I totally think that my diet impacts my hearing , it is crazy !

If I could add one thing - you accommodate to a sound you work on. Pretty common issue during mixing. Sometimes you need to take a break and "look" on your project with a fresh ear to catch something which you would rather not hear doing all the stuff at once. Doesn't necessary mean you need a year, just a reasonable break. But yeah, the sound you make, change over the years. It's also constant pursuit for doing thing better and better. But our point of view changes as well

Our brains are polluted with an excessive amount of artificial, high-intensity sounds. Two hours in the forest and my hearing gets appropriate perspective, other senses too.

"then I come back to it a month later and it sounds shrill and annoying" Yeah thats why its good practice to take short breaks where you can. To "rest your ears". It sounds counter productive but it helps your ears re-adjust to what you are listening to. make a coffee, walk around for 5 mins, anything that gets you away from over listening to something often helps. But unfortunately if you have a tight deadline, that can be hard to do.

You only need ear cleaning every 6 months.

Is it a ridiculous idea to ask you if we can agree that this audio programme is very similar to talk radio and also that eadio sound has been/is the reference point for professional quality that doesn't induce ear fatigue due to harsh highs and uncontrolled lows? Please compare this to BBC news or german or danish talk radio and you'll hear for yourself that beautifully balanced sound made to sound good across many speakers. I respect and like Markus and also buy several of the supplements he sells. This post-processing however, sounds harsh across all systems, although intelligible.

@@alexalexxis170 Most radio jockeys don't do much processing, maybe a single channel strip sometimes or nothing at all. The radio sound is mostly a combination of the multiband limiter such as the "Orban Optomod" that is used to feed the tower that really gives radio its sound. 90% of people are watching with their phone or their iPad so you have to make the proper adjustments to compensate for that.

@@alexalexxis170 Personally, I wouldn't be caught dead listening to BBC News, and yo no hablo Germanio or Denmarkio.

I would like to learn more about cleaning up the background. What plugins you like, what you listen for and how you clean up the background. Knowing what you do gives me more information that what I have now.

I like to splain 😊

Glad you enjoyed it!

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@@MarkusPix lol

I've jalsp ust ordered a used nx mini and I bought a zoom q2n4k after watching!

I am using Zoom H5 with its Y mic for years now - great sound + it has 2x XLR inputs.

Used to work with a director whose fa favourite phrase was “we’ll fix it in post”. Do it right on set/location or you will waste a lot of time later. Be a pro.

Great to hear!

On the other hand, they already made perfectly good audio recordings 90 to 100 years ago.

It's more than just EQ. Each track is a mixture of different types of compression and other various effects, each one on their own has its own unique personality just like the many facets of a person, so I choose how much of each I want to use in each video to elicit different emotions and feelings.

@@MarkusPixah, thank you for clarifying. Very cool approach. I’ve watched several of your videos over the past couple days and you produce a great sound!

I'm glad someone understands :-)

@@MarkusPix yes Markus, from the very beginning of this video I want to put my comment right away but I waited till the end. Peace to you Markus!

@@MarkusPix I do as well Markus.. Should have told them to turn it to 11 .. 🐱 .. I started taking photos with a 127 film camera and borrowed a clockwork standard 8 .. everything had to be perfect... In the 80's I got to use a Beta Max 'portacam' Ha! that lot was heavy carrying a video recorder at my side and camera on my shoulder and walking around like someone in a Kung Fu film invariably over rough terrain or simple things like steps backwards.. meanwhile keeping the audio good.. and not pointing the camera into the Sun like an Astronaut did on the Moon, though the Sun is a bit on the bright side there and the soil is highly reflective a mix of silica and iron that hasn't oxidised. Then cameras as you know got smaller and lighter and recording on SD etc.. I have a Nikon L100 which I love.. for photos, bought a ACT74A which has EIS which I rarely use.. and on the list from your recommendation and now is cheaper as it's an older model the V800 and yes it has mic jack's (stereo) just because it will be less work editing.. Cut, Splice, Fade, Done! Though keyframes are fun... but I will do separate audio as well.. and possibly mix them.. I still don't use picture or audio manipulation.. Thanks about the -3.. The main rule is get it the best you can in the can... BTW... Have you thought of getting longer leads for your computer's and putting them where you can't hear them... Thanks for everything.. Mark and Bella 🐈

I use Dialog Isolate all the time. It's also in RX7, been there for a couple years. It works great but it's not a magic bullet though. If you listen closely, there are still some background frequencies mixed in the with words, just not between the words. But it does work very well.

