How to Produce Professional Audio for Your Courses  ## Metadata - Author: [[LMScast with Chris Badgett]] - Full Title: How to Produce Professional Audio for Your Courses - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/8dc4a67b-d4aa-4dfd-96b2-8723c923294c ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **Teenage Audio Recording Experiment** - Ken started recording music as a teenager with basic equipment to impress girls. - He multi-tracked himself singing harmonies using cassette recorders despite poor recording quality. Transcript: Speaker 1 I think that it was really as simple and as primal as trying to impress girls when I was a teenager. I was a musician. So that was the thing that I could do well and play guitar and stuff. But I was poor like most teenagers. And so I couldn't afford to make recordings of myself that weren't really crappy recordings made on the little boom box, those little tiny round microphones that were built in to those Things. But that's how I started. And I wanted to sing harmony too. I wanted to do all the parts. And one of the songs that I recorded back when I was that age was a Beatles song called This Boy, which if you're familiar with it, it has three-part harmony all the way through the song. So I wondered how I could do that. And so I sang the guitar and sang on to one of the tapes, the cassette tape recorder. And then I borrowed my brother's boom box. And I played that cassette recorder back while I sang the second harmony. So all of that was going into the other cassette recorder with this awful hiss that was multiplied by bouncing it down to that. And then I had to do the third harmony. So I took that recording and played it back while I sang the third one. And yeah, it was God awful hiss in the background. But I had three-part harmony in a song ([Time 0:01:07](https://share.snipd.com/snip/98127afe-0a77-48b7-a059-9a4e81dc72d0)) - **From Air Force to Audio Course Creator** - After retiring from the Air Force, Ken got a voiceover gig from voices.com quickly and produced audio for others. - He transitioned to creating courses teaching people how to record audio at home after the client encouraged him. Transcript: Speaker 1 Okay, so the first one was a primal motivation called, I don't know, trying to impress girls. Then the second one to answer your question was another sort of primal motivation, which is laziness. So I retired from the Air Force. I was an Air Force officer and I served 20 years. And I retired from that in 2007. And of course, the natural thing is, well, I'm still young enough to get a job. And so my wife is expecting me to... And I did. I put out all the resumes and I did the interviews. And meanwhile, while that process was working itself out, I saw something online that talked about doing voiceovers. And I yelled it down and I'm like, hey, why can't we read audiobooks? We listened to them. Why can't we read them? We have all this recording equipment. Because I had recorded several albums by then. So we had a pretty good setup. And she said, no, keep on dreaming. But we actually landed a job doing some voiceover work. And then we sort of continued to do that. And through that, that was voices.com. So it's called a pay-to-play kind of way to do voiceovers instead of starting your own business. You just sign up and then you answer auditions. And somebody put a job out for doing an impression of caricatures, like some Bronx guy doing... Because he wanted to put third-party voices onto GPSs. Back before that was really popular on phones. These things, these little GPS units that used to carry around in your car before everyone had an iPhone and would have you. And you could choose voices on there and change accents and change gender. But they wanted to make these things funny and put characters that said stuff like, what the hell are you doing? You're off track, you know, that kind of thing. And I answered the ad and I got hired to do the job. And I did another job and another job for him. And he said, you know, yours, you get back with me quicker than anybody else that does this for me. And your audio sounds better. And what are you, you know, what are you doing? And I mentioned it to him. And he said, can I hire you to produce the audio for all these other guys? And so it basically started that way of me getting in with this guy. And then I learned that he started this, this is kind of a long rambling story, but it is kind of interesting. He started this company called Pigtones to do these third-party GPS voices as an internet marketing online business. And that was his jam. He was an online marketing guru, basically. And so he said, hey, how would you like to, you know, learn to make a living online doing an online business? We could do, we could do one together. And so I thought that, yeah, that's cool. I wouldn't have to work. Well, I wouldn't have to go to a job. What they don't tell you