Fairlight Page - DaVinci Resolve LIVE Training!

[Music] call me the Joker call me the fool when she calls I always [Music] oh my gotta start the morning off a Little Rock [Music] okay Megan are you writing songs for guys on epidemic sound now because I feel like if you wrote a song it would be loving you is like a train wreck waiting to happen that that could be that might be our theme song that that is correct yep that is me writing how's everybody doing out there today good to see you all here so we're doing something that I didn't think that I would do but what the heck let's do it um a lot of people have been um using DaVinci Resolve asking me questions um I've been doing the short series that's been literally shorts of tips one a day I really think that when you're learning a new software that if you can sit and you can um take just like you know like a 20 minutes in the morning sitting with your coffee and learn something that's one of the best ways to slowly learn something over time think about doing that five days a week Imagine where you'd be in a year if you learned one new little trick every morning and actually you know got to implement it so that's what I've been doing um how's our sound we sound good let us know if we sound good out there um or if we need to adjust anything um so yeah I wanted to go live and talk about some of these portions we've I'm hoping that you guys have watched some of the shorts if you've been watching any of the shorts series that I've been dropping I think this morning was the the tenth one maybe um give me a thumbs up in the chat if you've been if you've been watching the shorts tips and you think that they're they're helping you out at all um I'm looking for any advice on those I really am trying to keep them simplified for noobs because I think DaVinci Resolve in and of itself can be overwhelming it's got so many bells and whistles that um that it becomes really tough to to figure out how to just do you know get started and start using the software because it's just uh it's getting overwhelming you know a lot of us came from using things like filmora which was a lot simpler it wasn't so intricate it didn't have so many pages and options and features and now it's like we're all uh a lot of us after the the license debacle kind of jump ship and said well maybe we should start looking at um some software that maybe has some higher functionality and we dove in hard because Da Vinci has a great free version so yeah it looks like a lot of people liking the shorts cool I appreciate that shorts are very good thanks Mike um yeah I love the noob series cool I'm glad and they're gonna be they'll probably get a little more in depth or get a little you know they won't be so surface level as as we keep going but I'm really trying to create something where people can feel like they open up DaVinci Resolve and they look at it and it makes sense like it's not like I don't know what any of that does and I don't know what any of that does because that's how I felt when I first opened up DaVinci Resolve I'm like my gosh there's so many buttons I don't know what they all do and the more I'm using it the more I'm getting comfortable with different things that it does so um awesome awesome love that you guys like these that's great sweet so one I want to uh today one of the things I want to talk to you guys about is one of the other tabs is is the fair light tab I've done a lot of talking about the um edit page I should call them pages I keep calling them tabs that's how Noob I am I'm gonna get yelled at by The DaVinci Resolve police um the the fairlight page which is their audio page um that has a lot of great features in it and I when I was talking to a lot of creators they're like yeah I just kind of get you know turn my mic up and maybe a little Equalization and that's about it but there's so many options in the fairlight page and I get a lot of people asking me like how do I get a better mic sound and how do I get things sounding great and there's so much you can do with the fairlight page that I wanted to make sure that we uh that we've talked a little bit about it um and we have a great sponsor today really quickly wait a minute hit a thousand Subs on Saturday yesterday thank you Daniel for your continued awesomeness channel is that uh 1022 this morning way to go um that's my friend Trey guess what Corgi butt um with with uh his all Corgi Channel that's awesome pal uh I love that you've dialed into this new channel and it's just all about this Corgi life and and it's it's connecting with people it's fun so um super sweet man love it love it love to see if it went well and there's my friend uh Deborah hi Deborah thank you for the 20 Super Chat that's um that's fantastic I really appreciate that I want to um I do have to shout out today as a lot of you guys know we don't have like a da Vinci resolve sponsorship and all these shorts that I've been making they make no money uh so what we what we've been doing is working with different sponsors that I think integrate well with what we do uh in today's sponsor um is actually someone I really like it's epidemic sound and we're going to be using that was what the song I played on the intro coming in was actually one of epidemic sound sound songs they just have a great selection we're going to talk a little bit about them to show you some of the things using them in fairlight showing you how you can use some of those those audio mixes but do me a favor instead of super chatting today if any of you guys are interested uh who don't have an epidemic sound membership you can do things there's a link that's scrolling underneath the screen but I'll have Megan posted in the chat and it's in the description um do me a favor it helps me out if you guys go you can use that link to sign up for a free 30-day trial no commitment and you can check out all their music and use it in your videos and I also have a discount there that's um not a rockstar 50 that if you feel like actually purchasing a membership they do the monthlies on the monthly membership that'll give you 50 percent off the first three months so I think it comes out to like uh what like seven dollars and fifty cents a month with a discount so divide 30 days a month into 750 and it's it's pretty affordable to have awesome music so um we'll be talking about that more but uh I'd love it if you guys would at least uh go check out the link somewhere along the way sign yourself up uh use that link so that uh epidemic knows they did the right thing by coming to this Channel and working with us and helping support the kind of content we put on here um let me quickly scroll through here so um I'm gonna pull up this let me add this to stream and see how we do here okay I've got a new tool that I bought specifically let me turn off the on-air sign so I can get as much screen as possible I've got a new tool that I'm going to test out that should allow me one of the things I hate about DaVinci Resolve is the screen the UI the user interface is not only hard to read on a on your own monitor but especially when you're live streaming so I got this new tool and if I hit these buttons that should allow me to scroll all over this page and zoom away in and even draw on stuff Perfect all right life is good so I will be able to uh do some zooming in and be able to show you some stuff so hopefully this will be something that um you can follow along with fairly easily so let me ask you guys a question how many of you are using uh vocal effects processing on your audio if you're doing talking if you have any kind of speaking Parts in your your um videos on YouTube are you guys you guys understand things like Equalization and how to use compression and how to use limiters are these things that you guys are using just a thumbs up or thumbs down let me know if you guys are viewing a lot using a lot of audio processing to make your audio sound better or is it one of those things that you kind of go in there and kind of set the level maybe a little roll off the high or you know tweak the EQ a little bit and kind of good to go uh Doug says he use uses some EQ and some limiter and you know Doug's audio always sounds really good too um I think you're of you're a final cut um Pro guy right that's what you still use in Final Cut Pro um too complicated here's here's the one we hear a lot too comply complicated I do only do this one I do but very rudimentary yeah that's because it gets complicated sometimes normalize or change volume of too low typically not a little bit using audacity gotcha that's what I thought that's the responses I've been I've been seeing for a while no idea about it I get that a lot and I think a lot of people either use a different program to try to get their audio to sound better but the great thing about DaVinci Resolve is they bought fairlight used to be its own company it was a digital audio workstation so DaVinci Resolve buys it incorporates it into the software doesn't change the price and then they start now they have a full Digi digital audio workstation incorporated into the video editing software and uh it's just one of those things that I like about resolve I was like man they know how to do it they don't play around they're like let's find someone who does this well and let's just integrate it so for those of you who um who don't know yeah audacity yeah I hear you for those of you who um who don't know which page I'm talking about I'm going to take down some of my banners get me out of here um let me do this let me go here when you look at DaVinci Resolve at the very bottom you have these these little icons and they're called the pages and when usually when I open it up it opens up in this first page here let me see if I can draw you see that first one here um that's your media pool page that where you bring you can bring in media and organize it the second one is like the rough cut page and then you can get into the actual editing page where you do more detail that's where I spend right here is where I spend most of my time when I'm doing my edits the next one is um well you got always two over we got color Corrections and then we get over to fairlight um this is the fusion tab here that I will not talk about right now Fusion is another Beast that we will tackle at some point it is a uh it is Fusion is its own monstrosity so we will get to it but the this tab I'm talking about here so it's that music note down at the bottom that's the fairlight page and that's where you can start uh doing things with your audio tracks uh to really bring things up to another level and I'm gonna let me show you some of the things that you can do let's grab um for those of you who have who have followed around uh what the stuff I put up so far most of you should know how to basically import footage create some bins create uh bring in some audio if you need it things like that um but a lot of times what happens is when you're trying to um when you're trying to do more with that audio it's exactly like everyone said here we have a tendency to go I just kind of get the levels right and leave it alone and hope it's okay but let me do this um I'm gonna create a bin here I'll put a bin up there and we'll call that we'll call that an audio bin for now and I'll open up that bin and I'm going to import some some audio let's see what should we bring in here's one right here um um there's some music in this one okay so this is oh this is fun I've got all the stems here so these are the tracks if you see I just brought in in the upper left in the audio tab here I brought in a bunch of stems and if you wonder what stems are on when you're using when you're using any of epidemic sounds music they not only give you the full mix of the song but they give you the pieces like the drum track the Bass track the vocal track like the guitars or maybe the synthesizers or keyboards and they break it down so you can do a lot of stuff rather than just put a song put it underneath and let it play so right here you're actually looking at what is um the different components of that one here let me see if I can draw here so this one here is the that's the full mix and then I think it's a bass drums maybe that one's drums I'll bring them in we'll take a listen but these are the different pieces of that um of that song so let's bring them in one at a time so if you're using epidemic sound let's say and you're using this could be anything it could be audio that's a vocal or but in this case we'll use music I'm going to bring each track in I'm going to bring them down and put them in their own track one at a time we'll start that one let's go this one that one's probably drums it looks like a drum track um so there's the four tracks and I'm gonna line them all up so they start right at the beginning that's another cool thing if you just make sure they're all lined up in epidemics uh sound the way they do it then you've got basically the entire song So if I hit play let me know if you guys can hear this Megan let me know if you can hear this is that coming through yep you can hear it inside of uh can you guys all hear that okay inside a stream yard um good as long as you can hear it in the live stream I'm happy so those are all the