If the sound for your video is a little on the noisy side, you can clean it up using the free audio editing app Audacity. Audacity comes with a noise reduction plugin that makes it quick and easy to cut back the noise so that your audience can focus on your story or message. Here’s a very quick look at how to use the noise reduction effect in Audacity.

If you’d like to improve your sound recording skills for film, please have a look at our Sound Recording for Video course over at http://school.learnlightandsound.com

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Electrovoice RE20 (Microphone for Tutorial)

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Focusrite Safire Pro 24 (Microphone Preamp and Audio Interface - Plug the mic into this to record to computer)

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Music copyright Curtis Judd 2012

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