is when you work for yourself, you work at all the time. So, but anyway, I went and he, we talked it out and he said, how about you teach people how to do audio recording at home? Because you do that. So you know how to do it. And I thought, yeah, let's do that. So we brainstormed it and came up with a business and long story short, he kind of dropped out. He didn't, he wasn't really interested in doing it. And so I just took it all over and homebrew audio. And the idea was to teach people how to do it. And two ways to do that is to do online courses. ([Time 0:03:23](https://share.snipd.com/snip/deac0fa7-a07d-4cfa-b3ec-c9bb6a79347e)) - **Mic Placement is Crucial Advice** - Beginner course creators should use live instruction via Zoom before scaling to recorded videos. - Always use a microphone close to your mouth, even if it’s a simple phone or USB mic, to ensure clear audio quality. Transcript: Speaker 3 Okay. Speaker 1 The, the beginning course creator is probably going to start with a, with a pilot course, in which I learned through MiraC and Danny. And that is going to be a lot of live, live teaching to start. And the idea is just to see if you've got an audience and if your course idea is viable. So you don't have to really worry about it too much at that point because you're probably going to be on zoom or some other online conferencing tool in order to teach. But when you move into doing recorded, a scalable version of your course, you're probably going to want recorded videos. And this is where so many people get it wrong. It, it's not that, it's not that hard. Like you said, it can be a rabbit hole and a lot of people think it is. But the, the videos that I do for my courses are, I have a good camera right now. I'm just using a webcam for this, but I have a good camera that's back there with some lights that will, that will be right here. And this is pretty much what the, what the video looks like. It's very high quality, better lighting, but you know, I start this way and I talk and I say, all right, we're going to talk in this lesson. We're going to talk about X, Y, and Z. And I have this microphone right in front of my face when I make these videos. And then, and, okay, so before I go off down any rabbit holes, this doesn't have to be, this happens to be a good mic, a pretty good mic, because I use, you know, pretty high quality stuff When I'm recording music and, and voiceovers. But it doesn't have to be, it just has to be close to your mic, anything, even if you're using, if you're shooting your videos on an iPhone and it's three feet away from you, you can get another IPhone, borrow your spouses, your roommates or whatever iPhone, and put that on, on a, um, a little, what do you call them, um, tripod, you can put it on something like this, where is it? And, and just put like a little iPhone holder and, or you can put it on a mic stand, that'll actually be better because then you can tilt it up and have, and just have that, that iPhone there And use the notes recorder, you know, you don't have to spend any money assuming you have another phone in the house. The, the key thing is no matter what mic you're using, you got to get your mouth close to that mic. And the thing is, when you're doing video, um, it seems like, well, how in the world am I going to get my, my mouth close to the camera, which is four feet away? You know, like, I can't just walk up to it and put my face in the camera, you know? Um, so the idea there is you have to use a separate mic one. Um, like I'm doing, this isn't connected to, uh, or when I'm doing my, my course videos, this isn't connected to the camera. I do that separately. Um, or you can get a good mic that actually connects to the camera. So these days, most USB microphones can connect directly to your phone. So in that instance, I could get a microphone. Let me see. Where is it? I thought I had a handy. Um, things like a, like a blue Yeti. That's probably one of the most popular large USB microphones. And, uh, and you can plug that into your device and just record the audio, um, along, while you're recording the video, that can be your microphone instead of the phone. So, so the idea is that no matter what mic you're using, even if you're not even using a mic, if you're using another phone, or you could get a lapel mic, but you got it. You got to get a mic close to your mouth. And if I had one piece of advice to give to, um, to a beginner to a starting, uh, course creator for making their, their videos for the scalable version of their course, it is whatever device You're using get a mic close to your face. And when I say close, I'm talking, uh, it depends on how you're doing it, but it shouldn't be more than 18 inches max. And that's if you've got like, um, a microphone, just sort of just sort of out of frame right there. Um, or another phone. That's maybe 18 inches, 12 to 18 inches from your face, just pointing