different tracks let me guess I can zoom down in here a little bit I'll get used to this new tool so there's all your different tracks right and I've talked a little bit about um in the shorts I've been doing about what some of the icons in each track does like the lock um audio tracks are a little bit different um than the video tracks I was talking about how the video tracks have a lock feature on each you see you don't need my face blocking that do you let me see if I can unblock here uh give me one second let me close that out and come back over here and give you this screen there we go okay so as I was saying um in the in the actual audio tracks what you're going to see is the ability to lock um this ability to auto set the auto cut um that's the Auto Select when you're doing cutting and things this is a solo button and that's a mute button so basically you know you can lock the track you can set it so it's always selected for whatever might be happening the S button is Solo solo means you're just going to hear just that one track and then the M button is mute which means you mute the track so that you don't hear it so pretty simple instructions on this side that stuff I think most people understand how to use and when you are using this stuff and you play a song you can hear this different tracks here if I pull this all the way back to the beginning you'll see that um there's a bunch of stuff going on here if I solo this first track now you're just gonna hear just that bass right here's just the bass and if I need it then it'll go away now I could solo the drum track and you'll hear just the drums on that section of the song [Music] again this is one of the reasons I really like epidemic sound is because you can do that because you can create these you can uh you know separate do drums do just the bass just the vocal whatever it might be but what's what I want to talk about today is what's going on uh they're saying it's a little bit low uh volume all right well we can uh we can pump it up a bit now my the volume of the of the song track okay um for the for today for the for the sake of today we're mostly going to be going through features I'll try to get some of the the volume balanced out too while we do this um one of the things one of the things I want to show you though is really over in the fairlight type so right now I'm in the edit page okay so if we look here and I go to the bottom right I'm still in this edit page that's that third tab from the bottom that you can see right there see how I'm right here this this tab so I'm over in that that media edit page that's where I'm that's the edit page where I'm usually cutting putting my footage in doing tweaking adding text that's where I've been living most of the time but if I go over to here if I go over to that if I have audio tracks in and I go over to the fairlight page that one's a lot of fun that does a lot of cool things let me click on that and show you now just looking at this in general can be confusing so let's start by by just simplifying what it is you guys are looking at all right um basically right here what you're looking at in the middle all of this these are all just your tracks right the same track audio track one audio track two three four and then there's a bus track so let's start right there and simplify some of you guys do anyone here know what a bus track is um that's one of those things that I come from a music background so I'm kind of used to some of these terminologies in here but basically um think of a bus as it's almost like your master volume but there's a reason they call it a bus so like basically all of those tracks that you have in your project the drums your this one's got drums and bass and all these other things they're all on individual tracks and they're all being sent to this one master fader that if I pull up that Master fader up and down it will control it'll can take the whole volume up and down but the reason they call it a bus instead of a master is you can create several different buses in groups so that you could do things like okay I'm gonna take all the tracks where I'm speaking and assign them to one bus and then I'm going to take all the tracks where there's music and I'm going to sign that to one bus and then I'm going to take all the tracks that has maybe sound effects I'm going to assign that to one bus and what it allows you to do is take those groups inside of your project and instead of bringing each fader up and down one at a time you've got them grouped so you can go oh this bus controls all of my my vocal tracks that I that I was talking in oh this one controls all if I use three or four different songs then I've got the levels of each set where I want but then as I'm listening overall the music seems a little loud you can bring the overall music from every track that's in that grouping or that bus and bring them down so that's really what you what you're looking at when you see let me pull that back up so you can see it when you see the tracks and then you see the bus which is over here you'll see that not only here right you'll see it right here as a bus but you'll also see it over on the right if you go to the right this is where all our tracks are now you have to kind of expand this this right section is your mixer and I can grab it and I can stretch it out so you can see all the tracks that's your mixer your mixer is actually turned on from the upper right if you go up here there's a mixer tab a meters tab a metadata meta data tab an inspector so for any reason you don't see that um mixer going on in the lower right that's because you need to click it in the upper right that's what turns those those little corners on and in each one of these tracks here is where you have all these cool things that you can you can really take your audio to the next level so let me show you what some of those things are and if any of this confuses anybody along the way or I'm going if I'm going too fast just yell at me and we'll we'll do our best to I'll try to make it as simple as possible I think sometimes what happens is with complex ideas um it takes a little time to kind of really get a handle on them but I always feel like audio is one of those things that for me has always made sense because it's very linear it's like oh this is something of sound comes out of your mouth it goes into a microphone it goes through a cable and it comes out you know goes wherever I want it to go and using audio inside of your video editing software is not that much different you got the track in there that represents your voice and you can put things in the signal path to make it sound a little better like adding an EQ you can put things like a compressor or a limiter which would stop it from peaking too much and can also sometimes if your voice gets too quiet at some parts it'll bring those quiet Parts up and make them a little bit louder so that it it's um it's not normalizing sometimes people you that normalize where they hit this generic button and it just flattens everything to one weird level I hate that normalized feature like an audacity because it doesn't do anything subtle it just cranks things up to a weird normalized level and doesn't and it doesn't it's harsh it's just like a giant it's like a giant um volume knob that cranks everything up but we're gonna do some more subtle stuff here inside of um we're gonna do inside a fairly uh fairlight so as you're looking like right here as you can see each one of these tracks has a fader right track one track two track three track four that's our music right our bass drums I think there was synthesizer and one other instrument in there and then our bus track all the way to the right that's like our master and as you can see above it there's all these other options that might make you go what the heck is all of this like Daniel I don't even wanna there's too many lines I don't know what they do it's all over the place so let's talk about this for a second um some of the stuff we want to think about at learning is what these do every think about this every one of these channels these strips is is identical so really all you have to do is learn what one track does and then the rest of the tracks you see they're just identical tracks with something else on it maybe one has music on it maybe one has your voice on it maybe you were talking and someone else was talking to like you were doing an interview so maybe they have their track where they were talking in your track where you were talking but they're all treated the same they all once you learn how to deal with one then it's just a matter of they just stack them together based on how many audio tracks you have that's why a lot of times in those giant recording studios you'll see those big mixing boards with also all those knobs and faders and you're like wow man those must take forever to learn that and the reality is they're all identical it's like you see a huge you know 32 64 track board and they're all just individuals like this that just keep repeating themselves so once you know what one track does does then it's just a matter of well what's coming in with each track what sound is on each track so up at the top I want to talk to you about some of these options um some real simple stuff I'm going to start from the bottom up right so here's audio track one it's just telling me there it is it's audio track one it's telling me right above it that it's being sent to bus one so that means this track is going to that bus one that's over here in the corner that sort of master volume so now we know where it's grouped to this right above it this spot right here is the pan they call that the pan and panning really means um kind of like balance if you've ever been in your car and setting up your radio you can get the sound to go to the left more or to the right more or you can get it to go to the front speakers more or if you have speakers in the back of your car you can send it to the back more that's exactly what this pan feature does so when you're trying to figure out maybe in your video mix you're trying to get something to sound let me click it when you click it you can see that it immediately pops up a pop-up window Dead Center here let me see if I can get it and you can see this is the pan the pan feature right let me get myself out of here I gotta get my hairy face out of the image okay so here's the pan and basically what you're looking at is at the top is your on off switch um this is controls your audio if you wanted to go more to the left speaker or more to the right speaker it it does have a front to back you can do this 360 audio and that's really more designed for if you have quadraphonic sound or you're using a um like a 7.1 or a 5.1 you know depending on if you're using Dolby Digital where you know if you're doing a movie mix where you go like okay this is going to be in the front speaker you know in the front corner left and that one's in the right rear back and it's all pretty simple they've got a lot of knobs to do but what's kind of interesting here you can ignore the knobs and they have like a button but right in the middle you can actually grab that little gray button and move it in this in the field and if you look all the knobs are moving you can go okay that's let you know that's Center that's left that's right that's front that's back and you can go oh where do I want this sound to be maybe this was the sound of a bird that I was mixing into my video and I wanted to be you know up and off to the left you put that up there and it sets it there nice and easy so that first option that we were looking at here now remember whatever you do if whenever you pull up a feature that upper left corner here you have to make sure that it's turned on if you don't turn it on the effect won't work so make sure you always have that button clicked to the right and it's red but that's what that first feature does on your track it just moves it left right forward back in your spectrum okay and then to get rid of that you can just X out now above that above that pan over here and what's cool is you see it shows me right here where it's left can you see that so I moved it up and to the left and if you see this little square it's like that blue dot says yeah you took the sound and you moved it up you uh let me see if I can do that a little it's neater so you can see it you took the sound from from the center in the front and you moved it off to the left here and that's why the blue dot is now over there and the other tracks are all still centered so it's got some cool little features you like you might seasonal what's all the graphs and the dots the green represents these greens left and right represent forward and backward like rear speakers front speakers so I pulled this a little bit back this way and that's why these green dots are a little bit back and these other ones on the other tracks are all the way forward so that's just a really cool um a really cool uh panning and moving technique that most of you guys and gals will probably not use that much other than saying sometimes you might want to have something over in the left or something over in the right like sometimes it's cool to do like effects where you