After Removing an Umm

Sometimes when you remove an Umm it can cause the person’s “flow” to sound a bit unnaturally. And an unnatural flow can cause the listener to be distracted and say, “What was that? Sounded weird.”

So, after removing an Umm, be sure to listen back to that edit and decide if it sounds natural enough.

If it sounds unnaturally rushed, undo your edit and instead of cutting the entire Umm mute the entire Umm, and then only remove about 50-75% of that muted audio. So essentially you’re leaving a bit of blank space where the Umm used to be. Try this and feel the flow, Luke.

Do you use any other editing tricks like this?

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