

Eat tart apple slices - This helps my wife and me quite a lot.So here are some things you can do to keep those spit sounds out of your recordings in the first place: It is almost always best to prevent a problem rather than have to fix it later. To brush up on what EQ is, see our article What is Equalization, Usually Called EQ? My editing tool of choice for this is equalization (or "EQ" for short). Once the noises are already in the recording, the only choice (other than trying to record again.and again) is to use audio editing tools to remove the offending saliva noises. But usually I cannot prevent it all, so some saliva noises get recorded.

I struggle with this on my own recordings, so I have experience doing everything I can to prevent that spit noise. When I listened to one of her recordings, I knew exactly what the client was hearing. She had just been turned down for a job because, according to the client, there were too many saliva noises in her audio. Just this past week, I was helping a voice-over actor to improve the quality of her recordings. These saliva "clicks" - along with "p-pops," (for how to remove those, see our article How to Fix a "P-Pop" in Your Audio With Sound Editing Software) are probably the two most common problems we experience when recording vocals.
