Fix These 3 Audio Issues to Keep Viewers Listening (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: If the audio in your videos is hard to listen to, people will leave and your mic usually isn't the problem. It's a few small mistakes. Here are my biggest audio recording pet peeves and how to fix them. Number one is uneven audio levels. One second you're whispering and the next you're yelling at me. It's exhausting to listen to and genuinely makes me want to cover my ears and run away. So an easy fix for this is to normalize your audio levels. That just means bringing the quiet parts of your audio up and pulling the loud parts down so everything feels consistent. Number two is mouth noises. Once you hear this, you can't unhear it. The clicking and smacking of your mouth. It's just one of the most grating sounds ever. A simple fix is to step back slightly from your microphone and stop trying to eat it. You can also remove silences in post, which helps cut down on extra mouth noise between words. And number three, and this one's a bit personal, is when your lips don't match your video. Video to audio delay is really common, especially when your audio and video are recorded separately and it instantly pulls people out of the video. The fix for this is really easy. You just need to nudge the video forward or backward until your lips line up with your voice. You can do that and honestly fix most of these issues right inside Riverside's editor. And once your audio stops fighting the listener, people can actually focus on what you're saying.