Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, we cover the basics of isolators, transformers, and line splitters for use in sound. Then we cover your sound for video questions!
What Are Audio Transformers? Why Do They Sound So Good? — youtu.be/1n-lXFTuMfI
Thanks to BillC for the diagram of a transformer. This diagram is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License at gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html
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:
- Radial engineering JS3 microphone splitter/isolator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/yxClz
- Radial engineering Ice Cube IC-1 line isolator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/l8ByRg
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Epiphan Pearl Nano live stream encoder — B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/qXyXR5
- 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
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 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:47 Beginning of stream
03:05 Agenda and signal chain
05:40 Transformers in audio
17:53 Questions from the chat
37:33 Pre-submitted questions
43:28 More questions from the chat
1:12:00 Wrap-up
1:12:16 End of stream
In this week's session, we cover the basics of isolators, transformers, and line splitters for use in sound. Then we cover your sound for video questions!
What Are Audio Transformers? Why Do They Sound So Good? — youtu.be/1n-lXFTuMfI
Thanks to BillC for the diagram of a transformer. This diagram is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License at gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html
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:
- Radial engineering JS3 microphone splitter/isolator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/yxClz
- Radial engineering Ice Cube IC-1 line isolator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/l8ByRg
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Epiphan Pearl Nano live stream encoder — B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/qXyXR5
- 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
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 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:47 Beginning of stream
03:05 Agenda and signal chain
05:40 Transformers in audio
17:53 Questions from the chat
37:33 Pre-submitted questions
43:28 More questions from the chat
1:12:00 Wrap-up
1:12:16 End of stream