in. That's kind of how they do it in the movies, actually. Um, or if you don't care about having a mic in the frame, you don't, when you're obviously, and, and I don't, you know, here it is. So what all they need to see is a person who is engaging with them. They don't care. There's a microphone here. Um, and they just want the information. And so, if you can get, um, a good mic like this, you can record the audio separately and then join it up with the video after, ([Time 0:08:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/16ec1aa7-4342-45fa-b908-0c310bba2a76)) - **Upgrade Audio With Pro Gear** - For advanced creators, invest about $300 in a large-diaphragm condenser mic and an audio interface for professional audio. - Wireless lavalier mic systems like the Rode Wireless Go 2 let presenters move freely without visible microphones. Transcript: Speaker 1 And the second part was you said for more advanced people. So for, for more advanced people, I would say do it this way. Um, a lot of people don't like to have a mic in their frame. And I don't know why that's such an issue. Um, you know, there's a lot of people that want to stand up and they want to have like a green screen background or something and they want to be standing up and they want to show, um, you Know, at least like the upper half of their body from the waist up or something. Yeah, if you do that, then it's going to be hard to have a mic, um, like this, I get, you know, you could stand in front of a mic stand, but then it starts to, starts to look a little unusual At that point. So, uh, most people use Lavalier, you know, lapel mics. That's probably the best way to go at that point. If you want to stand up and you want to be, you know, show most of yourself, then, uh, then you should get, um, a wireless lapel, um, mic system. And I say wireless because, um, the wired ones are very difficult to work with or can be. And you can't get as far from your camera. So, just, just spring for a wireless one. There's a, um, the one I use, I don't have it with me right now, but it's a system from, from Road, same company that makes this mic called the Road Wireless Go 2. They've actually now got like three versions or four of that system. But, um, in the past, in order to buy a wireless system like that, you're talking four or $500 or more. Um, nowadays it's closer to sort of two, two 50 somewhere in there. And, um, and that gives you the ability to just clip this little thing on. It's not even a mic. I mean, it's not even a, you know, the little lapel mic, the little tiny microphone that sits right here. Um, it's not even that. It's just a, um, all right, hold on. Hold on. Speaker 3 This is what it is. Speaker 1 And it, uh, this isn't a, you know, I'm not necessarily a shill for Road. They're not paying me or anything. Um, but this is just a really good convenient thing. And, um, and it clips, it's got a little clip in the back like this. And you literally, there's the mic. And you just clip it onto your, I don't really have a, like, you'd want a button down shirt. For you, it would work perfect. You could just just plug it right in right there. Speaker 2 Um, I'd have to like pinch my shirt or something and stick it on like that. Speaker 1 But this is all you do. And the other piece of it is a receiver and that goes on your camera. But it also, this also goes straight into a computer. So it doesn't have to go into a camera. And that gives you flexibility. These things also record onto themselves. These are little mobile recorders. So it can act as a safety backup in case you did send case you, um, were too loud and distorted or something. Um, so, so it's, it's all kinds of flexible and easy to use. So if you have to stand up and be kind of far from your camera and you don't want a microphone in there, um, a wireless lapel system lapel mic system of some kind is my recommendation for People who want to do what you and I are doing. I recommend not using a USB mic. We're taught you, you said people who are more advanced course builders. And, and yeah, I'm about to actually test a new, um, a new USB mic that I might be changing my tune after this week on this advice. Um, but for right now, I say get yourself a, a good large diaphragm condenser microphone that goes into a, I got a spare one. Into an interface box. See how dusty that is, because I'm not actually using it at the moment. Um, so the microphone gets plugged into here. And then by USB, this just goes out and plugs into your computer. And this gives you high quality audio, very high quality, like professional quality audio coming from a professional quality mic. And that's the way that I recommend, um, for more advanced creators. That cost is going to be the mic that I usually recommend. It's, it's one of the more affordable ones, but it's still very good. It's about $150. An audio technical one. And, um, in one of these, um, you can get for about $100. 