have like a car horn over to the left or something in one of your videos or something happening in the right makes a little more stereo spread to it but for most vocal tracks you're going to keep them you know dead center and let the thing fly uh now let me go back and let me see is there is there a way to rename the track so I know it is great question great question here's how you can do that um let me go you can do it in two places you could either do it where it says wherever it says the name of the track Audio One audio two you could do it there or you could do it back over here on the track itself where it says Audio One Audio Two the way to rename the track is just to click on those spots and you'll see that it highlights it see how that gets highlighted right now and then you can just um you can just type in whatever you want you just say okay it says vocal you go okay well there's my you know there's my vocal track if that's if that's what it was right so now it says vocal up here um instead of uh instead of audio one so that's a really great thing um why I just name a Bass track vocal don't ask me I should have called it Bass absolutely you can rename them right where it's whatever it's called now you can rename it to whatever you want click on it it'll highlight type in a new name um now when we're looking at those individual tracks again over on the right so you saw that this was just the pan right that's what pan means left and right forward back where do you want where in the speakers is is that sound gonna go um I'm going to jump right here to the EQ this is your EQ or your Equalization the reason this line is flat right now is because none of these tracks have any EQ changed on any one of them I didn't do anything to any of the EQ but this is a really important place to understand uh how to change or improve things like your your recorded vocal if you're speaking if you click on that blue line on any track number now if you look any one of these tracks that I'm clicking on if you look on the right as I click on them they get highlighted right you can see they're all highlighting track one track two track three track four so if I'm on track one and I say um maybe Linda let's try track two just to be crazy we'll switch over to track two and we'll say okay maybe track two what is that the drums I think that was the drum track let me uh see if I can just solo it and play it a little bit I think it's a drum track [Music] it's a drum track so if I said you know maybe I want to change the EQ of that drum track a bit once again anything you see in that track above the fader the fader is what controls the volume up and down that little white thing on the bottom right here where I go up and down see me sliding that on the lower right that's controlling the volume of that track and then above it we saw the pan and then that little line where it says EQ to the left if you click on that flat Blue Line it'll open up this Equalization now this is a little bit tricky okay I don't know how many of you are used to using either parametric or graphic equalizers I think graphic equalizers are things that we've seen a bunch of times it's a bunch of those little fader little faders that you've seen it'd be like you know 12 or 20 or 40 bands and you can move up each one down or we've seen the kind of EQ that you would see on like your car where it just says bass treble or mid and you can turn the bass up turn the bass down turn the treble up turn the treble down or maybe sometimes you get mid-range too and you can control the mid well this is a this is a parametric EQ and they're a little tricky to understand so I'm going to go over this quickly and let me know if this makes sense to you guys basically what a parametric EQ does is it looks at the entire frequency spectrum from the lowest lows which are over here right and then go straight across to the highest highs which are over here right so the super highs on the right that's your sibilance your your super high crispy high frequencies and then you're really low sub those are way down here those big low booming notes are all the way to the left and then it just works across like a spectrum right that you got the lows to the mid lows to the mids to the mid highs to the highs simple as that think about left to right low to high that's all that is and on a parametric EQ what they do is they give you the ability to put points along that Spectrum see how that's there's like these little blue dots here in their number that says two three four five they're points in that spectrum that you can decide to open up them you know raise a section or lower a section in that frequency spectrum so for example let's say on this one I wanted to raise the lows I would grab this isn't band number two if you look closely you'll see right here it says band number two and it's active you can see that it's orange this one right now is currently inactive because it's in Gray but that's orange so that means that's turned on and that's active and that band number two is actually this number two dot right up here so if we say okay that's band number two it's the lower frequencies it's even says if you look in closely it's been assigned right here it's like let's make that the lows that's mid lows that's mid highs and that's high so you could actually change um which band you want that to be this this this this they're all identical it's just you deciding where in that Spectrum you want it to represent is it the lows the highs but they can they they start off left to right so that number two band that I was pointing at I could grab that left click on that too and move it around and see how it raises up the lows and then lowers the lows it's making this curve this is how a parametric EQ um works is um it's going to work in curves instead of just bringing one frequency up it sort of softly raises up a certain section of those frequencies and the section is defined by this little bugger right here see that little drop down menu you can decide what that curve looks like you can say you can see there's four four options right here right see those different options and you can decide how you want that curve to work now where it's currently set let me see if I can move some of these out of the ways and show you I'll boost that that two up and you can see what it's doing to the curve right there see how it's changing it see the curve it's creating now I can change that and say well I want I just want that to take a a very thin narrow low frequency out and I can change the way it acts just from that drop down menu that's all I did was change that menu right here and the image that looks like a bird right it almost looks like a drawing of a seagull like that and that's exactly what it does all it does is say oh you just want to find a very narrow frequency and pull it out like maybe there was one weird low that was making a weird honking sound in your vocal that's where you could go oh okay I just want to take that out and you can either use the the knob that's on that's moving around or you can actually grab the number two there and move it around that way just left click and hold and it'll move it right in the Spectrum I I do that a ton of times just clicking holding and moving them around is there a way to listen in real time yeah can actually show you some of these in a second let me show you what these let me do this let me show you what these things are and kind of explain them real quickly and then we'll do it with one of the tracks playing and you'll be able to hear some of the things that are going on because I don't want to just move and you'll go I don't understand what it is you're moving and why it's doing that look at me getting big over here hold on a second uh let me do this let me do this let me go back over here so that's all this is each one of these is a band if I go to band three I can turn this other band on and off if you see I'm just clicking on that now the band number three I clicked on it and that turned it off because it's in Gray if I were to click on it again it would turn it back on and that three shows up up here and you can see I'm raising based on you know that's going to raise the low mids this one's going to raise the mid highs and then these are your super highs right that's your way up highs so if you notice this starts with uh this one all the way to the right off this is off and it also starts with the one all the way to the left off these are both off these are really important ones that I think you guys should get to know get to understand these are what they're going to call your low pass and high pass filters technical terms all they really what's weird is the low pass filter is what controls the highs and the high pass filter is what controls the lows the reason for that is they'll call it the low pass filter meaning it only allows low sounds to pass through and then the high pass filter will only allow higher sounds to frequencies to pass through so they feel like they're the opposite of what they are but what they're really good at let me show you on screen what they're really good at is taking sounds that may be like a little too muddy on the bottom let me reset this whole thing it's a reset button right up here if you see here if you ever like want to start from scratch that's a reset button if you click it everything goes right back to reset he's like yeah not confusing at all so let me click on this one right here I'm going to start with this band this one that says band one when I turn that on that is our high pass filter it's going to set this up so that when I turn it on it is like a wave that comes across and the more I pull it to the right it's removing all of those lows it's only letting these highs all of these highs right here go through all of that blue is what's been removed for frequencies so it's like taking the base on your audio and turning it way down and it's only letting the highs go through now the opposite one of that is the low pass filter let me pull this one back and that's the one that's over here all the way to the right see this band six so let's turn that one on and you'll see it does the exact opposite this one is great for if you've ever had um a vocal that you were working on and whenever you said like S's and T's they were really harsh they were like you know sometimes I hear like news anchors will do that where like um especially with um some female voices because they tend to have higher registers it'll be really like harsh and like hit you with like really hard S's and really hard keys if you use those highs and low pass filters um that's a great way to like roll off some of those highs that are a little bit abrasive or if something sounds murky like it's this voice sound a little morpey like that you can take some of that low out by using the high pass filter and just letting some of the highs come through so that's a really good one that I think that you should understand real simple EQ your human voice doesn't even occupy a lot of these lower frequencies so sometimes when you're out and you're filming and you get like wind noise you ever like film and you get like the wind starts kicking up and your whole mic is like grumbling that high pass filter is a great one this one here that I'm using on the bottom end what I'm doing is that's where that Grumble happens most of those wind grumbling noises all happen down in here so if you put a filter on it and only let more of the highs go through and not so much of those super lows that really your voice doesn't occupy those really low grumbly um frequencies anyway your vocal Can it can take a lot of that wind noise that you'll get sometimes in your microphone so learning just playing with these eqs understanding that all we're really looking at here is low low mid mid mid high and then over to the high so it's just from left to right low frequencies to high frequencies um to remove fan noise I can drop the frequency that's how I'm hearing it you you can if you find there's like one annoying frequency sometimes there's some background noise you can try to locate that frequency and see if you could just pull it out a lot of times that's what's what really is good when you use that specific um that um what that singular pass one see what I've got on right here the one that looks like it almost looks like a how I would draw a seagull if you do that one that's really great for if you had everything else reset you said everything sounds fine but there's this one fan noise or something you could literally set one of your frequencies to one of those narrow band filters and then just move it go left and right and go can I is this helping oh right there right there is where when I leave it there it gets better the audio gets better it removes that noise and that's a great way to find one frequency in your audio and just take it out and go oh it was just a little fan or a thing that was had a weird high pitch keep in mind it's going to take that frequency out of your voice too but usually if you can do a very narrow band it's you don't it's not really abrasive it's not like you're taking scooping a large section out just a narrow band that might have been a problem frequency good