Many people have thought and dreamed of becoming an influencer, a YouTuber or even just saying what they think on the internet, but the financial barrier or the barrier of knowledge about brands and microphone quality is quite discouraging.
When I started producing videos 3 years ago, I had the same problem. I started improvising, I thought I never had the ideal environment to do this and I ended up putting it off, thinking that one day I would have things, until I simply said “enough”, it’s going to be now.
I took the microphone from my cell phone’s earphones, saw that it was audible, turned on the camera and made it happen. 3 years ago. 20 thousand subscribers ago.
At the time, due to the lack of accessible technology, the only way was to open Audacity, remove noise, improve the equalizer, cut, edit and spend a lot of time to make the audio good.
Today, there is a free tool (so far) called Adobe Podcast and yes, it is from Adobe, the same as Photoshop and is aimed at podcast audios, as the name suggests.
In its free version, it allows you to improve up to 30 minutes of audio at a time, for a total of 1 hour per day. In addition to removing noise from speech, the tool’s goal is to equalize the audio for that “fuller” microphone sound.
To use it, you need to convert your audio to mp3 (you can do it online, extract the audio from your video and convert it to mp3). It will enhance it, convert it to wav and return it to you, then you can play it back in the video.
On your cell phone, you can do it with any basic video editor (I think even Capcut can do it).
It’s important to remember that if you make videos of gameplay or other background sounds that you want to show, it’s important to record the microphone separately, because the optimization will improve your microphone but will remove all background sounds (or muffle them, like in a podcast).
With their paid plan, you can play the entire video there and it will optimize it and send it back to you in a total of up to 4 hours/day.
And I’ve even tested it with a Xingling Bluetooth microphone and the audio was postable.
The tool: https://podcast.adobe.com/
I hope this tip helps you evolve and grow! Thanks guys!