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bad voice-over audio
Hi all,
I’m making a quick medical tutorial DVD and the voice-over has been recorded badly, the sound level is too high and at moments the audio meter goes red. It’s not everywhere, just certain words. As I am useless with audio, does anyone know a quick filter to fix this problem? It doesn’t have to be perfect sounding just a bit better.
Thanks in advance.
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5 Replies
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If it’s peaking in the original recording, there is nothing you can really do, the data is lost.
You can take down the gain at that particular moment, or use the EQ to take down the most offending frequencies, but that’s about it.
Vince
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I thought there was little to be done alright, guess I’ll mess with the gain a bit. Thank you the advice.
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Start by normalizing the audio. That might do it the fastest and easiest.
Steven
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You may be able to de-noise and smooth the offending bits via Adobe Soundbooth. I’d work with copies of just the bad segments. It will still sound awful, just not quite as awful.
-jeff
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If you have Adobe Audition 3 it has a GREAT effect that does wonders for distortion. It’s called Clip Restoration (audio clipping [when the wave squares off]).
Effects > Restoration > Clip Restoration.
Set the input attenuation as you want, maybe -2 but set the overhead to 25%, leave the other settings.
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