question so let me do this I'm going to turn this off let me play Let Me solo the drum track let me go back to the beginning and I'm gonna try to shut up and see if you guys can hear what happens when I use uh you play with the EQ on like the bit the drum track hear how the bass went away all the bottoms gone now the drums are gone completely now if I let that low end back in [Music] now if I were to do the same thing with the hot with the low pass filter and pull out some of the highs [Music] can you hear what that's doing [Music] so it's just a really simple it's just a really simple EQ setup where you're using a very different forms of Curves to go rolling off some of the highs rolling off some of the lows maybe going into the middle and maybe you need to open up the middle and bring some of those frequencies up in the middle or maybe it's a little too boxy and throaty and you're going to pull some of those mids down if you want some of that smoother Rich radial voice just scoop the mids out a little bit and a lot of times it'll take things like a harsh um like a phone if you sometimes your phone will get a very harsh microphone sound to it it's a little abrasive scoop some of the mids out and find those frequencies and that's really the EQ system here parametric learning to sweep them I'm learning to play with it a bit it is adjustable so you know I won't go super deep into it but play with that play with that EQ a bit because you're going to find that there's things that you can do with the knobs underneath like Inc like change how wide the spectrum is in this case let me do here let me turn on this one let me pull up number three can you see how I've just pulled up number three right there that frequency that frequency I've now pulled way up like this and see how it's pre-designed it's saying well it's starting to go up here it's going to the peak of the frequency where the three is at and it's rolling back down this way well you can control that width with the knobs underneath they call that the Q factor so if I go right down here on track number three that Q factor I can change how narrow or broad that see see what's going on up above it I can go broader or I can go narrow maybe it's just I need a slightly not suit I want to just bring up one frequency kind of narrow or maybe the whole mids need to come up overall I can do more of a soft rainbowy pillowy bring up oh it just brings everything up nice and smooth so those cues underneath they're literally called Q factor with a Q if you can see those um that's what that's doing right here this Q factor is controlling how much of that um how much of that spread of the frequencies is a little is it wide or narrow and just play around with that a bit because I think you're going to find if you just put your vocal in and start um just you know testing it out you're gonna find that oh I have a lot of control over the sound um can you apply these changes to just one clip of a track like if I edited my video and I noticed there's something wrong with the sound in just one part yeah there's a lot of ways to do that um Amy the easiest way to do it is without having to keyframe anything what you could do is literally cut those sections let's say um let's say there was one section one thing I should point to see how narrow everything all these tracks are in the middle all those thin green bands in the upper um there's two ways to do it but I'll show you in the upper right right here can you see there's some faders here there's some sliders those sliders allow you to get a little more dialed into your audio tracks um let me show you how they work the first one you'll see is the height if I go left and right you see how it makes those taller and now you can really see the waveforms and you can see all those individual beats and hits so that's one way you can find you can start looking more closely and the one to the right of it which is right here so that was the first fader and it has little arrows like this is height up and down on obviously right here you can see it's got like a left and right and it does exactly what you'd think it stretches it out right oh I want to get super fine you can get way in you can get super far in down to like tiny little degrees of notes which is great if you're trying to cut your vocal like you're trying to and put two pieces together and you find like a little click or a noise a lot of times what I'll do is I'll locate it by going super zoomed in and go it's just that little spot right there now what you could do is like let's say can you see let's see let me show you right see this spot let's say right here whatever was going on in the song let's say that was an audio track that might have been a vocal or something and maybe there was something right there where you needed that part of the audio but there was a weird frequency in it that was making your nuts instead of keyframing what you could physically do is you could go in here and you could select that track you can actually select both tracks and you can slice them which is control B go to the other side of it right and then select those tracks again and then control B and now there's now they're cut separate see I've got them here so now what you could do is take those ones and do an independent EQ of it you could either add a track one way to do this would be you can EQ them individually this I don't want to get too technical you can EQ them individually let me go back I've just gone back to the to the um edit page so this is where we usually work that edit page where everything's happening our video and our audio if you click on that so you can see that I have that slice I made is obviously now visible here that was the slice I just made right there that little chunk so I could now go okay I want to do something with that and fix it you can select that in the edit page and up in the upper right in the inspector that's up here if you look there is if you scroll down it's got its own built-in EQ section let me go up here for that for that little snippet I've got an EQ I can go four bands and that's a great place to just grab if there's a little thing you don't even need to go to fairlight you could do that right in your and your edit page separate that little clip cut it free and go right here that's got a little problem I'm just gonna add a little bit of EQ for that one section turn the EQ on modify it and then you're done you could also keyframe it so it does it really quickly but for that one little noise in one little section that's where I would probably do that Amy right here in the um do the do the in the inspector of the of the edit page um when you're back over here in the fairlight page it really is like a deeper dive into all of this stuff this is where you get super super um into all the you know kinds of audio controls where you can really take your audio to the next level um but yeah great question and notice the EQ remember I just was playing around I put an EQ on there what's interesting is if you look over to the right on the mixing sections you see all these weird lines you're like what do they mean well remember this over here was where I had moved the pan of track one I pushed it over to the left so that blue dots over there now we just started working on track two and look at that see that little design it's actually showing me the EQ curve that I've dialed in using that parametric EQ right it's saying oh you dropped you've got it boosted up in the middle a little bit you've got a frequency drop right here so all those little bells and whistles you're seeing it's just showing you what you did right there that's the representation of the EQ curve that you put on that track and then if I reset it it would go back to a flat line again so those are the basics right there of how to do your pan how to do your EQ but above that is another one I want you guys to all really start thinking about above that section you'll see this Dynamics can you see right here it says Dynamics and it's got all these weird sort of diagonal lines this is a really important thing that I think all of you will um you'll dig it does some cool stuff this is like before when I was telling you that we have the ability to add things like compression limiter noise Gates and I know some of these words might be sounding like well I have no idea what you're talking about Daniel but let me show you some real basic stuff um let's just pick a track here uh um doesn't matter any track what um we'll do the uh we'll solo this first track here and I'm going to click on right over here if you see I'm going to click on this Dynamics box right here that's what we're using in track one above the where the pan is above where the EQ is then Dynamics let's click that and watch what happens this opens up and this is your Dynamics um box it has a few different options here these are actually three different effects in one and that's really cool let me get my fat face out of the out of the uh screen so you can see what's going on here there we go let me build this okay so what you're going to see here is obviously make sure it's on either the whole thing is on or it's off the very first one right here is your expander or your gate as I scribble over it you can't read it um what a gate or expander does is it helps cut noise that might be going on in between words like if you're talking and there's a background noise happening you can set up an expander or a gate that basically hushes down that track in between when you're talking or when things are being said can I copy one track setting apply to another yes you can you absolutely can but let me hold on one second before I get too deep into that yes you absolutely can um so right here what you want to do that's your expander that's where you can actually quiet down noise in between takes like if you happen to be um you know you have like some like a little fan noise or something going on and every time you stop talking you can hear it you can use a gate or an expander that'll quiet that thing down in between words this right here the one next to it is your compressor and what that is is that thing I told you about where sometimes you'll be talking in either your quiet parts are too quiet or your loud Parts get a little too loud it takes the overall thing and squashes it down to get the lows the quiet Parts a little louder and the louder Parts a little quieter to the right of that is your third one and it's a lot like a compressor but it's called a limiter and it actually is another form of a compressor and what a limiter does is it actually stops things from peaking Beyond a certain level so think about um like if you if you had something that you know was the mix is going great but every now and then you see it going into the red too much and it's peaking you can put a limiter and go I like the way everything sounds it's just there's some spots where it's peaking and I what do I got to do turn the volume down at that point you can use a limiter and every time it wants to peek it'll squash it down it's like an automatic um like top end adjuster that'll go I'm only going to let you get so loud and then we'll squash it down so it won't let it get past a certain volume so that expander gate really great for quieting things down in between like denoising some of your stuff and if there's a little background noise going on it'll help in between words and things like that it'll pull it out um the compressor is what's going to squash top and bottom together and get you more of rich full Center sound I love using that sometimes a compressor like on a soft voice or someone you know who's talk I always talk so loud but if someone's talking kind of quiet and then they get louder and then they kind of quiet down again that compressor can stop it from feeling like you're constantly riding the the volume knob on their voice it kind of Smooths everything out and then the the limiter is the very top just won't let it go past a certain spot so let me see if we can actually put this on one of the tracks and maybe you can hear it in action um let me see can I turn the volume up I'll try to turn the sound settings up here just a little bit um I'm pretty maxed out let me see um so here's a we're playing a track let me see what we can do which track we're playing uh let me pull this down for a second go back to the beginning uh and then we'll apply some and you just I'll just quickly show you how what it looks like so you can see it going so for playing a track let's saw which one are we yeah that's the it looks like we've got let's just do drop let's do drums alone uh play that so this green line you see nothing's being applied right now I don't have anything on now if I turn on let's say the compressor you'll see this vertical Blue Line come in right here and that's telling you where it's compressing at which point the threshold if I want to bring that threshold down it's it's going to start compressing from a lower point in these in the volume Spectrum so if I'm just compressing a little at the top I'll turn the threshold up and if I want to compress a lot I'll pull it you know I'll set the threshold lower and then you can do ratio how much compression it's going to get foreign [Music] level it's kind of control it's squashing some of those sounds now the limiter is going to really really squash the top down it usually makes things sound very squashed and sometimes fat sometimes that's a good sound [Music] so you can control things that aren't going to Peak you can see it's a lot it's really controlling the top end this fader right here if you can see it this one right here sometimes when you add some compression and limiting to try to get that that sound really squashed and sounding good so that's smooth and easy what happens is it starts getting quieter like oh my gosh I I added this effect but then the overall track got quieter well that little may they call it the makeup gain if it gets too quiet you can raise that up and it'll bring the volume of that track back up again for you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] anyway so that's all you're really doing there is adding some you can add expander gate compressor limiter play with these gate and expander the difference between the two of those is pretty much a gate is a very open and closed one like if you want the if you want the mic to basically be shut off if the if there's not like something being spoken into the mic like if it just gets below a certain um level it'll automatically get quiet like in between words that gate is a very like open and close whereas the expander is a little smoother it sort of removes it's a smoother noise removal tool but it's a good one for if you do have some background noise and things going on if you're in a room that might have air conditioning and stuff try applying the expander in there and it can actually help get rid of some of that be careful if you're in a room that has a lot of noise when you start adding things like the compressor the reason being is if you've got very quiet fan noise in the background and you compress your vocal guess what it's going to do to that quiet fan noise it's going to bring it up it's going to make The Quiet Things louder so learning how to use these properly making sure that when you record your audio and your vocal that they really work well together like you've really got a quality audio that you've recorded but then when you bring it in here you can really tweak a little EQ a little compression on it to get it to sit a little fatter so that the quiet parts are a little louder the loud parts are pushed down a little bit so it's really rich and full and that's how you end up getting like that that really rich radial voice that's really smooth and round from getting that right amount of EQ and compression um am I missing any questions uh Dimitri 10 super chat perfect timing for the stream resolve update uh 18.5 just came out and added a whole bunch of features including the fairlight page I haven't I haven't update I have to check it out thanks Dimitri for the Super Chat and for the tip yeah they've been doing great at updating um I used to love filmora for the fact that they did update a lot um but a lot of it was updating stuff to fix the problems that it had whereas it seems like resolve is doing a great job of um the things work great and then they're updating uh and adding new features in Daily so I'm loving it so far are you guys liking it I haven't even had a chance to really ask you guys what are you guys thinking about resolve for anyone who's just started out with resolve you know like where did you come from what software were you using I know a lot of people in here had used filmora but what are you thinking about resolve are you liking it um do you feel like it's it's it's too hard to learn do you feel like it's uh it's just um it's too much of a hurdle it does have pretty high system resource demand so you do have to have a pretty good computer to run it Iggy of course who's a PC guy builds great computers I love resolve it's amazing yeah I agree with you man it's really really strong I've been liking just the amount of things that you can do in a given session this like I mean I liked filmora but it was like what what could you do with the audio you could EQ it a little let you send it left and right you know they maybe had a couple effects we'll talk about effects in here this is going to blow your mind but I mean just the built-in stuff in resolve no I have the studio version so I'm I paid for the license so it has a few more features in certain areas but almost all of these features are going to be there for you in the free version which is just crazy just crazy uh Javier Jones says uh Javier says I love resolve you can really grow out the tool I agree I think it's worth the investment of learning it because once you learn it you don't need to upgrade to anything down the line it's it's a great software that can roll you can roll with you know it's a professional grade tool it's got the best color correction in the industry so I think just the things that it has is if you learn it you're never going to have to learn something else right you're not going to have to come back and and go well now I need to learn something else because it couldn't keep up um from Adobe many products to the new window Da Vinci I've never I never have to leave the app yeah I tell you isn't that great it's like it's just um Adobe did have a lot of Integrations where when you're in DaVinci Resolve it's like they they got a digital audio workstation fairlight built right in you just click another page boom you're right in there everything is it's really wonderful the way they put it together um I use filmora for a lot of years but two years ago I quit Fillmore for Da Vinci and it was worth it so two years you've been doing it so you're probably pretty handy at it now right but I I think like this is one of those ones you can constantly keep learning um it's just one of those things that it's got so many features that it's um that it's it's like there's always something new to that some new thing that you can explore and really figure out Vegas was pretty easy well that was the question is DaVinci harder than Vegas Pro yeah I don't I I I don't like using the word harder it's got a steeper learning curve because it does more there's more functionality and whenever something can do more there's more pieces of the puzzle and everything I've been trying to do here hopefully to start off is really just get people to open things up find where things are play around understand what some of the knobs are I'm not looking to go super deep and show you every specific example of things I really just want you to get in there and go well okay well where when I want to work on audio how do I do that okay go over to the fairlight page there's your audio see those little sliders on the right that's where you can start playing around with your EQ and you can put on some effects that's the kind of stuff that I think is super important to understanding how to make you know great videos because most of us most of us who make videos for YouTube you know it's pretty simple editing it's not like we need we're not making you know most of us aren't making Marvel movies you know we're not making something that's so over the top that we need okay I need to have you know three superheroes smash through out of the sky Ai and Laser blasts usually we're trying to make you know solid videos that we know how to edit you know that we know how to get our cuts down get our transitions get our pacing right get the audio to look good get the color to look good so that's where I'm really been focusing um most of my efforts right now is trying to help anybody who's opened this up and went oh no that looks that looks so hard where is the voice recorder so I can use it for software tutorials great question so the voice recorder is actually you're recording right into the the the digital audio workstation of fairlight right so we all understand fairlight is just a tab at the bottom that's you know that's the last one from the right that you go okay that's if I want to play around with audio I got to click over to that that page that tab so let me show you let me pull that up and show you what we're looking at so we kind of have an understanding here a little bit of of what the Dynamics is right we looked at that a bit so we can close that out I think I can close enough and hit the X so back over in the right okay we have as you can see now what I did was this was the one again I pushed the pan that way this one here on track two I played with the EQ back on track one I was playing around with the Dynamics so going back and forth right so I was just playing around with the different Dynamics back and forth um and now you're seeing those lines change based on what I did it's just representing you know you here's the EQ change you made you put some different Dynamics over here but um if you want to actually record this is interesting um what you have to do is see up here on whatever track if you want to record like audio see how it says no input what you'd need to do is assign an input for one of these tracks let's say let's say you added let's say you had all this stuff going on and you said well Daniel now I need to add a vocal track in here let me just shrink this down what you can do is Click over here anywhere right over here right click and say all right I'm gonna add a mono track that's what I'm if you can see this I'm actually I just right clicked add a track and then you have an option of you know there's the 5.1 you can do crazy Dolby Surround 7.1 but usually it's a track is either mono or stereo stereo for like music if you need things that are going to be panned left or right um a single audio track just for vocal pretty much only needs a mono track so we'll add a mono track and as you can see it just added that track down um here audio track five it stuck it in right before the bus so now there's this blank track that I can go okay now I'm getting ready I want to record my vocal into resolve so all I do is I added a track and now if we go back over to the right you can see over here there's the track right here's track five haven't done anything with it but if you scroll up to the top of track 5 up here you'll see that it says no input that's where you need to assign an input to that track and say well I need it's like turning your mic on just like when you go to a live stream or you do anything when you select if you're recording into anything you have to select if you've ever done a zoom call you have to select your mic and turn it off turn it on so people can hear you same thing here just do the input and then you want to um select let me see if you can see it the drop down menu you see from input it's underneath it says no input then it says input so what you want to do is click on that click on input and now it's going to open up up here an input window and you can see it says audio inputs right here now for me these are the these are the Decks that are attached to my system right now I don't have anything selected so this is the one I'm using right now for my mic so if I said okay I need an input I want to use that one right right there I've just selected it it's now got a white by box around it I've selected it and then down in the lower right you want to click on this patch you need to patch it in you need to tell DaVinci Resolve hey patch my microphone in that one I just selected and it'll say okay and now we're patched into here um and once you're patched um then you should be able to go into that track and you can arm it and activate it there's two places you can do this if you look at let me see right over here here's my audio track five right and I talked about this earlier there's you can lock it right lock the track this one you can solo it so you only hear this track you can mute it so you don't hear this track in the mix and then this other thing right here is the record that's how you can arm the track and actually get it to record so if I see if you see what I just did I hit it I have to have a microphone assigned so I go to the input where it says no input I have to select an input select my mic that I want them whatever's connected for my mic Source then once I've done that for the track and patched it in I just hit that record and now we're all set to go right now wherever the playhead is if I sit here and go okay I'm ready to go if you look up top here's your controls as I draw all over them I've like as I erase them by scribbling them over them that's your rewind that's your fast forward that's your play that's your stop and that's your record so all I would do at this point was is to hit record and whatever's playing right now it's actually hearing some of the dumb track I have to mute the drum tracks because I got that soloed but let me do this it's actually recording some of that and if I want to stop it I stop here it's actually it's actually picking up the drums because I have those soloed uh I'm gonna mute mute mute hold on one second you're getting a weird delay getting a delay E4 yeah okay so let me do this let me delete that um it's creating a patch delay let me see if I can mute it but I should be able to record again with it muted yeah so if I'm sitting here talking it should start to record whatever I'm saying um I muted it in there just so