- #HOW TO USE PLUGINS WHEN MIXING LIVE SOUND PORTABLE#
- #HOW TO USE PLUGINS WHEN MIXING LIVE SOUND SERIES#
Now that the background noise has been suppressed, the rest of our processing chain deals with equalization and dynamics.
Repeat this process for each track that has unwanted noise and you should have much cleaner audio to edit and mix. Once X-Noise has been “trained”, simply dial in threshold and reduction settings so that the background noise is suppressed while preserving the fidelity of the original audio. Next, click the “Learn” button-this will create a noise profile for that track. To use X-Noise, simply find a portion of the audio track that contains no speaking and loop play that selection. Since everyone is recording from home, sources of unwanted noise can include air conditioners, refrigerators, computer fans, or an elevated noise-floor from mic pres. Background Noise SuppressionĪfter the raw audio is processed to remove egregious plosives and clicks, Waves X-Noise is used to suppress background noise. I generally use very gentle settings and then do some spot checks to make sure that the raw audio has not been adversely affected.
#HOW TO USE PLUGINS WHEN MIXING LIVE SOUND SERIES#
I like the Renaissance series for this workflow because the plugins have simple interfaces, sound pretty transparent, and let me dial in settings quickly.īefore I make a single edit, apply EQ, or use compression, I process all raw audio tracks off-line with one or more of the Izotope plugins listed above. I generally use Izotope plugins to handle the cleanup of the raw audio, and Waves Renaissance-series plugins for the EQ and compression processing. To start, here is the list of plugins I use when I edit and mix episodes of Talking Too Loud.
#HOW TO USE PLUGINS WHEN MIXING LIVE SOUND PORTABLE#
Zoom can be used to refer to the popular video-conferencing platform and can also refer to the brand that offers portable recording devices. Note: Zoom is mentioned twice above there are in fact two products that use the name Zoom. (There are settings within Zoom so that each participant’s audio is recorded to individual files.) All Zoom participants also record the streamed audio as a backup. Chris and Sylvie are each using a Shure SM7B going into a Zoom recorder, while the guest audio varies from episode to episode. Since there are three people in three locations, Wistia uses Zoom to facilitate the interaction between all of the guests. All episodes of Talking Too Loud have three participants-the host (Chris Savage), the producer (Sylvie Lubow), and an interview guest.