What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
Lesson 8 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
Lesson 8 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Lesson Info
8. What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
Lessons
Introduction and Welcome to this Course
00:50 2Listen to your Recording Environment
03:43 3Room Treatment Tips
03:07 4Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones
02:35 5Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
02:55 6Recommended Budget Level Mics
02:35 7Microphone Audio Comparisons
05:53 8What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
01:48Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces
01:35 10Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces
01:46 11My Thoughts on USB Microphones
00:45 12Microphone Positioning and Accessories
04:09 13Essential Microphone Polar Patterns
03:17 14Recommended Monitors and Headphones
03:55 15Other Audio Monitoring Tips
02:41 16Introduction to Capturing Audio
00:18 17Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs
06:28 18A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders
02:39 19Audacity Introduction
00:45 20Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity
03:49 21How to Record Audio into Audacity
02:54 22Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save
04:15 23How to Export Audio out of Audacity
03:37 24Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity
08:07 25Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
03:17 26Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity
03:06 27Removing Background Noise Introduction
02:48 28How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity
12:54 29How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity
11:15 30Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction
02:32 31A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect
10:35 32A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect
11:21 33How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity
03:23 34Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro
06:06 35Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro
03:36 36Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin
11:08 37Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples
15:56 38Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2
11:31 39Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features
05:14 40Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise
09:24 41Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb
06:25 42Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction
02:47 43Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio
04:16 44Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain
03:15 45Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example
06:30 46How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
12:00 47How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
06:48 48How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar
08:28 49Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment
07:16 50Thanks and Bye
00:12Lesson Info
What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
OK. So now we're going to be looking at audio interfaces and you may be asking what is an audio interface and why is it useful? And I'll be explaining this in this video. So an audio interface firstly is an analog to digital converter. So you have your microphone, which is an analog signal, you need to get this into your computer. So what an audio interface does is it's essentially a box that converts this analog signal into a digital signal. So you can record audio into your computer. An audio interface also has preamps. So the signal you get from your microphone is very quiet, you need an amplifier to turn this up. So your audio interface will have dials on there which allows you to actually amplify the microphone and make it loud enough. So it's at a suitable level for recording audio and an audio interface allows you to do this. And the other thing is a digital to analog converter. So an audio interface, it converts the analog signal to digital, but then you want to hear that signa...
l back from your computer. So you convert a digital signal from your computer into analog signal, which means you can plug speakers or monitors into your audio interface or headphones. So that is the uses for an audio interface. The first one analog digital converter. So the alog from your microphone into your computer, which is digital when need to convert it audio interface allows you to do that preamp or an amplifier for your microphones. Microphone has a low signal. You need to increase it. Your audio interface allows you to increase it with a preamp. And uh the third one is a digital to analog converter. So you have the digital signal from your computer, you wanna listen to it back. So you can uh yeah convert that digital signal to an analog signal. So you can listen to it with your speakers or your headphones. So you can of course plug uh headphones into your computer via the headphone jack, but it often times it will sound better and you have dedicated outputs if you use an audio interface.
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