you're not hearing it through my speakers and getting a weird DeLay So I'm talking I'm talking I'm talking I'm talking and it's recording and when I'm done recording I then just hit stop now I've got it zoomed way in right that's why you're seeing so much that you know you're seeing it like like it had a weird red flashing look if I did it here and did that again and I have it zoomed out a little bit it wouldn't look so weird right you would see this recording as I spoke um it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it oh it stopped right there okay uh right here you can see it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop I go up and I hit the stop button right and then after you're done recording over here you can turn the record mode off because you don't want to accidentally hit record and record over something something so you can return you can turn that all off and then if I did this right if I go back in here and I solo that you should be able to hear just me talking it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it it'll stop right there okay uh right here you can see it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop I go up and I hit okay could y'all hear that all right did you see that was me recording right in so the simplest parts of that were all I did was to review go to the track that you want make sure if it says no input you have to click on that open it up you can see track five I've add I clicked on input let me do I'll do it on a different track click on input it opens up the input window let me see here make sure you've got it set for your audio inputs up here select the source the mic source and then when you're done go down to the lower right and you want to click I've already you know click on patch and you would patch that in I'm already patched in on that other track and then just set the track to record which can be done one of two ways you could set the record here in track five by clicking that but you can also do it over here too if you look right over this side in each track it also has a duplicate of each thing the solo the record and the mute so you can actually arm that track for recording and then record into that track does that make sense does everybody kind of get that did that kind of feel like you saw what was going on for a minute there uh let me know thumbs up thumbs down if that made sense that's the um that's one of the things that recording right into DaVinci is fairly simple and and you can sit there and you can just you know scrub right along and record your audio track you don't have to use a completely different digital audio software a lot of times I'll do voice over stuff where I'll be doing tutorials type things and I'll do that right from my desk so I'll need the ability to just record right into the software and then I can edit it and chop it up later on let me see we got the thumbs up yeah cool yep cool got it Bravo yep um yes um thank you can you do this on the edit page there is the ability to do some request I won't go I'm going to stay on the fairlight page for today it's a great question and I'll be jumping around more I'll do more of reasonable and we'll dive deeper I'm hoping that everybody has this this live stream to come back and start playing around with fairlight because when I asked how many you guys are working on your audio is like I don't know if I really know how to so I want to get people into this page I want to get them using fairlight and playing around in here I'm going to show you a couple more things so really all we're looking at here is it's just a bunch of tracks you got the ability to add EQ you got the faders on the right right and you can go in and you can add equalizer Dynamics compression limiters all those things you can put noise gates to quiet down some of the noise in between your words when you're talking take away some of the breaths like take out that lawnmower that you can hear in the background when you're when you're trying to get your your video filmed and the neighbor always pulls out this leaf blower that's like Story of My Life um one of the couple other things I want to show you about each track though that's important just so you understand the specifics of what we're looking at here let me go zoom in over to the right okay one of the other things you're going to see about that okay so we've got we understand every track is the same this is the same as this is the same as this is the same as this it's just another track side by side I've got five tracks in the project so you've got five different um vertical tracks right here that's the only reason we're seeing all these buttons and knobs but every single one of them is the same this narrow band all the way up and down here is exactly the same as this one here it's just another track all right it's as simple as that so above where we were at there's something that's kind of interesting this is plus button for effects there's a lot of great effects not only built into DaVinci Resolve but what's cool about DaVinci Resolve is it runs VST plugins this is really technical um VST plugins are basically the software plugins that you can purchase separately but DaVinci Resolve will recognize them and we'll let you use them in the software and that can be things as simple as like a Reverb or a delay or a flanger or a chorusing effect or think of any any type of audio processing effect like hey I wish I could get my voice to like a weird vibratoy wobbly thing well I've got a vibrato plug-in right that like VST that I can that I found online a lot of times you can get free VST plugins there's tons of them out there if you get them and learn how to put them into your computer system just like with Windows you know when you find a really cool font you get the font you load it into your system and then when you open up other programs there's your font you go oh I got all these fonts when I open up you know Photoshop or when I open up even wordpad or whatever the thing is suddenly you have all these different fonts or even in your video editing software you go yeah the fonts that are available to me in my software are the same ones that I have you know installed on my system the same thing is true with effects DaVinci will recognize those effects and go oh you have that installed in your system we can you can use that here in DaVinci Resolve that cool Reverb or that cool delay or that cool whatever audio VST plug-in that you want to use so fail I can use same VST plugins as Reaper 100 100 so a lot of you have seen me um talk about Reaper on my channel before and show how to get free VST plugins and how to install them into the your system into your computer anything that you have installed in your VST plugins from like Reaper or any other digital audio workstation um they will be recognized and resolved and let me show you let me show you where they're at uh this which is awesome I just love that that's one of the huge advantages I love to um DaVinci Resolve let me close this out get rid of that and let me go so if you go over here pick any track you see right here where it says effects and then there's a plus button by each one that's where you can open up your effects so if you picked let me go the first track and hit the plus button you'll now see it's got all these things broken down Channel delay Distortion Dynamics EQ instrument mastering modulation metering pitch restoration Reverb vocals there's like all these different effects and for every one of these that you click on it'll open some up so let me just close out this I have to do it this way hold on one second get this one I'm gonna go over to metering I'm going to click on that okay let me see if I can show you this so what I've done here is I clicked on metering and when it went over the fairlight effects are ones that come with DaVinci Resolve so that's fair light effects that are available to me um like I said some will be limited for the free version the studio version I think is a few more but that's you just would click that arrow and you would see more metering effects but these ones here that say VST those are ones that I've installed that's just different VST that I already have installed on my computer and things like span this is a spectrum analyzer it's one of my favorite tools that I use all the time for vocals and I think this one was actually free from a company called voxenjo but let me show you what it does uh let's put it on track two I'm going to add metering VST span now this is let me see if I can get this this is a spectrum analyzer and what it does remember we were talking about the EQ how it went from left to right and you could dial in you know the the uh the ups and downs and roll off the bottom and the high pass filter and the low pass filter and make the mids go up and the mids go down and some of you had some questions what if you had one frequency that seemed like annoying how would I get and we showed how to dial out I'd like a more of a single frequency well things like this this is one of my favorite tools a spectrum analyzer because what it does is it actually analyzes the graph of my audio so let's take what I I just had my uh let me see I just had my vocal in here let me mute yeah so my vocal is right here let's put it on this one I'm going to put it on this vocal path here um and that's track number five so in track number five I'm going to add that VST plug-in that's called span all right now when I hit play this is going to analyze the frequencies let me see if I get this scrolled in right so that what it will do is like if I have a lot of lows it would be like way up here and maybe the mids are a little bit not so much and then maybe there's a lot of highs and it'll draw in a real-time active wave almost like what the EQ is seeing that's already in your track and it's a great way to figure out if you need to adjust something in your audio let me try let me show so I can show you real time so I'm going to pull up the yeah let me pull it up sorry uh span again here's span and let me just play this track and you'll see this is the thing I just recorded of me talking you'll see this in real time start analyzing the EQ of my vocal that we recorded a minute ago it wouldn't look so weird right you'd see this recording as I spoke um it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it don't stop right there okay uh right here you can see it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop can you see that so that's all that's doing now is looking at my vocal and going that's how many lows you have that's how many mids you have how many highs you have if it was super bright um then you would see it in here this is great for finding problem frequencies because maybe your your voice realistically doesn't occupy much of these super lows and it shouldn't occupy too many of these super highs realistically vocals do something that's kind of like uh I want to call it almost a rainbow curve it's kind of like that every voice is a little different but it'll show you what's going on in there and different mics have different my you know vocal response so the mic that I'm using right now um you can see the actual audio spectrum of what it captured so when I play this that's what you're looking at right you see this recording as I spoke it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it don't stop right there see it's not too bad though here you can see it's kind of recording according red so you can see and as I stop it then it all just shrinks back down so this is really cool for um learning like to analyze your vocal like if you're listening to your vocal you go I don't know why it sounds bad it just doesn't sound something sounds wrong you can use a spectrum analyzer put it on your vocal and go let let me analyze is it that like you would see if there was like weird frequencies in the middle they would be spiking way up and you'd be seeing these little pops and jumps and go oh that's the frequency and you can actually hover over the frequency and go that's what I need to dial out so I love that tool for that kind of thing I think it's this is perfect for doing that kind of analyzation where you go all right let me find the problem you know maybe it's right here or maybe this Spike maybe a little bump in the low down so you can see it doing it don't stop right there that's actually pull it pretty flat it's not too bad so the tone right out of my mic is actually pretty good but that's where you could do it um an interesting thing um so like so one of the things you want to think about is let me show you this let's let's scroll back over here I can show you this in action this will explain two things at once so you can see here I have that span dropped in a track I actually think I put it in two tracks this is the one I put it in right over here oh it's my vocal track track number five so once I put it in it's saying span right above these other ones I don't have an effect in there I don't have an effect in there but anywhere I did add an effect it'll List It Up top so you can see oh yeah you've got that spec Spanish short for spectrum analyzer so you've got a spectrum analyzer attached there right so that's what it's telling you right