How to Get Better Cinematic Audio | 4 Crucial Sound Tips

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In today's episode of Four Minute Film School, production sound mixer Andrew Jones walks us through four cinematic sound tips that you can use in your next film, documentary, vlog, or narrative production to up your sound quality!
Sound mixing can make or break a film. You can have the highest quality camera, amazing talent, and a perfect screenplay, but if your sound design is terrible, your film will be terrible!
Luckily, these four cinematic sound hacks will help up your audio game and your overall production quality. These tips include capturing wild sounds (on-set foley), getting clean audio takes with your actors (your editor will thank you), using boom perspective (enhance your narrative), and using sound effects.
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Summary:
Location sound mixer Andrew Jones breaks down four cinematic audio hacks that can be used by sound mixers at all levels. Use these sound tips in your vlog, short film, or documentary to make your overall footage more cinematic. Aputure's KZbin channel provides free high quality cinematography, lighting, and filmmaking educational content to help you take your film projects to the next level.
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[@aputurelighting]

What's your best sound tip?

[@alexgrant311]

Aputure hiring a sound person for projects

[@xavealda3255]

is that sara dietschy?

[@poppijoni]

To get clean audio you need three things: good mic placement, clean preamps on your audio recorder and a mic with low noise. Even the most expensive recorder will give bad results if you have a hissy mic, and vice versa. So have your mic and recorder on the same level of quality, they're equally important. Good mic placement is free so remember that always, no matter what equipment you usr ;) (Oh, there is a fourth thing: do your best to cancel out all the noise you don't want to hear.)

[@praveensemwal2585]

Sound effects

[@Usmanislam]

Aputure 1st

[@MarianoRodriguez]

TIP: If the sound guy says "do it again", do it again. Trust the guy with the headphones.

[@HikingWithCooper]

And also TELL your sound guy to tell you to do it again. Sound guys so often act like whipping boys. No, they are half of the movie. Make sure they know that.

[@albrightfilms994]

The best part of this video is that the makers had the sense to REVIEW and SUMMARIZE. This is a basic teaching technique that 99 out of 100 videos forget to employ. Good work boys!

[@RudyAyoub]

Boom operator in thumbnail strong af holding that shit with one hand

[@Readwithsumit]

😂😂😂

[@isyrafnajmuddin911]

hey shithead

[@vincemanueleshow]

why tf are you here Rudy

[@ifoundelijah]

🤣🤣

[@daveassender1099]

I think you nailed the top 4, but perhaps a tip in post: use a bit of compression in dialogue and if still need to separate dialogue from ambient & effects, make sure they aren't sharing all the same frequencies so much, give them a little different EQ for further separation

[@MahabubMithun]

A pro tip from a real audio engineer. Thanks a lot.

[@lorenzomorganjr.6585]

Don't forget to record a track of "room tone" for every film scene area.

[@toasty973]

holy crap I've been trying to figure how you shoot and edit scenes and still have the recorded sound consistent afterwards, and I think this is what I was wondering. Thank you!!

[@BestYouTubeVids123]

Ambience 👍

[@Marsattacks69]

Is this not tip 3...?

[@lorenzomorganjr.6585]

@@Marsattacks69 Just an important reminder for those who may have missed the "tip".

[@bruhdabones]

Yeah, that’s tip 3

[@DavidGriffin]

Y'all need to make a sound subscription course... It needs to be serious, deep and advanced.

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[@tjkramer3180]

That first tip really helped! I have access to a sound effects library but I always felt like it was unprofessional or like I was cheating when I used it & as if I wasn’t a professional filmmaker. That helped a lot!

[@sicolara]

The best tip is to convince production to make the film in locations where undesired noises can be controlled.

[@KaceyBakerFilms]

Miss this guy. Loved those days.

[@tempestfilmsph]

it would be great if you added examples from films to better illustrate your points on what should be "cinematic" audio.

[@jennyluvsfood]

Best sound tip: use TWO sources ...ie two lapels or one lapel and one boomed ....if you don't get the audio, you're screwed :)

[@SaugaSen]

I wish there was more examples of the audio when you explained it.. like use actual audio as the example

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Turn off air conditioning if the vent is near your actors.

