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Audio filter
I was recently handed a set of 15 half hour shows and the hosts audio sounds like it was shot in a tin can. the guests sounds great, very present. but I need to resolve the hosts.
Is there some filter or combination of filters that can help minimize this tin can echoy sound? I have tried practically every filter available in FCP 5.1.1 and can’t seem to get the right sound. I’m not looking for perfection, but need a noticible improvement.
In doing some investigating of the clients recording process, I discovered that the audio board had the master deck on a “playback sample” fader. i guess for testing audio playback on the master tape. When this fader was left up it must have created some form of feed back through the hosts mic. Odd it doesn’t show in the guests mic, but none the less it is the best I can come up with at this point.
thanks for your help in advance,
Joe
Joe Stanfill
MJR Video Productions
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From your cryptic description, it sounds like the there was a slightly delayed feed of the host audio back into the desk. This would sound like a stranger phase doubling, making it sound ‘tinny’.
No filter can help with that scenario. At best you can EQ to add low frequency, but the phase situation can’t be unmixed
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Imagine that someone handed you a video tape with a two-camera show already cut together.
The guest-camera looks just fine, but the host-camera has a very slight ghost-image MIXED WITH IT of a full-sceen yellow and blue “checker board” that floated slowly thru the shot.
What kind of filter would you use to make the host’s camera image look as clean as the guest’s?
This is (roughly) the audio equivalent.
Sorry.
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If the audio track has already been mixed down and the host’s audio is intermingled with the guests, then there’s little you can do at this point.
However, if the audio still exists on discrete tracks then you can try to use an EQ filter to improve the tonal quality. If it still sounds tinnier than the others, then you can also use an EQ filter to slightly degrade the other tracks to provide a better match.
A horrible option, but better than having one audio track sound worse than the rest.
Whoever did the audio for the shows needs to be replaced. Making a mistake for five minutes is understandable. Continuing the mistake for 15 30-minute shows is unforgivable.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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