here but one of the things you want to think about is look at all these things you've got effects you've got Dynamics you've got EQ right well what if you want them in a different order like should what if I want my effect to come on before my EQ or I want the this you know so it's I want the Dynamics to happen after the Spectrum analyze like I have a different effect I'm using and I want to be able to change things the order well if you look right above here let me click this out of here I'm right above here you'll see right in this top row this is called order and all of these right here have the same thing because it's the identical in every track and its effects Dynamics EQ and that is the order and what you can do is if you click on it look what happens you now have the ability to select a different order and go no no I want the Dynamics first and then the EQ and then the effects in the chain now or maybe you want to EQ them the Dynamics and then the effects and that's one of those things that can be you'll you may not see the need for why that's important now but as you start learning more effects and learning to put more things in you're going to go I'm so glad they have this this ability to change the order in the series of which of these things happens first where I use it a lot let's use this tracking example right so I want to make sure look at the order right now it says FX this is the track that my vocals in effects then Dynamics and then EQ why would I want to change that let me give you a reason if I start adjusting the EQ and I want to make sure that I see those adjustments in my Spectrum analyzer to make sure if I'm pulling out frequencies and I'm doing the right thing I want the Spectrum analyzer to go yep no you're doing a good job you're pulling out the right frequency that won't happen if the effects happens before the EQ so I need to rev I need to change the order I need EQ probably EQ Dynamics then FX so all I'll do is click on that right I'll open that up and what I want is probably one of these two right here the EQ and then the effects last EQ Dynamics effect is probably the one I want so I'm going to go with that one now I'll change the order and all I did was it just changed the order of those and now it says if you look these all say the same thing the first four but the last one I've changed the order and all I did was click on it now the order is different this is where you can really see some fun stuff happening let me show you so I'll let me exit out of this one and I will pull up the Spectrum analyzers right here you can see it on screen right now let me pull up I haven't done anything with the EQ on this vocal so let me do this if I actually played this let me see if I can get this so you can kind of see it this is the same as this I haven't changed this is the raw the Spectrum analyzer is just going to tell me this whole thing right here is just going to tell me what's going on with my recorded audio and then I've got the EQ that I can now change the equalization of the sound of this and when I modify this because of the order I have now you'll be able to see it here so if I start rolling off all of the lows you'll see the lows start to disappear in the Spectrum analyzer let me let me do that real time and let you see what I'm talking about let me get this thing set up to a point here um so let me do it this way I will play this and I will do some adjustments once it gets there it wouldn't look so weird right you would see this recording as I spoke um it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it see that took all the lows out it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop I go up and hit right so I just took all the laws out and you saw it happen in real time you saw it happen over over here when I took all those lows out what happened was you saw this all start to lose the lows as I slid that over you saw them disappear in real time from that track and when I where it can be really helpful is usually don't take off a whole lot of lows I'll usually take a little bit of lows to take Rumble out but it's really good if there's a sibilance thing that I was talking about let me do the same thing and let me roll off some of the highs so I'll play that same track uh from the same spot hopefully let me see if I can find it I think we're still playing that's why okay let me kick that back let me go back here yeah right there okay now what I'll do is I'll roll off some of the highs okay and you should see in real time this start to roll off in the top end will start to disappear from the vocal and it'll take away some of the super top end like this the high the super highs cheese s's the K sounds all right let's do it looks so weird right you would see this recording as I spoke um it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it you hear it okay uh right here too much it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop I go up and I hit see what I did there it was just enough to sort of take off some of those super highs um and it just it rolled off as I rolled off the stuff that was over here let me go back a little bit as I rolled off the stuff here you started seeing this all roll off there too that started moving backwards in this direction so those are some of the things that I love using I love having a spectrum analyzer that I can insert right in as a VST plug-in I can go I have that on my computer and if I go in and I open up fairlight if I'm into Vinci resolve it'll be listed in there I can pop it up and I can use it in the software really good for Rolling off things it's really cool for doing things like making Lo-Fi music like if you want to get a very cool Lo-Fi sound you can start rolling off some of those those tones especially if you're using anything from epidemic sound do we talk about epidemic sound recently epidemic sound you guys I have to shout them out again epidemic sound is a sponsor of today's video um as you know there's DaVinci Resolve is in isn't sponsoring any of this stuff um and we're uh you know and the we've been making a lot of shorts on the channel and they don't make any money and uh epidemic sound has been great about uh supporting what we do here so listen if you're interested please check out there's links below Megan's been dropping them in the chat go try you can go try epidemic sound for 30 days for free right now using that link that I've got share.epidemicsound.com forward slash Danny Patel April 23rd apr23 the link is in the description it's in description of this one it's gonna Megan's will post it in chat go do me a favor makes it helps me out when they see the people from my community have gone over and check out their thing I love their music and they also have a code if you like it you can sign up for the monthly plan it's 50 off your first three months and then some costing like 750 a month and for 30 days 7.50 it's like two cups of coffee and you got music for a month but go try it from a sign up test it out see if you like it and if you do use the code and grab a few months and play around with it um because it's really I love what I love their music like I think their music's great but let me let me go back to what I'm going to show you I'm going to show you some of those Lo-Fi tricks we were talking about right let me see if I can do it here one of the things I really like about epidemic sound remember I was telling you how they break up the the audio tracks let me do this I'm going to show you let me get back real quick so here's um let me mute my audio I'm not where I was talking in this track I'm gonna go all the way back let's get all the way back okay so we're here at the beginning of this song right um one of the cool things is as I said earlier because epidemic sound doesn't just give you the song they also give you this what they call the stems so instead of just giving me the song they break it up by each track which I love so in here we have oh well here's this is your drum track and that's your Bass track and then that's part of the you know the the keyboard and that's one of the melody lines uh down below sorry down at the bottom and I can turn each of those on and off instead of just having a song I can actually control them separately this works great when we have all these mixers going on inside of DaVinci Resolve a lot of times if you ever have this happen where like you're working with a song on your you put it underneath your video and the song you turn this song down but like the drums are loud like you can still hear the drums but you can't hear the melody anymore one of the things I like about epidemic is they give you the stems so in here what you can do is remix the whole song Any Way You Want um and I'll do things like just simple mix you can go okay well these are all in different tracks if I start playing this maybe the drums are too loud and I just and I just want to take the drums down wow the drums are kind of too much for what I want I'll just turn that track down so now I'm just hearing the drums on that one and then I can decide what other things I want louder [Music] turn base up more [Music] so a lot of times when I'm mixing I'll do this thing where I'll I'll uh I'll definitely like change the mix to work with what I've got going on so I'm changing the levels of the drums and the keeping the bass louder really really cool thing you can do but what's really cool is you can start doing some cool Lo-Fi effects so what you can do is like remember I was showing you with the EQ and stuff so let's take the let's take like the drum track let me solo the dumb that was the drum track I'm going to solo that I think this is the one right here yes all right let me turn it up so you can hear it [Music] all right it's got a bit of a Lo-Fi sound anyway but if I do something like let me get that EQ out on that one let me reset it and then I can go I know I want to make it really low-fi I'm gonna just roll down the very top and if you remember that was that low pass filter that only that's the very top band Six that pulls it back and only lets lower frequencies through to get that Lo-Fi sound you can go oh I'll do that I'll just roll it back [Music] can you hear it getting a little more Lo-Fi then drop that back in the mix and you can actually start hearing what it sounds like [Music] that's a really cool thing for when you happen to have certain songs that you love using but maybe maybe the uh the drums are a little too Snappy you can turn them down roll off some of the highs um absolutely the reason I use epidemic sound is for that because I can control the music mix and not just stick a song in I can take Parts out I can get rid of the drums I can get rid of the guitar part or just use the guitar part or Loop the guitar part or Loop the drums and it really gives you that flexibility to do whatever you want inside of your Video Edit so please check them out link down below link on the screen um that that free 30-day trial is absolutely worth it because I think you'll fall in love they have so many different genres so many different beats per minute you can find anything with vocals without vocals stylistically mood you want happy sad you want country do you want hip hop do you want they have it all nicely organized um let me see let me just see what we were talking about here on the uh what else we have in the audio track so most of the basics we went through I'm hoping this kind of makes sense for you so at the very bottom right these are our faders that's the that's the volume for each individual track up and down right then we got into right above that was the ability to solo there's a solo button there mute button for each track and then record if you were gonna record like your own vocal right into DaVinci we showed how to do that um the bus this is where it gets sent to the bus right over there that bus above that is let me see let me set that up again above that as you saw we have in each track there is the ability to pan left right right move that around you want it more on the left speaker more on the right speaker if you've got a Dolby system you want it in we have like five or seven points around you can go oh I only want that in the front left speaker of of you know my Dolby setup above that you have your EQ you can equalize the tone of whatever vocal you've got there will be some music you've got going on above that we've got our dynamics that I showed you the Noise Gate the compressor the limiter um above that you've got the ability to add your own effects VST and use some of the more the fancier effect effects that are in um DaVinci Resolve above that you have your order which one remember we talked about what do you want to have first you want the EQ then the Dynamics then the effects or do you want to change the order that allows you to change that order um I I really think that if you're playing around even with the free version of DaVinci Resolve definitely check out some of the effects they have built in let me go to number five which I'm going to solo which was the one where I was just yammering along and I recorded it I'm going to go into right here I'm going to click on that plus button under this is the effects box right right across here I'm