@@MarkusPix: I didn't realize RX7 had the isolate feature, something about it is supposed to be special in RX9. Anyway, if the audio is really bad and the program has to work really hard to clean it up, then yes, there are a bunch of artifacts left behind. Not a "magic bullet" or fix all, but it has saved some stuff I though to be totally unusable. I'll take a little noise in the form of artifacts if I can eliminate a lot of noise from dogs and traffic. Thanks again Markus. I/we appreciate what you do. Cheers man 🍻

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Thank you

Portugal? Do you know Liz Baun? 😎

@@weedeeohguy if you mean Lisboa or Lisbon, yes, I do. I live 20 min from it.

Thanks Muddy

This comment is exactly what I was thinking. I want to learn. But we learn from what others do. Your audio is fantastic. I record good audio, but like what your audio sounds like. I also would like an in depth example of how you work with a project. I didn't want a magic one button solution. What I want is to know what you do to process your audio. You don't need to give me the numbers, but explain what the settings do and why you use them. I love your audio series and I understand that it is all the elements that make good audio. But one element you use is post processing. Knowing what plugins you like and your process is a great foundation to build upon. BTW, I listen to your audio on a pair of desktop computer speakers. Thanks.

@@sidestreetvideoproduction7278 One thing I think he is trying to convey is exactly what he said, but it might be stated a little harshly in this video. I have watched like 30 long audio processing videos that go over livestream, podcasts, voiceover, and KZfaq videos and they are ALL DIFFERENT! And they all use totally different brands of microphones, some use usb, some use Xlr with an interface, and they all use microphones with different pickup patterns in totally different rooms and environments. Some are live-streaming them gaming in their bedroom and others are in totally sound treated professional recording booths or rooms. I mean it sounds curt, but what he said is totally true. Each person’s voice sounds totally different, each microphone sounds totally different with each voice, each room, and each project has totally different needs. You EXPECT compression on a KZfaq video and you AVOID compression for voice over work because that’s not your job, and indoors and outdoors and live versus mastering prerecorded tracks are all totally different project to project or voice to voice. So I actually think the philosophy of tinkering he just conveyed IS the secret to good audio. Because he had hundreds of microphones and audio recorders and cameras and cables and EVERY single recording needs a TOTALLY different approach to the audio recording and the post production. Even he makes MULTIPLE mixes from multiple microphones and blends that to get his final tracks. So I actually understand why he said what he said, although I also understand wanting more. But how could he possibly cater a lesson to any particular set up if everyone has different equipment, projects, and voices? He has an artistic style not a technical technique to teach, because he goes by ear. I guess everyone would have to play with their own voice and equipment at different times of day to get their voice and settings locked in, but the next project would still need its own personal attention and a different mix.

Well put. Thank you. 👃

Lol same 😂😂😂

Content is king. I'm a high-functioning autistic and retired software engineer. My voice is very flat -- I sound more like a Vulcan, than Mr. Spock. During my career, if I spoke to a group, some people would think I was a great speaker and others heard me as horribly boring. Here is the difference -- a motivated listener is tuned into content, where an unmotivated listener expects to be entertained beyond the content. When I say "motivated," I mean they have a personal interest in the information presented. A truly interested audience will listen through the equipment and hear the message. Said another way, audiophiles listen to equipment, while music lovers listen to the music. If people never complain about your audio, then you are providing value to a motivated audience. And remember, your phone microphone and audio processing is optimized for voice communication. A lot of successful content creators use a smart phone and that's it.

I've used an S9 in many of my videos, but most of them really don't turn out that great audio-wise. Most of the mids sound like they're underwater (to me) through the recording, but in-person it sounds great, even with my crude EQ settings. There's no commentary in any of my videos, just purely music played back through various speakers in a couple positionings. Then again I've always used the internal mics and the AGC was never that great in the first place. I just got a Sony xperia 1 III and it seems like it's going to sound much better than the S9.

Thing is though, most people won’t complain about the audio if it’s terrible, they’ll just stop watching.

Glad you like them!