So how do you edit audio? Tips needed

james-s5985 wrote on 10/29/2017, 6:59 AM

I have 2.1 speakers, not expensive, not cheapest ones. And I orient on them when I do audio edit, levels, fade in\out etc

Yesterday I had a chance to watch my video from iphone with headsets pair of AKG headphones for 100$, and video sounded not great, some clips were too loud, some cuts was too sharp etc

Also I found I that I had Realtek Loudness normalization turned on for all that time on PC, It indeed normalized some volume levels I hear from PC, but turning it off did really changed a lot. Sound from PC is a lot better that from headphones.

What is the right environment to use when you do audio editing??

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rraud wrote on 10/29/2017, 11:17 AM

"What is the right environment to use when you do audio editing??"

Right environment?. Quality monitors designed for recording studios and such (and interface/soundcard) in an acoustically decent room. Most 'audio' folks have multiple sets of speakers, from really good full range pro monitors to really bad. TVs and headphones as well. Get it to sound decent on all. Good quality location audio is the starting point. Without that, your just polishing a turd. Learn what all the tools do and how to use them.

Posting some sample segments, would result in specific mix suggestions.

JMacSTL wrote on 10/30/2017, 11:38 AM

Agreed with @rraud, and adding this: the fact you're mixing through a cheap PC sound card can fool you, since you're not really hearing what Vegas is actually playing. Even a $69 USB sound card will sound much better than a built in soundcard; it's like trying to paint a scene looking through a crappy, dirty window.