going to click on that and I'm going to add let me see if they have like a Reverb or a delay let me see Dynamics uh yes down here I can see it so down below you can see um as I expanded it says Reverb these are the reverbs that I installed and here are the ones that come directly with fairlight I haven't even tried them Let's test one out let's put a little Reverb on this vocal and see what it does so I'm going to click on that plus Reverb click on fairlight and then the Reverb now this opens up I think you guys know what Reverb is it's when you can make your vocal kind of sound like you're in a a cavern or that you're at the Grand Canyon you know and you're kind of yelling that big echoey if you've ever been in a big Cathedral that sound of not quite an echo but that that big open Hall sound when you're in a big open gymnasium and you yell it's not so much a delay like an echo it's Reverb it's the sound of your voice kind of bouncing around and creating that huge Chasm effect right so let's turn this on let's see what we got going on we'll put a little fairlight Reverb on the vocal here um let's go for it see what it sounds like [Music] foreign so that's a really heavy Reverb I haven't used this particular one before but I can tell you what it does because the most reverbs are very similar there's different types of Reverb pre-delay is basically there's a quick little delay um right after your vocal when you want the Reverb to kick in Reverb time would be how long that Reverb is it is a small does it sound like you're in a small bathroom or does it sound like you're in a huge church right and you can start playing around with the EQ and the tone of it and then over here is the most important one dry and wet that is something you guys should be familiar with those terms dry and wet when we talk about any kind of effect for vocal wet means you've got a lot of that effect on it dry means you have very little of that effect so if I went completely dry you would hear no Reverb and it's right now set for completely wet which is why it's so heavy but Watch What Happens I'm going to take this last little thing here and I'm going to turn the wetness down and you will then hear that Reverb start sounding a little more like oh now I know what that sound is just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it don't stop right there okay uh right here you can see it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going into there and when I'm ready to stop see so now it started sounding suddenly like I was uh like I was just in a room like a bigger room right so you can set some Reverb you can get that effect if you ever want to create an effect like you were you know you were in a big wide space and you had a very dry vocal sometimes I'll take a vocal like this that's a little too dry sometimes you're like certain mics get very boxy and I'll put a tiny bit of room on it like a very small room and I'll open up the sound of the mic a bit by adding the tiniest bit of small Reverb just to get a little bit of space on The Voice because you sometimes like the lavalier mics and stuff they almost sound like they sound like they're so close that there's like someone's holding their nose and they're really stuffy and boxy and sometimes adding just a little reflection can make it feel like oh I'm in a room when I talk to people in a room it's not like it sounds like a huge Echo but there's a little bit of natural Ambiance that you can bring in by using things like the Reverb but under that effects tab that plus and then the effects go play around with all the cool um fairlight effects that they have right there um right there on that effects section here uh any hit that plus button and you'll see all the different options for metering mastering effects delay all kinds of cool things that you can add that was a Reverb we were playing with but they've got quite a few um different um things that you can look at as you can see modulation metering mastering instrument EQ Dynamics Distortion delays reverbs um things for vocals there's all kinds of just neat things to help your vote like different tools to help get your audio squared out and or if you're doing like we did here shout out to epidemic sound playing around with the mix of your music that's another way to do it I'm going to show you one last thing there's one last thing that you want to pay attention to if you're in here if you have a lot of tracks going on like this and you can see I don't have a lot but you know there's a few tracks of music and then there's a vocal track and some other things you can create groups of where things go let me show you how to do that um it was kind of like that bus right now there's one two three four five tracks and they all go to that bus that Master fader that we were talking about well maybe I I want these this is the music music it's like drums bass guitar and synthesizer maybe I want those all grouped together so that once I have them set exactly where they like them maybe I've got them I took the drums down a little I made the synthesizer a little louder maybe the bass was up whatever it was but now the overall music is too loud do I have to take each one of these and pull them down a tiny bit that would take me forever well what you can do is click up here and group and you can create a group for them so let me do that I'm going to click in the group and I'm going to call if you see right here it'll say well what what group do you want it we'll call it group one we'll say you know what I want all of these things to go into group one I'm going to click on all of the music ones there's all the epidemic sound um the they call them the stems the epidemic sound stems okay so now when I look all of these stems are now in a group right they're all in a group now and if I look let's see where is it if I pull this out if you notice there's been a new fader added all the way in the lower right and it's called group it's called group right now I can change that name I think we talked about it just by clicking on it I don't want to call it you know I could share I could call it whatever the music or whatever call it whatever I want you know and that's what it is but the minute I change it to music then each track that was just originally assigned to group one it changes that name here too and it says oh you changed the name of that group to music it's now music so each one of those tracks is labeled music and what's cool is when the music is playing and maybe I'm talking at the same time I can now I've got the music dialed in the way I want different settings than than you know drums up or drums down whatever that might be I can go over and I can control the all of those music tracks all four of these tracks are now going to be controlled by this one music fader so I can sit there and go hey play that would you and just let's find the right level you play it morning as I spoke um it's just right now doing that thing let me go down so you can see it doing it don't stop right there okay uh right here you can see it's kind of recording in Red so it's just recording as I'm talking this is me and it's going over there I'm ready to stop it so the secret so now all of those faders you see how they're all moving with this one down in that lower right they all move up and down when I move that one up and down that's all all of these oops sorry all of these are now controlled all four of these are controlled by that one so I've got them grouped together that's an important thing that you'll need to know for when you a real life uh example of that would be if you were if you had a bunch of takes of you talking right it was on different tracks like maybe one thing you filmed on your phone and you've got some b-roll that you were talking to but you filmed that from a camera and then another one was from a GoPro and you've got all the levels where you wanted so they sounded good together but then you were trying to add in some music and some other sound effects and stuff you could group all of those different microphones of you talking in different through different devices different cameras group them all into just call it my you know my my vocals my voice group them all into that and now you can control because you got them all sounding the right level to get to each one of those each mic sounds right like that when I go from this mic to this mic it sounds good the right level but overall all of the vocals are just a little quiet group them now you can control bring all your voices your voice up all at once all the voice tracks down at once all all music tracks up at once all down at once really great for sound effects that grouping feature is a really good one to learn so you can have them all grouped have that separate fader and go perfect I got it pretty much there but I just want to make sure that I get you know that final tweak where I get it right where I want it so I I that's that's most of the basic components of fairlight in the mixer section I think that's where most of you um want to probably start get in there play with the EQ go over to the fairlight page play with the EQ play with the Dynamics play with that compressor play with the Noise Gate in the expander a little bit play around with some of the effects just to try them out and go I'm going to do something fun with my voice and put a little delay on it a little Reverb just to learn it and go once I know where that is now I know how to get there if I ever do need to do a scene where I'm like yelling and I want it to sound like I'm yelling across the Grand Canyon and go hello hello hello I go right to the effects and I can add a delay play around you'll be surprised how much you can improve the sound of your vocal and we'll get in deeper you know in some other conversations about ways to use some of these plugins to correct your audio a little bit better but I think you'll find once you learn where those features are and start hearing them and using them yourself that things will naturally start working out and be a little more um they'll be a little easier for you to understand where they are and why they do what they do um Fusion yeah we'll be doing Darth we'll do a Fusion one um Fusion is a fusion is the Beast is the one that it it can go forever I mean it's there's so much you can do in fusion um and I want to make sure I can explain I want to keep it simple and I want to make sure I can explain it in a way that people understand and I will get to a fusion one we will do that um group your horns exactly right like you've um in from my end when we used to do recording we do a lot of music recording we would have like a trumpet a trombone a you know a saxophone player you know you could have all these different horn sections in there Alto sacks and baritone sacks you get all the horn section like mixed right the right level for the trumpet the trombone and you get them all together you group them all together into one and then you can bring all the horns all up up and down at once that was a that was something we're very used to in the studio um one more time guys thank you for hanging out today definitely please do me a favor and go um check out that link for epidemic sound let them know that we've got a strong community and and we're not we're not afraid to click a link and go try out a free 30 days of epidemic sound I promise you it's such a good product just try it for the 30 days just to see how cool the music is and the music you get in the 30 days you're allowed to keep on your videos they don't they have the allotment um page right there where um I'm sorry what the what are you what are you doing to me what are you saying Megs we had a question oh good um wondering if not a rock star is on epidemic no no because they don't have it license from me but it is on it is on I'm not a rock star is on um iTunes it's on Spotify it's on all the major streaming services YouTube music um it is on the other ones though that's pretty funny uh yeah it's been a lot of fun so yeah please check out give epidemic a whirl we have the NADA Rockstar 50 code that will get you 50 off the monthly try if you wanted to buy the first three months it'll give you half off so it only costs you seven dollars and fifty cents for an entire month if you like the free trial and you want to keep going for a few more months try some more music that's a great way to do it 50 off you I can't be I don't I don't mind it when someone cuts their prices in half for us so thank you for uh hanging out thank you for the great questions I hope this was useful I will be doing this again don't be afraid to ask me questions down in the comments section of this live stream and I do my best to really keep up with comments so if there's something specific that really um has been bugging you on DaVinci Resolve whether it's you know related to the fairlight page or not just ask me and we'll see if we can get to that and get some of those questions solved for you uh Megan thank you so much for holding down the fort for me my friend you're always the best um you guys try to have a great rest of your Sunday if it's the weekend for you and I'll uh I'll talk to you soon [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 16 2023