Automatically clean and boost your audio with Auphonic and DaVinci Resolve

Auphonic is an absolutely fantastic tool that I have been using for years now. Especially for multitrack podcasts / interviews it’s invaluable.

Auphonic has so many great features. Without it my podcast wouldn't have survived the first episode in 2015 because it automates so many steps that the workload in my (very special) scenario is manageable. I'm more than happy to buy credits for all the work it takes away from me.

I don’t very often use tools like this, but when I need to Auphonic is the best one I’ve used so far. Better than Adobe Podcast. Great vid!

You channel dramatically leveled up my audio. Thanks!

Wow, this is unbelievable Curtis! Thanks so much for sharing this. I struggle getting my voice to sound right but this really does a great job in nailing it.

I have been using Auphonic’s for years now since you introduced me to it and just love it. Always does a great job. Highly recommended for anyone, like me, who struggles a little with sound.

Wow! I just tried this out and Auphonic is incredible. Much better results than what I've been able to get with Adobe's "Enhance Speech" tools. Thanks for the walk through!

Always offering outstanding videos, this is one of your best!

Curtis, these tips are so helpful. Thank you for the work you do.

Thanks for your settings. I’m using this service for more than a year now, and I’m just uploading the whole video to auphonic, and then edit it in resolve.

Your channel has been so helpful for my amateur level filmmaking and helping it to get better constantly!

Incredible! Thank you very much!

Auphonic's mouth declicking is actually really impressive. It's the only 'declicker' I've used that manages to avoid parts of the speech that other declickers dig into. According to their website part of their denoiser's neural network (whatever it's called) was trained on mouth noises. Unfortunately you can't seperate the general broadband noise reduction from the mouth declicking. I've used it on a few hour long podcasts that had some heavy mouth noises to save a lot of time. I'd really love a standalone declicker like that.

Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

I've edited an entire 30min "live" sitcom episode with 9 mics by hand. This helped to level and de-noise all of it so fast, and I barely had to open RX (given the recordings were not terrible to start with, but definitely needed some work). Amazing tool that finally is up to the task. Not perfect, I would not use it on a movie, but still... It can actually save you time to make creative decisions instead of being a human loudness adjuster... My recommendation is to use even more conservative settings than shown in the video (-6dB is enough compression if you're targeting -23LUFs. Also, -6 to -9dB of noise reduction works fine), and if needed do the rest yourself. You'll probably still have to ad you own compression, Eq and denoise some very specific problem areas, like lav rustles underneath the dialog, big plosives etc. I heard they used to have a standalone version, it is a shame they took it down for this format... Should this be a vst/aax/au plugin? Yes. Would I pay for it? Definitely! On a subscription model? Hell no! As always Curtis, great video!

Auphonic has been incredibly helpful to me. I’m also amazed at how cheap it is. Thanks for this very helpful video. I appreciated being able to see what settings you recommend.

Thank you for publishing this very interesting video. As an experiment, I compared Auphonic's output with an audio track that I mixed and processed in Resolve (EQ, Compressor, Limiter) and the resulting output from Auphonic was almost identical to what I had achieved. I don't claim to be an audio expert (far from it) but I either did a good job (which was probably a fluke) or Auphonic didn't add much. I'll try Auphonic again (two free hours per month is well beyond my needs) but I'm not sure that I'll use it as a long term part of my workflow. However, it is good to know these types of products are out there. Audio processing is one of the hardest parts of post-production and there might be times where the assistance Auphonic provides could be really useful.

Ive just bought myself a mic preamp for the first time and as a consequence, I’m having to tweak my levels in the DAW a lot more. This application could be really handy and save a lot of time. I didn’t even know such things existed. Cheers Curtis.

Never heard of this system - tried it for voices and it's great. Thanks for pointing to it.

Extremely helpful video, especially the Auphonic settings. I agree - their debreath feature works better with 12 db of noise reduction, but even then I found it a bit aggressive at times. Overall though I think Auphonic is great.