110 maybe, um, depends on which one you get. I usually use a focus right scarlet. Um, the focus right scarlet solo, I think is like $110. Something like that. So you're talking $280 or so. So my advice to advance, um, course creators ([Time 0:13:46](https://share.snipd.com/snip/9505c3a0-e78a-4e85-b440-8ca02a46744f)) - **Best Editing Software and Plugins** - Use Reaper for audio editing due to its professional features and low cost. - Use Camtasia (PC) or ScreenFlow (Mac) to edit video and sync external audio; also use a dereverb plugin to improve home recordings. Transcript: Speaker 1 Itself? Audio by itself. I like Reaper for that. And two reasons. One is it's just about as good as Pro Tools. In my opinion, I can't think of anything that I can't do with it that Pro Tools can do, but it's also super inexpensive. It's $60 if you want to use the, uh, personal use license. And what, what they say is that if you start to make money with it, then it's, uh, it's, they recommend that you go up to the professional commercial license, which is $220. But, um, that's all on the honor system. The licenses are all the same. There's no crippled functionality. There's no, you know, you can use it for 60 days. I mean, there is a trial and you can use it for 60 days, but they'll, they won't stop after 60 days. So that's what they're an awesome company and they're really, really good with that kind of thing. But anyway, Reaper is the software that I recommend using for most of the editing of the audio. And for the video, I, uh, I recommend, if you're doing video, I use Camtasia because I'm on a PC system. You can use Camtasia on a Mac or a PC. Um, and that, that lets you do, oh my God, that is so, so amazing for creating courses. It's, um, do you, um, I don't know what, what you use, for it's great for screen capture stuff. So I should, I mean, it's great for everything. You can do any kind of video. It doesn't have to be screen capture, but that's kind of what it was originally designed to do. And then you can take outside audio and sync it up in nothing flat. I'm doing that. And so, um, those are the two biggies. I also recommend one plugin. I mean, there, there's, we can again get into a long list of things that, that I could recommend, but if you're just going to get one plugin for Reaper, it has a lot of its own built in stuff. You don't need to buy third party, um, plugins for it necessarily, but get yourself a reverb removal plugin. I used to say, like in this room, I've got these, um, acoustic absorbing, uh, phone panels, and that helps cut down on that room echo that is so common for audio that's recorded at home. But nowadays, the reverb removal, uh, edit, um, is so amazingly good that, that really, you can kind of wait, um, on getting, or you might never even need to get the acoustic foam in your Room, um, because this stuff is so good. And there is one again, no affiliation at all, but it's called D-verb rate three by a company called Acon. Um, and, uh, there's another, um, suite of editing tools and they have a D-reverb tool in it. And that one is called, uh, Isotope RX for audio editing. It cleans up audio. Um, you can remove peepops and, uh, and mouth clicks and, uh, noise and I mean, it's, it's, it's pretty cool, but it has a D-reverb in it. And that's the, that's the key thing I'm getting at is, um, without talking about doing any more editing, um, that, that I think is those three things have, have either, um, for video, Camtasia, um, or ScreenFlow if you're on a Mac and then Reaper for the audio and, uh, and a plugin, a D, a D-reverb plugin. That's awesome. ([Time 0:19:27](https://share.snipd.com/snip/cc29c051-c6c0-43f1-8587-b1fe57d6926a)) - **Mind Mapping for Course Design** - Use a mind map to organize course content flexibly instead of a strict outline. - Assign colors or marks to track video completion and keep course creation manageable. Transcript: Speaker 1 Yeah, I, um, used something, especially on this last course, it was amazingly helpful. Was a mind map. A lot of people tell you to, to outline your course and, you know, you can use any number of tools for that, but I found that to not be very helpful from, you know, different people process Information differently. And so for me looking at something like a mind map where I could, where I could add anything and stick it in anywhere I wanted as far as sequence was concerned, um, that that was super helpful. So I, I went in and I just started putting bubbles in for everything that I wanted to teach, every topic. And then if that seemed to be part of a bigger topic, you know, I could always move things around and have that bigger topic be the main module, kind of how it ended up being, but I couldn't Have done that with a standard outline. So, so that was the first thing. Once I got all that set up, I did it to where, you know, you go down one side, I don't know if we're familiar