Feb

Improve Your Voice Quality to Get More YouTube Views

Want to create better videos? Have you ever thought about the importance of the sound of your youtube videos?

Here are few quick tips that will help you improve your voice quality and thus get more youtube views.

1) Keep your throat lubricated

If it is dry you will have hard time speaking and your voice will sound bad. I did some extensive research on this one and it turned out that watter is the worst and pineapple juice is the best thing you can drink.

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2) Support your voice from the diaphragm

Can you speak loudly without yelling? A lot of people start yelling when they try to raise their tone, this is a side effect from bad speaking and breathing habits.

If you learn to speak trough your diaphragm your voice quality will improve dramatically!

To make sure that you are doing it correctly, start by placing your hand on your stomach and breathe in. While you are doing this you should notice that your stomach is getting bigger, if it is, you are breathing in your diaphragm, now start humming and exhale slowly and steadily, while you are doing this you should notice that your stomach is shrinking.

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3) Breathe in trough the nose

If breathing trough the mouth was good for us we wouldn’t have noses. There are mechanisms in the nose that moisten the air that we inhale to prevent the vocal cords from drying up.

Inhaling air trough the mouth will dry your throat which will lead to lowered voice performance and more stress on the vocal cords.

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4) Remove background noise

Microphones will exaggerate any background noise that they pick up. So if possible, make sure you don’t have any people talking in other rooms,loud computer fans running or airplanes flying over

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5) Talk slowly and articulate

Don’t mumble! You can even intentionally exaggerative your lip movements to make sure that your are being clear. Also take pauses to give the people listening some time to reflect and absorb the thing you said.

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6) Buy a better microphone
Most people use cheap $2 microphones that come with headphones or webcams. These microphones SUCK big time. If you are serious about your YouTube carier you need to consider investing in a better microphone. I did a good research on this. Here are 3 good microphones that you might want to consider:

Blue Microphones – Yeti USB Microphone – $100	It has a lot of options for recording in different surroundings and for different purposes. The sound recording is amazing, however it might be an overkill.
Audio Technica – AT2020 – $91.94	Similar quality to the Yeti microphone, a little smaller but doesn’t have that many functions.
Blue Mircophones – Snow Flake – $40	This microphone is perfect for your YouTube videos. The sound quality is decent and the price awesome for what you get. I’ve done a big research to bring you this list and a lot of people are recommending this product for creating videos on YouTube.

So, make sure you use these tips when you create the next videos and then compare the voice quality differences. And remember that having a higher quality video means that you will get more YouTube views.

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-Alex Payne

PS. If you have any questions about just ask me in the comment section below and I will respond as soon as I can.

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Dec

Flip Style Camcorders Review : Kodak Zi8 vs Flip Ultra HD

Considered Getting A Better Camcorder For Shooting Professional YouTube Videos?

Technology evolves fast. If you wanted to record a video decent quality video 10 years ago, you had to buy or rent a $10.000 camcorder.

Today you can get a pretty good camcorder for less than $200. And if you are serious about your exposure on YouTube you will have to get one eventually.

I was researching for the best low – budget HD camcorder ($100 – $200) that would be most suitable for uploading videos on YouTube.

My research narrowed down to:

Kodak Zi8 vs Flip Ultra HD

Kodak Zi8	Flip Ultra HD	Specifications
720p (bad 1080p)	720p	Resolution
60	60	FPS
2 hours	2 hours	Battery Life
Up to 32 GB	8GB	Memory
Yes	No	External Microphone Support
Yes	Yes	Image Stabilization
Yes	Yes	Tripod Support
Yes	Yes	HDMI port and cable
Yes	Yes	Audio Playback
Yes	Yes	Internal Microphone
Low	Low	Low Light Performance
No	Yes	AA Batteries Support
Yes	No	Face Detection, Macro
$100 – $130	$170.99 – $200	Price
More Features, The ability to plug in external microphone is really useful if you want to record quality audio since the internal microphones usually suck. The only Flip Style camcorder that has a macro function (that I am aware of) which is really useful if you want to do a closeup on something. If you are searching for more features and want to save some money you should go with this one.	Easier to use, I really like the AA batteries support. Also I think it looks better than the Zi8 and it can be fixed without a Tripod. If you want a pretty and stable camcorder that will never run out of batteries and you don’t plan to use an external microphone or shoot in macro mode, than the Flip Ultra HD is the right one for you. * Just make sure that you buy the third generation (With 8 GB memory and 2h of recording time), searching for this camcorder on eBay can be confusing.	Overall