When is my Voice Over or Podcast Audio Good Enough to Release? how to listen critically tips for recording dialog transform your voice recording

A man using a microphone to record his voice.

Let's say you just captured a voice recording for your podcast and it sounds good...

You made sure to record in a quiet space and you checked to make sure your volume levels were at a good place.

The volume isn't too loud, where the dialogue is distorted and going into the red (clipping), but...

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How to Remove Background Noise from Voice Recordings Pt.7 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove background noise

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In the preceding post, we learned a huge time saving technique using a noise gate after noise reduction to clear background noise in dialogue voice recordings.

Along with that technique in part 6, we learned the simple step by step method to use a noise reduction tool like RX's de-noiser in part...

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How to Remove Background Noise from Voice Recordings Pt.6 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove background noise

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We already learned how to clean up background noise in your voice recording using a noise reduction tool.

But you may still be hearing random leftover noises between phrases (hint: you WILL have these leftover noises if your recordings are anything like mine).

These would be noises that come and...

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How to Remove Background Noise from Voice Recordings Pt.4 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove background noise

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In the preceding post, we learned important concepts about the best way to train iZotope RX's spectral de-noise module before it can remove background noise.

Along with those concepts in part 3, we learned what makes the spectral de-noise module so powerful and when to use it in part...

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How to Remove Background Noise from Voice Recordings Pt.3 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove background noise

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We've already learned how to recognize background noise and what makes the spectral de-noiser in iZotope RX so powerful.

Now we'll learn how to train the spectral de-noiser to allow it to remove background noise in your dialogue recordings most effectively.

This method will set you up for crisp...

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Remove Mouth Noises in Voice Over or Podcast Audio Pt.5 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove mouth noises

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We learned how to zoom in and get rid of stubborn, remaining mouth clicks in voice recordings in the previous post.

With the mouth clicks gone from bad spots, we've cleaned things up nicely, but we're not done yet...

Like the left over mouth clicks remaining after our gentle pass through the...

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Remove Mouth Noises in Voice Over or Podcast Audio Pt.3 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove mouth noises

Two men recording a podcast using two microphones

In the previous post, we learned how to use the mouth de-click module in iZotope RX to remove mouth sounds from an entire podcast, sermon or voice-over for video.

We talked about doing this by setting up and using a gentle pass with mouth de-click in Part 2. This setting allowed us to...

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Remove Mouth Noises in Voice Over or Podcast Audio Pt.2 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove mouth noises

A woman using an audio editor and headphones

We learned how to recognize different types of mouth noises in our dialogue recordings in the previous post.

We talked about using both our ears and eyes to spot them in Part 1.

That's because first being able to recognize the pesky, sticky sounding clicks is key in allowing us to get rid...

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Remove Mouth Noises in Voice Over or Podcast Audio Pt.1 clean up dialog recording how to listen critically how to remove mouth noises

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Mouth clicks - those pesky watery sounding pops heard during or after a spoken phrase in our voice recordings...

They might also be called mouth pops or smacks and this problem often plagues our voice-over, podcast or sermon audio.

Unfortunately, mouth clicks...

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How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Mastering Step 9 eq dialog start to finish how to listen critically

We've made it to the end of the mastering phase for your podcast, sermon or voice recording for video - the process of finalizing audio before it's released to your listeners.

We already learned how to use EQ to correct any remaining problem spots at the beginning of our mastering...

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