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Take 5: Preventing Plosives
Hosted by Chuck Peters
SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 102 RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 21, 2006
5 tips to help prevent those painful plosives so you can record powerful, pop-free soundtracks.
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Maximiliano Belli
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33 User Comments
Great work, guys. We came across this problem in our earlier times. It's great to learn new tips for better audio. Keep the tips coming. Regards, Ashley
This takes me back to my days at recording school. With the exception of the homemade option, this pretty much covered the first week in the studio. Engineers love to say "let's fix it in the mix." I prefer to get it right the first time, and spend the time in post enhancing the product, rather than fixing the problems. Excellent tips for saving time down the road.
With a couple of projects coming up I was most interested in a pre-emptive strike on problems. Again the quick fix hit the spot, thanks for several great suggestions.
I crafted my own pop filter after seeing this show! Thanks Chuck!!! And the tips on speaking into the mic, and smiling.....very nice!!!!
Simple and to the point - Thank you...
One request - Can you put the most recent post at the top versus the bottom?
I find these DJTV segments to be extremely well-produced, very clear, concise and informative. While I already had a pop filter and a wind sock....I never thought of the microphone position. But when you think about it, this is great advice and makes perfect sense. I definitely will watch my mic position when doing narrations/voice overs from now on. It limits high and low end voice processing which saves time. I feel DJTV is like having my own trainer in the world of high tech video production....a powerful resource! Keep the DJTV videos coming.
Great sugestions. I was not aware of the smile technique but it works well. Thanks for the pop filter home made idea. I didn't think about it. The presentation was well done. I look foward to more segments.Thanks
Great info, I knew about most of these except the talking across the mic instead of into, but I do use a pop up stopper, there relatively cheap I paid like $5.00 for mine for my studio mic. The smiling part was cool to, we learn this in Choir in school to enunciate the vowels properly. Good job! Ronnie Rokk, Rokk Productions
Great job on letting people know how to make their audio sound more professional! I love these little tips and tricks that you all have to share. It gives us the competitive edge in this buisness and we all grow when we share. Well enough of the "you see Timmy", I'm out like T.O. in practice.
Great Production. I loved the tips. We bought some screens from B and H for our Podcast we do at http://www.hauntednewjersey.com they where cheaper than making it ourselfs. But yet again my partner doesn't use his because he likes to pop his p's and talk louder than everyone else on his fancy mic hahahah great job guys keep up the great work.
I once had a singer tell me that the trick they often use is to point the microphone at your chin and not directly at your mouth. This might give the same effect of "talking over the mic" without the odd appearance.
I wonder why you emphasized NOT talking into the microphone in tip#1, yet on tips 3 and 4, you had the speaker talking directly into the microphone.
I've also noticed that on American Idol, the singers sing directly into the microphone with the microphone pointing at their space.
My other tip is to keep your distance from the microphone somewhat.
Instead of being one inch away, I try to keep 18" or so away. It helps with the "P's", breathing and other mouth sounds.
With the price of pop-proof pro products (alliteration supreme), don't even bother making your own home-grown filter... buy the pro device and rest assured your speech is scintillating!
Hartley G. Lesser
High Sierra Media Group
I actually wanted to respond to the intro and the What's New ending. The high tech Keying effects were awesome. Of course, including a female caught my attention. Sorry guys, you do great work, but some eye candy is also nice.
Thanks. This is proving to be an awesome resource. I'm a hobbiest morphing toward pro and I need every tip I can get.
BTW. Good business model. Quality content produces quality users and quality users need quality resources, and Digital Juice stands ready to supply them.
Always so much easier and faster to watch and listen to the "how to" of what work (and economical ways of accomplishment) Thanks DJ
Regards, Bob Lee/IDXi Group
As a person with a perpetual plosive problem, I learned these tips many years ago. However, it is still good to have a refresher course, and, of course, a little video for those who don't want to listen to in-house counsel.
Good tips. Some of them I knew already (like talking over instead of into the mic and using pop filters), but this is the first time I heard the "smile" tip. We just upgraded mics and plosives have been a problem because of the improved pick-up performance.
Also, that was some clever writing to get all those "P" sounds into the script and create a real-world demonstration.
I actually would have given this 4.5 stars, but there isn't a way to do that.
The only missed point was that I thought it could have been a bit better to go into the "Dollar Solution." I have heard many pros say this is as good as the very expensive solutions. Just stretch the nylons over the hoop and you have two layers that are very effective.
Still, overall, good stuff.
Great tips, but I would have liked to have heard the actual effects of each of these tips so I'm giving it only 3 stars. Sorry guys, with audio tips a clip is worth a thousand words :-)
So here is the sequel: 5 tips for fixing pops, plosives, and esses in post. 1) EQ it 2) de-ess it, 3) envelope it (volume envelopes) 4) Compress it 5) edit it (using phoneme-based editing of the dialog). I'm sure Jeff knows how to do all of these expertly.