For a last week I've edited and mixed our brand new podcast called Let me in UX (hosted in Polish). Because I use a nice, hip-hop background music as an intro and outro I wanted this to blend nicely with my voice, when I introduce the following episode's topic.
I'd learnt at Pluralsight course by Thomas Winkley how to make a nice adjustments by using equalizer, but each time I wanted to use that knowledge, I would head to pluralsight, log in (if necessary), open a lesson and look up the values. So after another time, I decided to create this short blog post, so I don't need to go through that again. And perhaps someone else can benefit of that.
According to the lesson, to mix human voice with some music you should:
- boost human voice at 320Hz and 2600Hz
- lower music sound gain at about 250Hz and 2000Hz
That should make different channels nicely blend with one another. I cannot explain why it works, but that's fine for me for now.
Edit [2020-08-15]
I realized, that I can make presets in DaVinci Resolve 16, which I'm using to edit each episode.
Edit [2020-09-10]
Today I found this much more detailed youtube video:
Intakes from the video:
- for male voice boost by 3dB from 65Hz to 100Hz and more than 12kHz
- for female voice boost by 3dB from 140hz to 180Hz and more than 12khz