Increase Audio CLARITY (Crisp Clear Dialogue) in DaVinci Resolve 18 | Lav Mics Especially!

have you ever had some dialogue that you just want to make a little bit crisper and a little bit clearer so that it's easier to understand for your audience that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do today we're going to take in a sample of audio and make the voice sound a little bit clearer if you're new to my channel my name is Jason yedlowski talk a lot about audio in fairlight in DaVinci Resolve here but I've got tons of DaVinci Resolve videos that can help you along your journey in learning this awesome program with that said let's jump into resolve I'm gonna show you how to increase the clarity of your dialogue mintage resolve here and I've got a sample clip in my timeline and I want you to listen to it as I play through it and see if you think it needs to be a little bit clearer so that whoever's watching our video just understands what I'm saying a little bit better I'm using a lab mic and a lot of times the clarity on lav mics are not that great so I'm going to show you how we can quickly and easily fix that so let's play through the clip first and then I'm going to show you how to fix it another great technique to note is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ it's a few simple changes and tweaks that we can do to just increase the clarity and make the voice sound a little bit clearer and that's what I'm going to show you how to do in this little clip okay so it's not too bad right not too bad but it could be better now we can make these changes right here in the edit Tab and we're going to be using the EQ don't worry it's really easy EQ work to make these changes but I want to apply it on the entire track level because if I recorded with this setup a lab mic I probably need to do this for all my Clips not just an individual clip so we're going to jump into fairlight and use the eeq in fairlight and make those changes that we want so I'm going to hit the musical notes at the bottom here to jump into fairlight you want to make sure that your mixer is open so at the top here we have mixer and in our mixer we have our EQ right here on my vocal track so I'm going to double click that to open up my EQ when it comes to the EQ I could give you frequency numbers and all that but that gets complicated I'm going to keep it real simple and we're just going to use our ears to make adjustments and get it to sound the way that we want it to sound so when it comes to Clarity for dialogue we want to increase the higher end frequencies so if we look at the EQ here from approximately three to four thousand up to eight thousand is kind of where we want to increase but you could just take your default settings right here play through your clip grab this 0.5 and just boost this up and we can see it's increasing our higher end frequencies so that's what we're going to do first because it's the easiest thing that you could do and you really don't need to know anything other than grab this point and move it back like this so we're going to play through our clip I'm going to grab 0.5 bring it up and I'm going to drag it back until my audio my dialog sounds a little bit clearer so let's go ahead and do that and start with it at zero play it back and we're gonna make the adjustment until it sounds good right we have to develop our ears so that we can hear the sound that we want for our dialogue another great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ it's a few simple changes and tweaks that we can do okay could you hear the difference there now you might need a good pair of headphones or a good pair of speakers to really hear the difference but let me play a little before and after for you another other great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ so can you hear how it got a little bit clearer there it's just going to make it easier for our audience to listen to and to understand what we're saying in our dialogue now we could just leave our EQ like this but if you want to get a little bit more precise and just fine tune it a little bit more here's another thing that you can try so when it comes to our aeq a lot of times we don't need to boost these things way up on the high end here right they're just frequencies that we don't need in our dialogue but what we can do is change the way our band 5 is working right so if we look at our band 5 down here I can click on this guy and change it to a bell-shaped curve and now you can see we have a different shape for our 0.5 now if I hover over my 0.5 and if you have a middle Mouse wheel you can scroll your mouse wheel and it's going to make that either more sharp which means it's affecting less frequencies or we can bend it out and more frequencies will be affected so in this case I kind of want to bend it out quite a bit it to affect a few frequency ranges so where I want to look with this point now is somewhere around that four to eight K range somewhere in there I want to play through my clip and I'm going to boost it up and just move it back and forth until it sounds the way I want it to sound until it's a little bit clearer and a little bit easier to understand so let's go ahead and do that another great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ it's a few simple changes and tweaks that we can do to just increase the clarity and make the voice so there we go I think that sounds pretty good A little before and after for you here you go here's before and then I'll turn it on for an after another great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit so can you hear it there it gets a little bit clearer it's a little bit crisper and a little bit easier to understand now if you want to go just a little extra step further you could come in here just turn on your band six and just bring it back just a little bit like that now what that's going to do is just cut out any of those really high-end frequencies that we don't want to hear right because like I just mentioned we don't need that really high-end frequency stuff in our dialogue it's just not necessary so we could just throw on what's called a low pass filter so everything above it gets cut out everything below it gets to pass through and this is just going to help get rid of any of those really high-end frequencies that we don't need for our dialogue and as a bonus bonus tip here if you find that your audio still sound in a little muddy or a little bit boomy I do have a video on how to do that but I'm going to show you real quick what you can do is come into your EQ just turn on your band one and all you have to do is grab your band one point and bring it up until it doesn't sound so muddy or boomy and that's going to help get rid of that low end frequencies that you just don't need and it's going to further contribute to increasing the clarity of your dialogue so let's just play through that real quick and we're going to add that in then your audio is going to be sounding really sweet it's a great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ it's a few simple changes and tweaks that we can do to just ink all right there we go now you're just doing it by ear here right we're listening to make sure that it sounds like we're cleaning it up so just again one final before and after here here's what it sounds like before then I'll turn it on with these few simple changes and it's going to make a big difference another great technique to know is how to increase the clarity of the voice a little bit using the EQ really big difference there I think it helps a lot to use a little bit of EQ on almost every single dialogue clip and you can even take a microphone that is super cheap and doesn't sound great use a little EQ on it and really make that microphone sound good in your videos increasing the clarity of your dialogue here in DaVinci Resolve it's real easy a few simple changes if you like this video you want to learn more about editing your audio in DaVinci Resolve in fairlight or you just want to learn more about resolve in general make sure you subscribe to my channel hit that like button if you learn just a little something in this video with that said guys I will see you in the next video peace now hopefully it recorded all that because I did this once already and for whatever reason the screen recorder didn't record the audio from resolve hey when that happens right but hey it happens sometimes what are you gonna do what are you gonna do but we are back to uh filming time to film up the next video see ya

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Keywords: AUDIO CLARITY, DAVINCI RESOLVE 18 AUDIO TUTORIAL, FAIRLIGHT, DaVinci Resolve Tutorial For Beginners, DaVinci Resolve, DaVinci Resolve Audio Editing, davinci resolve dialogue, DaVinci Resolve Fairlight Tutorial, Dialogue Editing, Dialogue Editing tutorial, clearer vocals, eq vocals, eq dialogue, EQ, JAY YADLOVSKI

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2023