Make Amateur Voice-Over Sound Professional (With Bad Gear)

Stop wrestling with voiceovers! This course has everything you need to turn an average recording into a crisp voice-over

What you'll learn

You'll learn to optimize your environment for better voice-over quality in minutes.

You'll find out how to enhance voice-over audio in Audacity & Premiere Pro.

You'll discover how to record voice-overs at home without expensive equipment.

You'll learn to improve audio editing skills with Audacity & Premiere Pro tips and tricks.

You'll find out the best Premiere Pro export settings for great sounding YouTube videos.

You'll discover how to balance background music and sound effects with voice-over audio.

You'll learn how to speak to a microphone to avoid plosives.

You'll find about how to apply audio effects and what they do: audio limiter, compressor, normalization, noise reduction, EQ, and more.

Requirements

A device with a microphone (could be a laptop or MacBook, phone, earbuds or a dedicated mic).

Audio editing software (Audacity (available free) + Premiere Pro)

Description

In this course, you'll learn how to record and enhance voiceover audio. I will walk you through my voiceover recording and voiceover editing process in Audacity and Premiere Pro. You don't have to have any prior knowledge of voiceover and audio editing software because I will show every intricate detail and walk you through my voiceover enhancement process step-by-step.Lessons in this course will cover topics on:How to improve voice-over audioHow to optimize your environment for better voiceover qualityHow to record voiceovers at homeMicrophone locationSetting up audacityAudio limiterAudio compressorAudio normalizationNoise reductionHow to export audioAudacity tips and tricksParametric EqualizerGraphic EqualizerHard LimiterEditing voiceovers for YouTube videosBalancing audio levels between background music and voice-overBest audio export settings for YouTube videosPremiere Pro tips and tricks for editing audioAssignment:Record and enhance an audio clip using the key takeaways from this course.Steps:Record a short audio clip with any microphone of yourself saying a few sentences in the environment that you’re in right now.After the course, record the same thing but apply an edit in audacity, and an edit in Premiere Pro.After you have 2 clips - one without any post-production and environment design and the other one with, you'll be able to compare the difference between the two voiceover clips and see the progress you’ve made.The main thing I want to emphasize is that it’s very important to try out the new things that you learn yourself. Our brains are not designed for keeping information when we don’t put it to use.That’s why I encourage you to open Audacity and Premiere and go along with me pausing the course along the way and enhancing your voice-over or trying the keyboard shortcuts, tips and techniques yourself as I showcase them.That way you're going to improve your chances of actually remembering the things you learn when you need to use them in the future.So whether you create YouTube videos, Instagram reels, or TikToks, this course will help you improve the audio quality of your videos.Let’s get started! I can’t wait to see what you create!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 The Assignment

Section 2: Recording the Voice-Over

Lecture 3 How to Set up the Recording Environment

Lecture 4 How to Talk to a Microphone

Section 3: Enhance Voice-Over Audio in Audacity

Lecture 5 Setting Up Audacity

Lecture 6 Enhancing Voice-Over in Audacity

Lecture 7 Creating a Preset in Audacity

Lecture 8 Audacity Tips & Keyboard Shortcuts

Section 4: Enhance Voice-Over Audio in Premiere Pro

Lecture 9 Enhancing Voice-Over in Premiere Pro

Lecture 10 Creating a Preset in Premiere Pro

Lecture 11 Premiere Pro Tips & Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing Audio

Lecture 12 Levelling Voiceover With Background Music and Sound Effects

Lecture 13 Best Audio Export Settings for YouTube in Premiere Pro

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 14 Conclusion

This course is for anyone looking to enhance their voiceover quality or learn how to edit audio in Audacity and Premiere Pro.,YouTubers,Course creators,Social media influencers (Instagram, TikTok)