Matching Microphones in Final Cut Pro

it's mark from ripple training so when i do the show i actually use two separate microphones for the on camera portion right now i'm using a sennheiser boom mic it's right up here and i'll show you a record of my iphone here so you can see the mic and this mic is attached to my sony a7s iii through this k3m adapter so it goes directly into the camera and that's a big reason why i like this mic is i'm able to record directly to the camera so i don't need to sync in post and i also prefer it over a lav which i used to do so i don't need to mess with a lav mic every time it's set in one place and it works all the time now when i record the on-screen portion and i'm recording with screenflow i use a usb mic and that i have on a boom right here this is a logitech blue mic and i love this microphone i love the sound of it and it's super easy to position and use when recording the screen great but they sound really different from each other so today on map rex studio i'm going to show you how i match these mics to each other in final cut pro [Music] all right here in final cut i've got two audio only clips in my timeline i've set the clip appearance to audio only so we have these nice big waveforms i've also made them very big you can hit shift command plus or minus to change those i've opened up my audio meters and the only change i've made to these clips i didn't do anything to the sennheiser clip this is the sennheiser shotgun mic and this is the logitech blue mic the logitech blue mic i increased the volume by eight decibels just so they match the level a little closer and it makes a little easier to hear the differences now i recorded a single phrase simultaneously to both mics so they're both recording the exact same thing let's take a listen this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other okay so the levels are very close to each other but they sound very different due to the different eq now there's multiple ways you can go around making these match but this is a way that i like to very much i personally like this logitech blue mic sound more and i'd like to force this sennheiser one to match it so with it selected i can do a couple of things i can either go to the enhancements pop-up menu here and choose match audio i can use a keyboard shortcut shift command m or up in the audio inspector there is an equalization option and by the way if you don't see this equalization option it may be because your audio configuration is set to dual mono or even more than that if you have multiple components if you selected the overall component container you won't see that option for equalization you need to select individual components but if you're set to stereo it'll be available now if you turn this on by default you'll get this very simple graphic equalizer however let me turn that back off if you go down and select match you'll get the exact same result if you had selected match audio so it's asking for a clip to match this audio too and i'll click on this clip here to select it and then i'll click apply match and it looks like the volume just got a little lower but let's play it this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other and it does sound closer let's bring up the level a little bit to make the match levels a little more and listen this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other all right so they sound better the second one still sounds deeper like it has more low frequency volume to it so with this first one selected up in the audio inspector we can click this icon here to open up the auto filter and see what it's doing and you can see once it analyzed the second clip the logitech blue mic that it found that this first mic had frequencies that need to be boosted on the low end and other frequencies need to be lowered on the even low to mid to high end so this is the change that it made in order to make it match better it's not quite good enough but one thing we can do in order to get them to match each other is now match our logitech blue mic to the sennheiser mic that's been adjusted because it's already closer so i'll select this logitech blue mic clip and this time i'll use the enhancements menu and choose match audio and this time i want to match it to this one and it will include when i click on that and click apply match it will include the adjustments i made to that first clip and let's play that this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other and it's better we're still off on the volume a little bit but let's make it about like that now let's see what it did i'm going to open up that filter for the second clip and put it right over the second clip and you can see what went on here is it basically did the exact opposite because it found there was still a difference between the two so instead of boosting the lower frequencies the volume of the lower frequencies of this first clip for the second clip it lowered those because it needed to boost these to match this one so it needed to lower these in order for them to both match better so by matching to each other we've got a pretty good match with a little bit of volume adjustment we could probably call it a day but let's say that i really like this logitech blue mic sound and i don't want to adjust it in this way what do we do so one option is that i can drag on this slider in order to level out that change so there's no change being made and the reason i'm doing that is i want to keep this up here and i'll show you why i'm going to go back to the first clip and for this analyzer first i'm going to click on it to enable it and then click on the word pre so it says post so it's going to analyze the audio frequency spectrums after the filter's been applied and i'm just going to play a little bit of it this is a test of audio so i'm going to stop right after says audio and now we can see the distribution of levels across the audio spectrum let's see what it looks like on the other one i'll turn on the analyzer set it to post and play to the same point this is a test of audio view and now we can see how similar each of those look it looks like i still need to boost the lower end a little higher one thing i do is use that same slider that i did on this clip but on this clip i'm going to drag up which will increase the amount of change across the frequency spectrum which looks kind of like what we need to do here we need to pull this up a little bit and pull this down a little bit let's run that analysis again before we play it this is a test of audio and we can see that's done a pretty good job we have to do it again on this test audio and now visually we have a closer match of course it's your ears that matter the most so let's play it back this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other and this one's still a little bit too high but they're very very close now finally what we can do let's find another representative word this is a test of audio so i'll stop right after audio this is a test of audio and if i compare them they look very very close it looks like we need a little bit of boost here one thing i'm going to do is turn on fade extremes so we just don't get any boost at the very low end but i still feel like i need a little bit more boost here on the low end and maybe bringing down the mids a little bit as well we can adjust these frequency ranges simply by clicking and dragging directly above the graph and we can raise the volume of specific frequencies note the little tooltip there that says press shift to adjust q so if i add the shift key it will adjust the range over which that volume adjustment is being affected and if i want to change my mind i can just option click and it will get rid of that so once i'm going to drag up i'm going to add the shift key to spread that out a little more to even it out and then i'm going to drag down a little bit here just a touch maybe drag up here a little bit more and even that out and let's play that back this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other and that's much better maybe i'll pull this down a little bit okay now that i've got a match i'm going to move this filter out of the way make sure this first clip is selected i can save my changes here as an effect preset so i'll click that and now i can name my effects preset and save in the category you can see i've already created a category called my audio effects and if we go over to the effects browser there's my category and i've already saved it here match sennheiser to logitech blue mic so i can use that to very quickly match going forward now i'm not really done what i like to do with any audio before i'm done is to add a limiter you could also add a compressor i don't find the compressor necessary for my particular voice but a compressor can help narrow the dynamic range and bring up very low sound and bring down very high volume in order to have a little more even i find i don't need that but if we go back into my audio effects steve my partner ripple has given me a little preset of the limiter called steve's voiceover enhancer i'm going to drop that on both these clips and we'll open that up from the audio inspector and this is basically a brick wall or a way of bringing down a level to make sure it's not going above a specific amount it adds some gain and has a certain amount of time for its release and its output level but the bottom line is it should make sure that i'm not peaking anytime if i get really excited and talk really loudly so let's try that out this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other this is a test of audio from two different microphones in an attempt to get them to match each other so that's how i match mics how do you do it leave us a comment below and we'll see you next time here on macbreak studio [Music]

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Published: Wed Sep 08 2021