Continue sipping your water every few minutes while recording and swill it around ending with a light gargle before fully swallowing to ensure there is not too much water in your mouth that may cause additional noise. Try adding half a lemon or some cucumber to your bottle of room temperature water in the booth.

Make sure you drink at least 1 litre of water 3 hours before your session either starting the night before or first thing in the morning. Don’t over indulge the night before at the pub. Don’t have more than one coffee before your session and certainly don’t smoke as nicotine and coffee are massive diuretics and will drain all the moisture from your mouth. Make sure you stay hydrated as this is the major cause of mouth noise. It's also good to remember, if you have too many mouth noises you might be replaced by another VO.īut don't worry, everyone has some form of mouth noise and although there’s no magic cure to guarantee their elimination, below are some top tips that can help you remain noise free when behind the mic. From a listeners point of view, they become distracting and often annoying.

From an editing point of view, these mouth noises add considerable time to a project. We get a lot of people who ask us how they can reduce their mouth noises when recording and it’s a tricky question to answer as everyone's level of noise and the primary cause is different.

How to remove mouth noise in audacity