Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, we run through some of the built-in effects of DaVinci Resolve's fairlight, demonstrate Adobe Podcast Enhance, an automatic audio optimization tool, and answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- AEA KU5A ribbon microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/OBUvsAG
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:40 Beginning of stream
02:53 Agenda
03:39 Adobe Podcast Enhance overview and demo
08:54 Sample recording signal chain
17:14 DaVinci Resolve free vs. studio versions
18:33 Fairlight FX overview
34:00 Are hardware tools being rendered obsolete by software?
34:40 More on the Fairlight FX
41:20 When and why: dialogue leveler vs. compressor/limiter
46:15 Hardware onboard processors vs. software post-production processors
47:41 How does the DPA 4017b do as a boom mic for dialogue recording?
48:05 Loudness normalize or process/edit first?
49:44 Order of operations for EQ, dynamics, effects, etc
52:31 Signal flow options (‘Order’) in the Fairlight mixer
54:37 Does YouTube apply further audio processing upon upload?
56:44 Fun Fairlight FX!
1:01:15 DPA 4017b as a 2-person interview mic
1:02:16 Radio signal/music being picked up by on-set boom mic
1:03:49 Wrap-up
1:04:00 End of stream
In this week's session, we run through some of the built-in effects of DaVinci Resolve's fairlight, demonstrate Adobe Podcast Enhance, an automatic audio optimization tool, and answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- AEA KU5A ribbon microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/OBUvsAG
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:40 Beginning of stream
02:53 Agenda
03:39 Adobe Podcast Enhance overview and demo
08:54 Sample recording signal chain
17:14 DaVinci Resolve free vs. studio versions
18:33 Fairlight FX overview
34:00 Are hardware tools being rendered obsolete by software?
34:40 More on the Fairlight FX
41:20 When and why: dialogue leveler vs. compressor/limiter
46:15 Hardware onboard processors vs. software post-production processors
47:41 How does the DPA 4017b do as a boom mic for dialogue recording?
48:05 Loudness normalize or process/edit first?
49:44 Order of operations for EQ, dynamics, effects, etc
52:31 Signal flow options (‘Order’) in the Fairlight mixer
54:37 Does YouTube apply further audio processing upon upload?
56:44 Fun Fairlight FX!
1:01:15 DPA 4017b as a 2-person interview mic
1:02:16 Radio signal/music being picked up by on-set boom mic
1:03:49 Wrap-up
1:04:00 End of stream
