Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is a question and answer session for those enrolled over at School.LearnLightAndSound.com. Each week we hold a session where you can ask questions related to recording sound for video. You can sign up at the school to be notified of these sessions and submit your questions ahead of time.
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 SV33 studio vocal microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/jfIw
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Neumann U87 Ai microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/phYZH
- 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 C70 Camera - B&H geni.us/ABYB
- Canon RF 24-70 f/2.8L IS lens - B&H, Amazon geni.us/qwsEs
- TA3-M to XLR-F Adapter cable to feed microphones to C70 or Blackmagic Pocket cameras - B&H bhpho.to/3o2dTOS
- 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
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
Index:
00:00 Start
02:45 Beginning of stream
02:57 Agenda
03:55 Troubleshooting clipping from unknown sources
09:42 Getting rid of self-noise and hiss
16:06 How to read MixPre 3 meters
21:29 Gain staging with Sony cameras
24:37 Questions from the chat
1:08:32 Wrap-up
1:08:45 End of stream
This is a question and answer session for those enrolled over at School.LearnLightAndSound.com. Each week we hold a session where you can ask questions related to recording sound for video. You can sign up at the school to be notified of these sessions and submit your questions ahead of time.
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 SV33 studio vocal microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/jfIw
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Neumann U87 Ai microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/phYZH
- 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 C70 Camera - B&H geni.us/ABYB
- Canon RF 24-70 f/2.8L IS lens - B&H, Amazon geni.us/qwsEs
- TA3-M to XLR-F Adapter cable to feed microphones to C70 or Blackmagic Pocket cameras - B&H bhpho.to/3o2dTOS
- 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
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
Index:
00:00 Start
02:45 Beginning of stream
02:57 Agenda
03:55 Troubleshooting clipping from unknown sources
09:42 Getting rid of self-noise and hiss
16:06 How to read MixPre 3 meters
21:29 Gain staging with Sony cameras
24:37 Questions from the chat
1:08:32 Wrap-up
1:08:45 End of stream