with mind maps, but you go down one side, I went down one side and then I went down The other side for my sequence. And whenever I finished a video, I would color that bubble red and put a big green, no, actually let me back up. Whenever I finished a video, I would put a big green checkmark on that bubble. And because there were main modules and then there were topics and then there were subtopics and everything that branched out, I decided that not that you can't make everyone its own Video. So I tried to pack, you know, everything in that logically made sense into one video, not letting any video be more than 10 minutes, if possible. And anything that needed to be a video was red. So I could look at my mind map and go, okay, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, there's all the red bubbles, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I have to do 32 red bubbles. So I'm going to start at the top and I'm just going to, you know, mark these bubbles off as I finish them. And that really, for me, was amazingly helpful. I could look at it and go, all right, green checkmarks, done, done, done, done, done. How many do I have left? And I would make a separate bubble that said you have 13 more videos to do, you know, and that is how I went through and finished my courses. And then once they ([Time 0:24:15](https://share.snipd.com/snip/2cfe7ab2-3402-4c30-91b4-7b395d4236a8)) - **Teleprompters and Separate Audio Recording** - Use a teleprompter to deliver polished, tight videos without excessive ums and ahs. - Record audio separately via Reaper, then sync and replace camera audio in video editing for professional sound. Transcript: Speaker 1 Teleprompter. Okay. Is my, when I'm on screen like this, I tend to, and you've probably noticed in this interview, I tend to go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, oh, and another thing, blah, blah, blah, And um, um, um, um, um, um, and it's, uh, you don't want to watch, first of all, it's a waste of people's time. If they paid for a course to watch me stumble over my words and, and, oh, you know, obviously not be prepared, it won't look professional like you're talking about. Um, so I use, uh, on my camera, um, a, uh, that might be part of the list of, of tech that you want to have me recommend, but it is a, this is it right here. And that just, I have a, um, it's like a DSLR camera. Um, uh, Lumix G7. It's technically mirrorless. But anyway, this, this slides over, over the, um, what do we call it, uh, lens, little round thing. And then I have an app on here that does the teleprompting. And I just stick this inside of the teleprompter. And, uh, and then that scrolls while I'm, while I'm doing, uh, the, the actual video. And then there's a remote that comes with it that you can stop and start it. I don't like, I don't like it going because I might, you know, need to, I don't like it going automatically because it might get too far ahead or too fast or too slow or whatever. And I've tried that. That's a huge pain in the butt to try to, um, set it automatically and then have it go and you're like, wait, wait, wait, it's going too fast. Then it's going too slow. And so I use this and I just zip and stop and then zip and stop and zip and stop. So manual control over where that text is. But anyway, I write that stuff in Evernote, um, on my, on my computer, which is a cloud-based, uh, note app. And that's on my phone too. So once I write it on the computer, I got the script done. And now it's on my phone. I copy and paste it into this is called the parrot podcaster, by the way. Notice I'm doing a lot of peepops. Um, parrot podcaster, and there's other versions of these, but that has an app that, that lives on your phone and then you can drop the script in there and then it will reverse it backwards So that you can slip it underneath. And then I'm just looking right at my screen and I'm reading off of, uh, I'm reading the teleprompter, reading my script. And that is, that is a talent in and of itself that I, it took me years, literally, to, to wonder why I was, I was looking at the camera going. Yeah. Well, I mean, well done. It was very good. And the thing was, and I was like, oh my God, that's horrible. I'm, you know, I look like I'm a deer in the headlights. Uh, and, and it's just not animated and I'm not engaging at all. I wouldn't watch me. So it takes a lot of practice to, to look at a teleprompter to get the text right so that you make a nice snappy, quick, tight video that doesn't have a lot of um, zenaz in it, it gets a point Across very quickly. But that you do it in an engaging way. So I practice the script and then I look at it and, and I, I pretend that it's not even there, um, as much as I can. So you're looking at text, but you also have to remember that there's a camera lens behind it and that you're actually talking to people, you know, so, um, you know, it took me a while to