Choose the quietest room
Walk around your home at the time you plan to record and listen. Pick the room furthest from traffic, fridges and air vents. Switch off fans and close the windows before every take.
Home audio guide
Record clear voiceover at home
A good voice track has less to do with an expensive microphone than with the room, the distance and a few minutes of preparation. These steps turn an ordinary bedroom into a usable recording space.
Soften the walls
Bare walls bounce your voice back into the microphone and make it sound hollow. A wardrobe full of clothes, a sofa, thick curtains or a duvet hung behind you absorb those reflections cheaply.
Keep a steady distance
Stay about a hand's width, roughly fifteen to twenty centimetres, from the microphone and speak slightly across it rather than straight into it. A pop filter stops hard "p" and "b" sounds from thumping.
Set levels before you start
Read your loudest line and adjust the input so the meter peaks well below the top, around a quarter from the red. Quiet but clean audio can be raised later; clipped audio cannot be repaired.
Record room tone
Before speaking, record ten seconds of silence. Editing software uses this sample to learn the background hiss and remove it gently without making your voice sound robotic.
Clean, then check loudness
Cut breaths and mistakes, apply light noise reduction, then a gentle compressor. Finally normalise the file so it plays at a similar loudness to other videos on the platform.
Before every session
Drink some water, silence your phone, check the cable and do one short test recording. Listening back with headphones for thirty seconds saves an hour of re-recording.