[@mattmiller1585]

You aren't wrong, but damn this sucks in Texas in July!!! lol!!!

[@cj64films]

matt miller lol I completely agree

[@SoundSpeeding]

Turn it off anywhere in the room! Or even the next room over

[@pr4vus.studios]

Having a well recorded dialogue and produced music make the job waaaay easier when mixing the final audio tracks

[@toapyandfriends]

So awesome you had a guy that worked with Mark Walhberg on your show that's so awesome I subscribed

[@AlphaCentauri24]

Great tips. Thank you so much.

[@tonykaizen]

Great tips, thanks a lot.

[@russjohnson1715]

They're so close in frame. I want them to kiss.

[@ForeverZoeful]

😂

[@THISISRISE]

Gayyeeeee

[@MahabubMithun]

Yeah, 'social distance' was not yet invented at that time :D

[@siento_diegopiedra]

Sound effects Boom Perspective Wild sound Clean dialogue

[@carls.2649]

Now you tell me! #4 is my favorite cuz I learned it the hard way on set and later in post. :/

[@LongtowerNyc]

Mix positioning to the scene was a big deal. Matching sound with the sight.

[@orcinuso]

Thank you just subscribed

[@soul_productions]

Thank you for the tips!

[@ab00781]

I hear ya loud and clear! Lol, good video Aputure!

[@vryuki7601]

Great Advice

[@AKSTUDIOUSA]

Amazing videos! Continue guys!

[@jamesfoureight9879]

I’d love to hear examples with this. Thanks for video.

[@joefrank3662]

Luv the knowledge

[@accentontheoff]

The last one is dependent on a co-operative cast? Or do you guys do it in a studio.

[@jennyluvsfood]

question: when using sunlight (which changes) ...do you manually set the aperture and shutter or go on auto .....i ask b/c the sun is changing , and hence if you went manual, you would have to constantly adjust

[@polarfactory841]

old but gold

[@dougshiloh3391]

What mic for indoor scenes? Staying away from lavalieres.

[@incargeek]

If you record “clean audio” and decide to use it, it might not be in lip-sync with the footage shot earlier. So when do you use the clean audio?

[@Usmanislam]

Am your huge fan bro

[@xilefx]

but why is it all in mono? are you doing the wild recordings in stereo but the dialogues in mono to create the scene?

[@jeremym1288]

Thank you! I bought a boom pole and recorder and have no experience. Do you know if you need to adjust the recorder in anyway mid shoot?

[@prankfever8877]

HELLO I BOUGHT A WIRELESS MIC SENNHEISER EW 112P G4 , I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A SCI FI MOVIE FOR NETFLIX , WHAT KIND OF BOOM MIC AND ADAPTOR DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR PROFESSIONAL SOUND ?

[@jankmedia1985]

1:55, looks like the alley where Ricky was gunned down in Boyz n the Hood.

[@BestYouTubeVids123]

Sound Devices 740T is a smooth clean quality audio noticeable at post...

[@grantgreyguda]

👍 👍

[@pomai791]

Can u teach us ways to temporarily set up the aputure c300d on the ceiling or a crazy way to hang the heavy light. Thanks

[@calum89robertson]

Thanks! Quick question. If I was shooting a straightforward sit-down interview indoors, with, say, a Rode NTG3 boomed close to the source, would you recommend using a normal foam windscreen to reduce plosives, etc or just having the microphone bare to have slightly better audio quality?

[@peerdeheer]

Can you tell us how to do a good soundadministration for post?

[@adityathosar2026]

cool...love from india

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[@theiconicknight]

That personal space is non-existent 😂

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Yooo, can I still win one of those mics? Like, I'm just 2 years late, so that's all god, right?

[@flipfilms1759]

Important question: My camera audio is at 4800 khz but using my audio recorder I am able to record at 9600khz. Which one should I use for my recorder sample rate, same as camera audio that I use for syncing, or 9600khz?

