail and stuff like
137. 4:39that. Just the normal videos are more
138. 4:41boring, so more detailed than stuff.
139. 4:43So, yeah.