Thanks for the kind words! :)

Thanks for watching Nathan, absolutely love what you do and definitely inspired by your daily recordings on KZfaq! Also, I love the creativity with which you approach creating new tools like the foley table and the squeak box.

Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it! :)

Thank you so much! :D

Thank you for the kind words, means a lot!

Absolutely! I'll tell you from personal experience that a lot of times sounds that have been recorded on a phone have made it into big games and films!

Thanks Ross! Greatly appreciate the kind words.

Thanks Richard and really glad to hear that! :D

Hello fellow Greg! :)

Definitely do and thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot! :)

Thanks a lot really appreciate it!

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Thanks for the question! It depends what you prefer doing lots of people will import the audio files after each recording session, name them and add metadata others will batch this process and wait until they have lots of files and do them all at once. I prefer the second method. The basic process is importing the files into your DAW or library manager. Cleaning them up with EQ and other plugins like the iZotope RX. This cleanup process is basically just removing any unwanted noises like birds in the background or low rumbles. Then I would export the recordings and add the correct title and metadata tags adhering to the UCS (Universal Category System). There is a great video on this by Freetousesounds if you type into KZfaq: How to manage your sound library and metadata you should find it. I might do a video about this in the future but I hope this answer was helpful for the time being.

@@GameAudioAnalysis Thank you for your detailed and clear explanation!

@@ozo1489 Glad, I could help!

Vielen Dank! :)

I'm a bit of an impostor ^^ I was born and raised in Austria and german is infact my first language however, I was brought up bilingually (American english) but have been living in the UK for 5+ years. In that time the american has been watered down quite a bit and some british influence has made its way into my pronounciation and vocabulary.

I personally don't use RX either, I usually just use a little bit of EQ and compression to clean up the sounds. Make sure that you are getting the best out of your source material by having the fundamentals right: gainstaging, mic placement So how loud you turn up your input and how close you are to the source, the closer you get. If there are sounds that are unavoidable to get traffic or birds on then try to record at night if you can as it will be the most quiet time of the day.

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@@GameAudioAnalysis Thanks very much.

I personally don't worry too much about reaching a specific number for loudness. The main thing is that it sounds good and the gain staging during the recording was correct which means that we will have a clean recording with a low noise floor. If that is the case then you can very easily increase or decrease the volume to your liking. What I recommend doing if you are experiencing lots of noise when turning up the sound is to record your source material on multiple different gain settings and choose the best ones. Then use something like RX from iZotope or similar denoising tools to get rid of any additional noise. That way you will have clean recordings that you can turn up or down depending on your taste and what is needed for the mix. As for commercial libraries I'm not actually entirely sure. There are a couple of different standards I believe but once again the main thing is clean recordings and a good balance (not too quiet and not too loud).

@@GameAudioAnalysis Thanka for the advice. I’ve started getting real basic recordings through my phone (unfortunately I don’t currently have a field recorder) and so I’ve been trying to research and see what I can do with what I have.

I would recommend you get a little tripod. Just make sure that that tripod can screw on to the Zoom h1n :)

For recording I don't have a specific target, I just make sure the gain staging is good and later in the DAW I will then edit it and clean it up and master it.

@@GameAudioAnalysis do you usually make the use of noise gates for removing unwanted noises? I found them extremely helpful one of these days, since i do not have any treatment in my room

@@julioCesar-lb6un I don't really use noisegates because if the sounds aren't transient heavy the noisegate will have a hard time finding when to open and close and some recordings can be very dynamic. I tend to manually edit the files after recording and get rid of any unwanted noise.

@@GameAudioAnalysis understandable, manual automation can play a huge role, thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot! Better late then never ;)

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