In other posts we've gone in depth learning how to get rid of background noise using iZotope RX's spectral de-noiser and standalone noise gates.

But what if you don't have access to the $400.00 iZotope software and still have background noise problems to clean up in your dialogue recordings?

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So you just recorded a portion of dialogue for your podcast or voice-over for video.

But when you listen back to the recording, something doesn't sound right...

The spoken words aren't as clear as you had hoped and you hear all kinds of noises in the recording that aren't supposed to be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”?...

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...