Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this week's session, we'll have a look at iZotope's new voice enhancement plugin called VEA. This borrows technology from their RX, Ozone, and Nectar plugins to make cleaning and sweetening dialogue or spoken word audio quite simple. The main way this differs than many of the others we've seen recently introduced is that you still have control over how much noise reduction, EQ, and loudness work the plugin does. Many of the other recent competitors generally have one or even no controls to tune in how much you want the plugin to do. Then we 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, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/6lDtu69
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon geni.us/42KrX0
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixing board — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Sound Devices 888 field recorder/mixer with Dante — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/zAryW4J
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H geni.us/RcuXD3
- 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
- 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 2024, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:42 Beginning of stream
03:03 Agenda
03:47 Auphonic vs VEA
05:58 VEA for live audio
07:51 MixPre/DLZ routing
09:41 All about VEA
25:05 Important: human evaluation!
28:21 Mixdown workflows
30:25 Voice Isolate vs VEA
32:18 DJI Mic 2…
32:56 Use VEA to match booms & lavs
35:16 Resolve Studio vs VEA
35:44 Loudness normalization
37:27 Final Cut Pro vs audio
40:12 VEA for FX
41:28 Audiate vs VEA
42:28 FCP EQ
43:56 Boom/lav matching how-to
44:36 Hollyland Lark vs DJI Mic 2
45:38 Upcoming Mackie DLZ course…?
46:44 VEA de-reverb?
50:30 VEA Listen function
54:28 Essential plugins
57:46 Pincer & friend!
58:22 Soundparticles test?
1:01:24 Fairlight EVO?
1:03:54 Ecamm for podcasts/live
1:05:00 End of stream
In this week's session, we'll have a look at iZotope's new voice enhancement plugin called VEA. This borrows technology from their RX, Ozone, and Nectar plugins to make cleaning and sweetening dialogue or spoken word audio quite simple. The main way this differs than many of the others we've seen recently introduced is that you still have control over how much noise reduction, EQ, and loudness work the plugin does. Many of the other recent competitors generally have one or even no controls to tune in how much you want the plugin to do. Then we 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, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/6lDtu69
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon geni.us/42KrX0
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixing board — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Sound Devices 888 field recorder/mixer with Dante — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/zAryW4J
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H geni.us/RcuXD3
- 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
- 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 2024, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:42 Beginning of stream
03:03 Agenda
03:47 Auphonic vs VEA
05:58 VEA for live audio
07:51 MixPre/DLZ routing
09:41 All about VEA
25:05 Important: human evaluation!
28:21 Mixdown workflows
30:25 Voice Isolate vs VEA
32:18 DJI Mic 2…
32:56 Use VEA to match booms & lavs
35:16 Resolve Studio vs VEA
35:44 Loudness normalization
37:27 Final Cut Pro vs audio
40:12 VEA for FX
41:28 Audiate vs VEA
42:28 FCP EQ
43:56 Boom/lav matching how-to
44:36 Hollyland Lark vs DJI Mic 2
45:38 Upcoming Mackie DLZ course…?
46:44 VEA de-reverb?
50:30 VEA Listen function
54:28 Essential plugins
57:46 Pincer & friend!
58:22 Soundparticles test?
1:01:24 Fairlight EVO?
1:03:54 Ecamm for podcasts/live
1:05:00 End of stream
