How to remove plosives in Ableton Live 10 tutorial
Summary of 'How to remove plosives in Ableton Live 10 tutorial':
Intro section: what are plosives? And why do they happen?
Practical example of a fix: Working with high-pass filters
Tools used: Ableton Live 10, iZotope RX
Big takeaway? Invest in a pop filter to reduce the amounts of plosives in your audio recording!
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Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello. My name is Jairo Pineda, an audio engineer who helps out at Voice123. We'll be talking about common voice over audio recording problems and its possible fixes. A link to our full how to edit the voice overs piece on our voice over guide is found in the description below. Today, we're talking about plosives.
[00:00:30] Quick definition - what are plosives? Why do they happen? Plosives are sounds that hard consonants like P, T or K create when recorded. When pronouncing these types of hard consonants, we expel sudden bursts of air that are rich in low frequency information, and it could cause rumbles and annoying, low frequency sounds.
[00:00:49] If you have plosives after recording, here's some tips on how to remove them in post. We're going to use Ableton Live 10 tools to fix them. We're also going to show you how to fix plosives with [00:01:00] iZotope's RX tools. Let's dive into it. Here are two voice overs I recorded previously. One was recorded without a pop filter and one with. No preservatives, and sugar-free. No preservatives, and sugar-free. As you can see here, the one without the pop filter has air bursts when pronouncing the P, while the other one doesn't. We're going to work with the one that was not recorded with a pop filter. First, let's add an EQ and analyze the low frequency information. No preservatives, and sugar-free. There is a natural rumble in the voiceover. Let's apply a high pass filter around 90 here. No preservatives, and sugar-free, all the vitamins. No preservatives, and sugar free. It looks like this standard high-pass filter is working, but it could be better. Let's select the more aggressive high pass filter from the dropdown menu.
[00:01:54] We can dial back the frequency cutoff. No preservatives, and sugar-free. [00:02:00] No preservatives, and sugar-free. Nice. We can still go even further with this. Let's have the iZotope RX De-plosives plug-in and set the frequency limit to 100 Hertz.
[00:02:18] No preservatives, and sugar-free. Now let's compare the original audio. No preservatives and sugar-free. To the final product. No preservatives, and sugar-free. And there you have it. These are our tips on how to remove plosives in your recordings. Remember, investing time and resources in your pre-production and recording stages will improve your post-production experience. Comment down below if you have more tips and tricks to solve plosives, or if you have any additional questions. Be sure to check out our other videos in the series!