Podcast Editing Tips THAT SAVE HOURS (Delete Silence & Mute Microphones)

hello I'm Mike Russell from music radio creative comm this video will be the ultimate guide to deleting silences and eliminating mic bleed for podcasters [Music] right post-processing of your podcast it's great when you've got three guests in a room right but they all speak in two different microphones and all the microphones pick up the other speakers even when they're not speaking so you've got all the speakers on the other tracks terrible stuff right then you've got a load of silences you want to lease out and often you have to do that in the multitrack and it takes you loads of time and there must be an easier way right yes the RIS and I'm gonna show you in this video so first of all you'll see here we've got a zoom track 1 track 2 track 3 3 mics plugged into a zoom recorder picking up everything so here's a speaker mainly this is a foreign language podcast we're currently working on at MRC and here are the guests picking up on the same microphone in the background not good is it the same we track - yeah here's our speaker and there's the background pick up no good and it's a similar story for track 3 mr. speaker background noise so let's conquer the mic bleed first of all using either a gate or a downward expander I have demonstrated this on my channel before but here's how you'd set one up with a really nice accuracy first you select a portion of the audio where the speaker is not speaking it's just background noise and you go into window amplitude statistics you scan the selection you've just selected it gives you a magic number here peak amplitude - fourteen point five nine let's call that - 15 and then we go into effects will go into amplitude and compression will go to dynamics and let's for this one set default switch on auto gate we'll set the threshold as minus fifteen the magic number we just found as peak amplitude in amplitude statistics and just going into the preview window now boom look at that look at how clever that is that gate now is only letting through our speaker and it's cutting out most of the mic bleed yes there's a few little bits here and there but that actually might be our speaker kind of going oh yeah or whatever and we obviously want to keep those in so listen to how clean this is no mic bleed whatsoever how cool is this and then eventually you're gonna see the guest speaker will come in on their track Maryam took note director car later you might find that a bit aggressive and if you do just back it off ever so slightly like so and then again let's just pull this him further so we can hear Maryam took motor car really made there born a day so that's sounding really good isn't it and it's eliminated most of our mic please we can then go ahead and do this on all the track so if you want you can select the whole track it's just gonna create a preview sequence down below so we can see that most of the might bleed will go from this track look how clever that is that's just stunning so we apply it it'll take a little while to apply but when it's done it will be worth it because you eliminated most of your problems there on track one you can then go ahead and do this for tracks too and tracks three and then you're pretty much halfway there but another common problem that often comes up is you'll get silences in between the speakers and just stuff that needs to be chopped out and the traditional way is to start a new multitrack session should make sure it's at the right sample right there you drag all three tracks onto separate tracks like so and then you'd go through wouldn't you and you'd kind of I do you say there's a silence let's edit it let's drag it in or maybe you'd even be so clever as to say do you know what instead of doing that I'm gonna select everything and I'm gonna ripple delete it so right-click and well where's ripple delete where is it there it is Oh what's the shortcut Oh a load of buttons okay whatever ripple to leave some budges everything up now you could do that and you could take ages to go through and delete every little silence there in your podcast with two three four five six seven guests right but that just takes a long time and there must be an easier way well let's watch this I'm just gonna actually get rid of these tracks now from the multitrack I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna create a poly wave this is cool right what you can do is you can go new audio file you can say I want it to be not stereo but I want it to be custom and then you can say okay let's just delete these left and right tracks we've got three guests here so I label this channel one and then I'm gonna put in - and then I'm gonna put it in channel 3 and you can do this as many times as you want up to 32 tracks by the way click OK and we'll call this podcast with three guests and click OK and now let's get rid of the preview window we have 1 2 3 channels 1 2 3 down the side and now I can go in and I can copy and paste so copy and paste and then I disabled track 2 & 3 hit paste that's my first guest on track 1 then I can go to track to command a or control a command C ctrl C copy that guest over to my new track disabled track 1 enable track 2 boom and again zoom here we are copy or copied back over here an able track 3 disabled track 2 boom okay let's get that all going on and then really clever thing deleting silence is automated in audition by going to window and we're looking for Diagnostics here we're looking for delete silence let's go to default you can obviously change this you can change your settings you can find your levels and all of that kind of stuff I'm just gonna leave it leave it as default for example scan it's gonna go through all three tracks find silences in common with all of those tracks boom there are all your silences now that's the kind of work you'd spend up to hours doing in the multitrack right editing out all those silences well now with one click of a button delete all and a few seconds for audition to do it's bouncing beachball thing and calculate all those silences in three tracks at the same time it'll go through I'll say and I'll speed this up because it probably take a few minutes but it's still shorter than you going through and doing it in the multitrack yourself right and there you go takes next to all of those fix problems 156 problems detected a hundred and fifty six problems repaired that's 156 times of your work reduced in the time it took you to go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea so that's all done now you'll notice I didn't do the reduction of mic bleed on track 2 & 3 it just simply didn't want to waste your time and do that but obviously you would do that so you'd have one three clean tracks and then you can do the fun editing the stuff you know as a podcast producer or host is producing your own show you kind of want to do which is tidy up and edit out words and you know the fun things rather than deleting silence ISM reducing might bleed and making edits now you can go into your multitrack session with that poly wave that we created with three different tracks we can actually access those three separate tracks by popping down this triangle here boom track one two three they're all mono speech tracks and we can say put in track one here put in track two here but in track three here and now with your mic bleed sorted and your silence is deleted you have got just the fun bits left and that is how Adobe Audition can save you time as a podcast editor a podcast producer and make you sound awesome while health kist making more cups of tea I think anyway go and enjoy a cup of tea if this helps you please leave a comment down below [Music]

Channel: Mike Russell

Views: 100,666

Keywords: podcast editing, podcast editing tutorial, podcast recording, how to edit a podcast, podcast editing software, podcasting tips, audio editing, podcasting tutorial, podcasting advice, podcast tips, how to edit a podcast in adobe audition, podcast editing tips, podcast editing adobe audition, delete silence, mute microphones, mic bleed, noise gate

Id: 6HecS03NfFE

Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/markdenholm]

Rather than doing this in the original files when I’ve needed to do something like this I’ve done it similar and analysed the original file using amplitude statistics but applied the noise gate in the multi-track.

Same result but no destructive editing so no need to duplicate files as the originals remain untouched.

Important to say if doing it in the multitrack it has to come at the start of the effects rack before any compression etc as otherwise you’ll end up sucking up the bleed and making the removal virtually impossible.

[u/Christopholies]

Wow. You deserve a cup of tea for this. Thanks for sharing!

[u/CorkyKneivel]

YOOOO thank you for this!

[u/PoldiWieland]

thanks for sharing!

[u/El_Guapo]

Nice take on the hidden pitfalls of podcasting and getting clean audio

Well done!

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you so much, I’ve been trying to find a work around for some mic bleed and this was exactly what I needed

[u/HookedOnRice]

You're an absolute legend Mike! I can't overstate how much your tutorials have helped me

[u/heavyifugao]

This is great. I wish I saw this 2 days ago when I was doing it all manually.

Does anyone know how to replicate this process for removing mic bleed in Reaper?