[@DeityMicrophones]

48Khz 24bit is what your audio recorder should be set to. 96Khz is for oversampling like when you want to slow down the audio in post or for recording sound effects.

[@flipfilms1759]

Deity Microphones what about oversampling is good for sound effects?

[@SoundSpeeding]

FlipFilms you have more samples when you want to do something funky with your sound effects recordings such as slowing it down

[@darrylsmith3102]

Where is the link to purchase the mic you talked about at the end of this vid.

[@mupinicreativestudios1997]

Good

[@Synismyhero]

Is it too late to win the mic?

[@Muneer404]

1:20 IS THAT SARAH DEITSCHY

[@PunkWithACamera]

In the Broll shot What was the audio rig used?

[@DeityMicrophones]

Zoom F8n with some Lectrosonic wireless kits. S-Mic 2 on the boom.

[@PunkWithACamera]

Deity Microphones thank you for the Speedy reply!

[@AbhijeetMukherjee]

Was that Sara Dietschy holding the boom?

[@serjnazarov2614]

Abhijeet Mukherjee yeah I think so)

[@AKSTUDIOUSA]

What’s the recoding format is he recording sound ?

[@YoungBlaze]

its usually 48hz wav 24bit

[@jennyluvsfood]

can you help me? i can't decide between 120 d vs 300 d ...and between mini and full size light dome ....i also need a fill light and a hair light in addition to the key light ...currently on my channel i am using a lowel kit ...but it is tungsten and way too hot for a kitchen youtube channel ...what would you recommend?

[@quarter8thfilms30]

Start with a 120D and the full size dome, it'll provide more then enough light for your setup. You can add either two 672's or the Tri-8's depending on your budget. They would provide nice fill and hair lights, in a pinch you could also use the M9's as a hair light - or a Mini20.

[@jennyluvsfood]

thank you!!!

[@YoungBlaze]

@@jennyluvsfood how did it work out?

[@jennyluvsfood]

i went with 120D ii and full size dome and mini20 equiv ...i will test it out in my next cooking video ...hey, thanks for the comment

[@MarianoRodriguez]

You guys are too close. It it were raining, the sequence would 100% end with a sex scene.

[@salmanshahid618]

3:46 Name of the movie..?

[@ironickylee3831]

Salman Shahid it’s a tv show season called The People vs. Oj

[@ubacow7109]

We live inthe mpeg-h era, atmos is a thing, lets make more object based mixes

[@theseattlegreen1871]

I don't allow any man that close to me when talking to each other.

[@MahabubMithun]

Sync sound is almost impossible for some countries in this world.

[@Zack_Darce]

Holy shit sara dietshy rhymes with peachy!

[@allthingscroatia]

You guys are standing awkwardly close together haha, but appreciate the tips

[@justintan8823]

"NO CARD"

[@NIKONGUY1960]

I started watching a movie the other day that had won numerous awards from film festivals. It looked good. But within moments of watching it, I noticed the sound was as dry as ever, zero ambience, if that's the right term. I couldn't watch it.

[@chrisscott1547]

You can always add reverberation in post. You cannot remove it.

[@michaeljoefox]

Why are you standing so close 🤔 So uncomfortable

[@Usmanislam]

I need some help bro

[@YoungBlaze]

how

[@lucasgabiroba10]

No card!

[@jl-filmsde6155]

Shutterspeed Video

[@FUBAR956]

Why do B movies sound so fake with lots of echo in the room they’re in?

[@argwohn]

Cinematic Audio? Next up: How to get cinematic catering for your shoot & How to cinematically clap your clapperboard.

[@Tmanaz480]

Hey, slating correctly is not as easy as it looks.

[@findingforever8274]

Omg he has up talk. Hate up talk

[@adrianhealy7058]

Is that where people up the tone at the end of thier sentence, in case we the brain dead, can't compute thier level of sophistication?

[@hilmiakgunlu1036]

61. Comment

[@bohemproduction]

Just crazy question. What is doing Asian guy? :D Seems unnecessary to me