In today's tutorial I'm going to show you guys how I get my audio sounding from this to this. Now this is what I use to zoom H5 portable recorder. If you don't have one of these it's all good I'm going to show you a way to get better audio quality than you standard GoPro and microphone and I'll show you how at the end of the vid. There are a whole bunch of portable recorders on the market. Have a research on audio quality and find the one that suits you and your budget best. I picked up the zoom H5 because I've used them before and I know how versatile they are. Plus I can use it as an interface for when I want to lay down a baseline. You can use it for folly. You can also use it as a microphone for doing voiceovers like I am right now. Good day guys. There are a couple of methods I use for syncing up audio. The first one is direct line in. This is a great simple method if you have a camera with a shim out and you want to get footage and crisp audio of your bike idling. It's simple because the audio is written directly on the camera's SD card meaning that there is no syncing necessary. If you don't have a camera with a shim out it's all good I'll show you how to do it in just a second along with syncing. First, mount your microphone to your camera and plug it into your microphone input. Turn the camera and microphone on. Now we need to dial in the volume or gain input settings on both the microphone and camera so that the audio level doesn't peak resulting in distorted audio quality. This is referred to as clipping in the audio world and should be avoided at all costs. You got the line for your microphone as well. Take that road down you'll see the bars that is dropping. Turn it back up a little bit again and she's cranking. Woo that's what I mean about clipping. See how much it's just pumping up there. This is what clipping audio sounds like. It's all distorted it's horrible and you will know that it's doing it by the bars just like smashing off the grid man. Red lining gone. Oh you must stop this this is so bad. No good we do not want to bring that back down here. Take it like a nice nice soft balance here because these parts are loud so I want to want it to be fairly down and then you want to put your wind sock over the top just to cut the wind noise out as much as possible which is this little bad boy here. This is from Zoom as well. They're only like 15 bucks or something. These ones cut out the wind way better than the others. Look at that. Little fluffy troll boy. If you'd like to take it a step further you can plug in a set of headphones to hear exactly what your microphone is hearing. Now our highly suggests doing this especially if it's your first time using an audio recorder just so you can hear exactly what the microphone is hearing so that you can dial in the settings correctly. Take note and you can use them later on and also you might not be hearing something in the background that's happening. There might be some dude mowing along which you haven't really thought about. So you can hear the sound as soon as you put the canza on you can hear that. You can hear the plane flying overhead. You can hear all this other stuff going on behind you and it makes you realize how much audio is actually picked up by the microphone. You may take a couple of tries to get it right but experiment with it. See what it sounds like when the levels are too high or too low. Familiarize yourself and make a note of the settings you use for future reference. Just remember to leave some headroom if you want to crack the throttle it gets real loud real fast. METHA 2 SINKING First I turn on my GoPro then I turn on my external mic and dial in the settings. Because the microphone will be in my backpack the settings will be slightly different and will require a little more gain. Once dialed in I hit record on both the devices and immediately clap in front of my face so that the GoPro sees it and the microphone hears it. This is your sync marker and will help you line up the audio from the microphone and go pro later in post which will get to ingest the sec. Find a good place to hide the microphone. I use this little section of the bobble b backpack which works perfectly. Just try to keep it away from as much wind as possible or from any rattles that may be inside your bag. This stuff makes heaps and noise so if I just set that in there by itself it would be rattling around sounding horrible. Listen to that sound. We don't want that so we load it up with some rags or whatever you got lying around. I'm using a buff here just in case it gets cold and there's another beanie. Lay it down in there like that. Sorry I'll put it this way because that's the way the exhaust is going to be. This is the way that it works best for me. You guys can try out something else if you have a little spot where you can stick it underneath your seat or in a little cowl or something like that. See what you can come up with to pull the best audio possible. I use a purple panda microphone that's in my helmet and that's what I use for all of my motor vlogging vids. But I also use this to my advantage when mixing my audio and post and I'll show you guys how. First once you've imported your GoPro footage into your timeline I'm using Final Cut Pro X. You just want to scrub your marker until you find the clap point. You can see the peak in the audio there that's exactly where I clapped and then hit M on the keyboard and that'll mark that exact point. You want to do the same with your external mic audio. Drag it into your timeline and do the exact same thing. Once you've marked them both then you just line up the markers and presto you have yourself some synced audio to your video. Once I'm happy with the levels I'll add a graphic equalizer to both the audio sources, the external microphone and the GoPro helmet mic. This is just so I can get the audio sounding exactly how I want it. And then I'll save that EQ for future use. And what I usually do when I'm mixing the audio is I like to get a bit of a level from the helmet and mix it in with the external microphone. I find that sometimes external mics are a little bit too clean and just don't get that feeling that you are actually riding. The helmet delivers a different type of sound so you get a bit of that wind noise and a bit more of that top hand. If you don't have a microphone in your helmet just try mixing in some of the GoPro audio. Now I can hear you guys saying, well hey, my hammer, I don't have one of these and I don't have Final Cut Pro or Premiere or whatever you're using. Now the start of the vid I mentioned how you can actually get better audio without using all of these fancy stuff and that is by using your internal microphone that's in your helmet. Yes, you're going to need to buy something. You can't just use the GoPro audio because the GoPro audio just isn't there. Hey, so we all know it sucks especially when you hit the wind noise that thing kicks in and it just sounds like garbage. These aren't that expensive. You plug this into your GoPro, stick it under your seat somewhere and go for a rip and see how you go. I did it for the first time just today. Okay, so I've never actually done this before. So it's going to be pretty interesting to see how it turns out. This is the Pepple Panda Microphone. This is a brand spanker. I've still got one in my helmet but this is a good opportunity to try this out. So you can get away without using the they'll extend on the microphone and save some Buccarunis. Boom. And that just goes straight into the gully. All right, now try there. It could get a little bit of wind noise. It will see how we go. So under the seat didn't work the best for me. You can hear that it's clipping. These parts are allowed to be very boomy and it was distorted in the microphone. So I moved the microphone from under the seat to the front pocket of my pants. Now it's a little bit better here but you can still hit the wind noise. You can still hear that it's a bit boomy. So I moved it from the front of my pants to the back pocket of my pants. Which helped with the wind noise but it was too loud being right there right next to my pipes. They're pretty loud, pretty boomy. So it's still distorting the audio. So I'll move it from the back of my pants to the pocket of my jacket and I think I found this sweet spot. I mean that sounds way better than the standard GoPro audio. The downside doing this is that there is no audio level on the GoPro so you can't just go in there and just lower all the levels so that it won't clip. And also you do have a bit of a lead just dangling around in front of you. I know you could just tuck that into your jacket. If you want to run this mic on a more permanent basis you might think about putting it inside the jacket or just hiding the lead completely so you don't have to worry about getting tangled up in it. And another reason why I prefer the dual microphone setup is because I like to have a chat while I ride. What you're going to do then in post is lower the external microphone level so that you can hear my voice nicely and then once you're done just raise that level back up. And that ladies and gentlemen is how I get the audio from all my riding vids. That's how I try to make it as clear as possible the best sounding... the sonic experience for you guys plus I love the sound of my zards man and I want to try to do their injustice. And if you want more inside on how I use ND filters and all the GoPro sort of tech stuff make sure to check out this playlist make sure you subscribe to the channel if you want to see more and I'll see you guys next week. Have a lovely day.