{"id":3340,"date":"2011-09-08T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:15:53","slug":"video-tutorial-mixing-voice-over-with-music-bed-using-dynamic-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/video-tutorial-mixing-voice-over-with-music-bed-using-dynamic-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Tutorial: Mixing Voice-Over with Music Bed using Dynamic Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a guest post by Dave Dugdale from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LearningDSLRVideo.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">LearningDSLRVideo.com<\/a> you can find more of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningdslrvideo.com\/category\/product-reviews\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">DSLR Reviews<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningdslrvideo.com\/category\/video-tutorials\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">tutorials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LearningDSLRVideo.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">on his site.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28734169?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"video-transcript\">Video transcript:<\/h2>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #999; padding: 10px; background: #EEE;\">Hello everyone this is Dave Dugdale from LearningDSLRVideo.com. The good people at PremiumBeat were nice enough to let me do a video tutorial here on their site about how to control your dynamics on a voice over to mix with a music bed.The first thing I do is my voice over, just personal preference but I don&#8217;t listen to the music while I record the voice over.<\/p>\n<p>Next I normalize my voice over track. I like to leave some head room so I usually don&#8217;t like peaks on the meter going above -6dB most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>If I get that too close to 0dB I know from experience that it will distort when I watch it on my TV set.<\/p>\n<p>Before I bring in the music I like to make my voice over less dynamic, so in Premiere I go to the audio mixing control tab and then click on this somewhat hidden pull-down.<\/p>\n<p>Since order matters I want to first add EQ before I add any dynamics because the frequency response can have an effect on the dynamics so I add those first.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am using a Rode VideoMic which not a professional mic and while it has some pretty nice low end, I feel the that the higher frequencies around 5k are a little dull so I add the treble effect and increase it about 4dB which helps my voice cut through the music a little bit better.<\/p>\n<p>I add in the dynamics effect. Starting at the top of the parameters is the automatic gate, this I have used before.<\/p>\n<p>But since I have background music below me and I have recorded my voice over is a quiet room I just leave it off.<\/p>\n<p>I turn on the compressor on, then I turn the threshold to -12dB, that works well for my voice.<\/p>\n<p>I usually like a ratio of about 2 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>I like a nice fast attack at 1ms.<\/p>\n<p>I leave the release time alone.<\/p>\n<p>Then I turn on the auto to on, this will calculate the release time based on the incoming signal.<\/p>\n<p>Then I usually add about 3dB of gain to make up for the 2 to 1 compression.<\/p>\n<p>I skip the expander, don&#8217;t need that for my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to the limiter, I turn this on.<\/p>\n<p>Again since I like to keep the peaks to a -6dB I set the hard limiter there. That is my ceiling and it works really nice.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the meter here with no limiter, vs. having the limiter in place, this really helps tons with mixing your voice with the music.<\/p>\n<p>I set the release to 50ms, however sometimes I go with sometime longer like 100ms if the limiter sounds like it is hitting to hard.<\/p>\n<p>Then I leave the soft clip off because I am no where close to the clipping.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing I do is bring in the music from Premiumbeat that matches the pace of my dialog.<\/p>\n<p>I normally start with the music at -18dB on the slider. This will depend on the music, it takes a few tries, I normally render out the video after listening it on my speaker and then headphones and then I listen to it on my Iphone and make minor changes from there to get the right mix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest post by Dave Dugdale from LearningDSLRVideo.com you can find more of his DSLR Reviews and tutorials on his site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[714,3,21,39,92],"tags":[178,52,113,5376],"class_list":["post-class-post-3340","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-premiere-2","post-class-category-royalty-free-music","post-class-category-tutorials","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-category-video-tutorials-2","post-class-tag-adobe-premiere-pro","post-class-tag-audio-post-production","post-class-tag-sound","post-class-tag-video-editing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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