How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Editing Step 5 eq dialog start to finish how to listen critically

Learn how to get your voice recording sounding clear and beautiful (just how you hear it sounding in your head)!

Specifically, we're covering the many ways you can use an EQ to sculpt and improve the sound of your dialogue recordings in the recording and editing phases.

One of the...

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How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Editing Step 4 eq dialog start to finish

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So you have your voice recording, maybe for a podcast, that's been nicely sculpted with EQ after recording it.

In addition, you even used a reference recording as your guide for the EQing - you're doing great!

Now we enter the editing phase to learn how to further improve your dialogue...

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How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Recording Step 3 eq dialog start to finish how to listen critically


To capture your voice recording, you already made sure to follow all the tips and tricks to get the clearest dialogue audio possible. Great job!

Now, after the recording process, how do you bring the quality up even higher using an equalizer or EQ?

We've been learning to mold and transform our...

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How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Recording Step 2 eq dialog start to finish how to de-ess how to listen critically

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You've worked hard with your microphone placement and recording levels to capture a great sounding spoken word recording.

However, you find that it just doesn't sound as clear and crisp as you'd like it to, especially compared to other dialogue recordings online...

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How to EQ Your Dialogue from Start to Finish: Recording Step 1 eq dialog start to finish how to listen critically

An audio mixing desk with equalizer and volume controls for each channel
So, you've worked hard to capture your voice recording for a podcast or your pastor's sermon or your audio for video.

But, it just doesn't sound as clear or have the impact of other voice recordings you listen to and enjoy...

Enter the humble EQ...one of the most powerful tools to sculpt the...

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Ice Pick to the Ear: How to Deal With Sibilance in Your Dialogue how to de-ess how to listen critically transform your voice recording

A woman holding her ears in pain in front of a wall of multiple speakers.
Owww! Grimace! Wince! Those painful "S" and "T" sounds in words that jump out of your speakers are called sibilance and they can hurt!

It can actually be painful to your listener when not reined in properly since it's in and around the frequencies that our human ears are most sensitive to.

Look...

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How Using a Reference Can Save Your Bacon (and Your Audio for Video) how to listen critically transform your voice recording

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For a recent video, I almost made a huge blunder with the audio after doing countless tweaks and processing moves to try to make it sound its best.

With some of the processing steps where I was taking things out to improve the recording, I actually ended up losing some of the clarity that the...

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How to Remove Something to Improve Your Dialogue Audio clean up dialog recording how to de-ess transform your voice recording

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Did you know you can sweeten and improve the sound of your voice recording (podcasts, voice-overs for video and sermons) simply by removing a few particular trouble spots?

It's true and it's often the best place to start when you're recording dialogue or spoken word recordings from home.

There's...

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How Listening Can Improve Your Voice-Over, Podcast or Sermon Audio how to listen critically transform your voice recording

So you have a decent sounding recording for your podcast, sermon or voice-over for video, but you want to take it up a notch in quality (and you can't re-record it).

You may be asking yourself, “How do I even start to know how to improve or correct the sound of my voice recording”?...

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How to Volume Match Your Recording to a Reference Recording how to listen critically transform your voice recording

Did you ever have a good sounding recording for your podcast, sermon or voice-over for video that you wanted to take up a notch in quality (but you can’t go back and re-record it)?

How do you make sure your podcast, sermon or voice-over for video is actually listened to rather than being...

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