Learn. I had to almost force myself. In fact, I do. Before I hit record on my camera, I go, you know, because otherwise I'll be like this. Hey, um, today we're going to talk about compression, which really is not as hard of thing as it seems. I mean, I literally had videos that looked like that and I was like, I gotta redo it. So, um, teleprompter, but make sure that you're engaging with it. That helps it to be professional and tight. Uh, and then you record the audio separately into Reaper while I'm doing that. So the camera's recording the audio and then I'm recording into Reaper just like this onto my computer. And then after I joined them up in Camtasia, which you could do in ScreenFlow the same way. As far as the screen capture part, where I'm actually not on camera, um, I, I kinda just let that go. Um, I'll be explaining something and I'll go, you know, that was terrible. I went, um, uh, what's the word? Uh, and so I will snap my fingers and start that thought over again and, and demonstrate the thing until, until I get it to, to where, you know, it, it didn't have a lot of idiocy and repetition Behind it. And I cut all that stuff out in the editing process. But I add the audio in before I do any cutting. That's pretty important piece there. So, warts and all before I make any improvements to the audio, I will sync that audio. So you've got your, um, Camtasia or ScreenFlow or whatever it is, whatever video program you're using. And you've got all of your audio that the camera recorded down one track. Then, um, I, I bring in the audio that I saved that I recorded in Reaper. It's the same, um, bit, you know, it's the same words and everything because it recorded the exact same thing. So I will stick that underneath. And it's very easy just to cite it, you know, just zoom in and go and, and sync it up, uh, visually, you can tell. Um, once that is synced up, I delete the old audio. Then I cut out, you know, I go in and do all the slicing and dicing. I cut out the bad takes. I cut out the hesitations. I cut out the extra time and all of that. And then I export ([Time 0:28:58](https://share.snipd.com/snip/50d54be7-8f64-4a83-b419-2ca3594f059d)) - **Wireless Lav Mics for Action Videos** - For action or movement-heavy courses like yoga or dance, use a wireless lavalier mic clipped to your clothing. - These portable systems record audio reliably even when moving around or outdoors. Transcript: Speaker 2 To make good audio, but also still be able to move around pretty well? Is it the, it's the lapel mic situation? Speaker 1 Yes, I was just looking at a review, I did a review of it, but I was just looking at a YouTube review of this system yesterday. And one of the things they did was they had a guy on a motorcycle with a, I don't know how he mounted, I guess he had a GoPro or something. And he was using this to record the audio. And he was talking in as he was going 70 miles an hour down a highway going, Hey, see, and this is me talking while I'm writing a frickin motorcycle, you don't get much more, you know, where You can't pay attention to the tech than this, you know, and, and so basically you could either, I don't use GoPro. So I don't know if you can connect an external mic directly to it, but it doesn't matter, because these things record audio right on them. So you can record audio onto this clipped right here while you're writing a motorcycle teaching yoga, dancing, I plan to do a dance demo actually at my wife and I did swing dancing for Many years, but I want to show people how to do audio on video in several different situations and how to get the mic close to your body. And in order to demonstrate an action video like that, it could be outside, could be in a yoga studio, like you say, that's very echo-y and what have you, there might be traffic, there Might be other people around. Getting a mic close to your your mouth helps with all of that. And and this is a great way to do it. If you're wearing a T-shirt or something, you see, I can still do it, I can clip it to my shirt by folding it over, but it kind of it's kind of wobbles, you know, it's kind of heavy and unwieldy. Some people actually clip it inside, so it's against their body. And and that way it's a little more stable. But yeah, I could I could definitely Lindy Hop with this thing on. No problem. If you have partner dancing, that might it might like ruffle and bump and whatever get in the way. So you might want to keep that in mind when you're when you're demonstrating that kind of stuff. But yeah, that's really the answer. When you have to move around a lot, and you're doing some some action, you need a wireless, definitely has to be wireless in that situation. Either lapel situation, it either looks like this, or you know, the traditional traditional little that I had one up here, you know, little everyone knows what that look like, little Lapel mics that just sort of their little