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some audio advice
OK folks,
I don’t expect much response here but any suggestions you can offer would be appreciated.
Did a sort of low-budget ‘pro-bono’ job for a friend for her employer’s website. Basically a couple of former presidents on camera just speaking. The problem? They just hired an idiot guy who owned a minidv consumer camcorder, recorded audio straight off the omni-camera mike(no boom, no lav, not a single luxury…). And to add the the BS, the air conditioning is blaring and these interviewees are old and mumbling most of the time.
the audio was overall recorded low (about -25db) and here’s the kicker- they brought back to speakers a week later to reshoot and the audio was so bad, it barely peaked -60db.
I have tried my best using the apple and fcp filters (low shelf, AU EQ, dc notch, dynamic gain) and then normalizing the entire soundtrack to 0db to make it as listenable as possible. Personally, I thoguht I darn good job considering.
In any case, the client (knowing they dropped the ball on the camera hire) is asking me to either farm it out to an audio house locally and see how they can improve it. BUT BEFORE I DO THAT OR ASK FOR RECOMMENDATIONS HER IN ATLANTA, can any of you suggest any tricks within the FCP studio family I could try (unique filters in soundtrack pro, peak express, cheap plugin) I could try to make one last stab at it myself?
I know. I know…but anything you can think of would be great. thanks in advance.
Rick
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Maybe try knocking the background noise out with a program called SoundSoap? It will learn your room noise + pull the frequencies + has some sort of built-in preset that can preserve the human voice. Good luck!
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