How to Check Audio for a Post-Production Home Studio

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi, I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm going to be talking to you about audio monitoring. Obviously, when you're working on any sort of video project, the audio is half of the experience. The quality of your audio is very important and your client is going to demand a high quality audio. The best way to deliver that to them is to first invest in a very good set of speakers. For example, I have these two desktop speakers which were a little more expensive than anything that would come with a home PC. You want to make sure that the quality of the sound is good as possible. Also, you don't want to get the cheapest pair of speakers because--then you're not going to know or be able to decide certain editorial changes based on what you're hearing. Whenever you're doing a video project, there's no way of knowing the quality of the speakers that the viewer will be using when they're listening to your video, whatever the project is. So, you want to make sure that your high-quality speakers can deliver something that's going to sound great on very expensive speakers and will be audible on moderately to cheaply priced speakers. Depending on the size of your home office, the size and quality of your speakers is obviously going to vary. If it's a small room or a small office space, you want to make sure that your speakers aren't way too big for that space because obviously any audio that you're going to be using is going to be amplified and you might not get an accurate depiction of what the sound will actually be like. When it comes to headphones, you want to watch out for how accurate the sound is that you're getting from your project. A lot of times, headphones have a tendency to amplify the sound, make things seem louder than they actually are. So, you want to make sure that you're listening to it in a couple of different scenarios to make sure that the final project sounds great."