black things with little little foam hats on that that's it right here. They're much lighter weight, and you can plug those right into here. So if you want if you wanted, if this thing is a little too one-wheeledy, you can get yourself a road makes a a lav lavalier mic that you can clip here that's much lighter weight. And then just clip this to your waistband or stick it in your pocket or whatever and plug it into there. So those are that would ([Time 0:36:33](https://share.snipd.com/snip/e92a96e7-23c4-43e0-af8c-ecd499a7f650)) - **Manage Background Noise Effectively** - To reduce background noise, close doors and keep the mic close to your mouth. - Use noise reduction software by sampling repetitive noises to remove them in editing. Transcript: Speaker 2 To prevent background noise, whether it's, you know, family, animals, urban noise, and maybe let's just say our our office or home or whatever, we just can't quite keep it quiet. So what can we do to help with the background noise and manage it besides obviously solving the source of the noise? Speaker 1 Besides, oh yeah, that's obviously the first step. It depends on where you are, because if you're in a gym, if you're if you're teaching people how to do fitness stuff in a in a gym that's being used by other people, there's obviously not A lot you can do. If you're at home, and and it's the it's leaf blower time, which drives me crazy, or there's construction going on or motorcycle driving by or whatever, or there's stuff the family's Doing and you really need to get the video done now, but you really don't want to tell them to stop doing what they're doing. The best advice to prevent getting that recorded in the first place is just to try to close the door, close their door, and then close your door. I mean, that's obvious. But if it if you can wait until the noise isn't there, but if you can't, like I said, getting your mouth close to the microphone is going to be your first line of defense for all of this stuff For any kind of noise actually. And then the when you when you have pauses in between your phrases, you'll hear that whatever it is going on the TV or the music my wife's listening to, or if she's singing along or doing Whatever downstairs, that sometimes gets recorded. And it usually you can't really hear it very much when I'm talking, but in the breaks in between, you can. And so that's a matter of editing it out after the fact. So if you get your mouth close to the mic, you probably won't have to worry about the noise while you're talking. And in the spaces where you're not talking, you can edit it out just by silencing the stuff in between. Now, there's one other situation and that is, or one other thing you can do. I have a post on this with a morning dove. There was a morning dove right outside my window with that. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And I was like, oh, my God, I don't want to kill the bird. But what I was able to do was sample that. So I recorded the morning dove all by itself. So I had its voice on my on my recording software. And then I fed that with all noise reduction software, you have to feed it. You have to train it what noise is. So it knows what to know what to remove. I was able to train. It was an Adobe audition. I told it, all right, this is what noise sounds like. This is the sample of noise. Now remove this from my entire file. And it did. It removed only that. Now that works really, really well if the frequency is different because I have a man's voice. Actually, my voice is people say, ma'am, when I talk on the phone more often than I would have thought. But anyway, there's a big difference between the frequency of my voice and the, so it's easier to remove that without affecting my voice. So the more different sound is from your voice, the easier it is to remove by using noise reduction software. And if it's something that's kind of in the same register as your voice, yeah, in my case, I have to sometimes do multiple takes to try to find a time when there isn't that noise. And yeah, that's a tough nut. That's a really hard thing, you know, if especially if you're making videos. But if, you know, if I really, really, really, a, had to get the video done now, and b, could not prevent the noise from happening in the house for whatever reason, I would go into my closet With my laptop. I could bring my camera to I have a pretty big walk-in closet downstairs. And that has a lot of clothing hanging up. And so that helps to, to block out a lot of noise that's coming from, from inside the house. And that's a last resort. But it is something I could do. And it's something anyone could do. I don't recommend recording in a closet normally. But, but if you have a walk-in closet or closet, it's big enough to get in there with a, with a laptop and a camera. That'd be my ([Time 0:40:03](https://share.snipd.com/snip/a4947d10-7b4e-4e36-b241-7c2a0e91692c))