ASMR Microphone Tapping

You won't find many of these videos on youtube, especially not with diaphragm microphones, for one simple reason: They are surprisingly difficult to make. Tapping directly on any microphone sends waves of distortion to the input, make it a studio mic and that problem gets even worse. There are three ways I went about this to improve sound quality. 1) My mic has upgraded shock mounts, both internally with 30 durometer poly and externally. From the mics to bushings, then to a dual framed metal stand, bushings again, and finally to the camera tripod (which also has its own rubber mounts). The only downside is that the mics sway and move around quite a bit. 2) I'm a cheater and record in 32bitfloat, making it impossible for an asmr recording to overpower. You could achieve the same by simply recording at a much safer volume, but then once again you'd be sacrificing audio quality and dynamic range. So now that you have a quality recording with no distortions, you need a way to compress everything into a balanced final recording. Tapping on the mic is a very aggressive trigger, that is to say: the quiet bits are really quiet and the loud bits are extremely loud... but we want to hear a little bit of both. That is where the last step comes into play. 3) Recently I have been using a new audio leveling technique on all of these videos. It's called soft clipping. Plenty of free audio plugins exist like, "initial clipper, Gclip, freeclip, etc.", I used a plugin called KClip 3 because I like to think I'm held to a higher standard, and it sounded better to me as well. I've been wanting to do this for so long, just didn't know it existed. Have you ever been at a party and talked someone's ear off about how you, "wish you could just pull down the peaks without affecting the quiet sounds. I keep trying with every built-in effect and it just keeps dropping everything with harsh attack. Even when I apply the limiter, or compressor to individual channels it still doesn't work right". Well don't worry, you'll never have to have those awkward conversations again. Use a soft clipper and keep your resonance! All said and done, I think it would have sounded even better with a harder microphone cover, or maybe if I just tapped on a bowl separate from the mic it would... ohhh wait that's called simulated scalp tapping, yeah that, I should have just done that xD. I wrote this description on a train, thanks for giving me something to do. Everyone around me probably thinks I'm a big fancy businessman replying to business-like emails. Filibuster

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