Audio Very Low..

[Peter Groom]

why cant you just sync up the audio from your zoom in your edit system.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Bernard Ageeb]

Hi Peter,
the audio on the 7d is very very low and it will need havy boosting or something to get the audio level up.

[John Fishback]

Peter, I think he meant the Zoom’s SD card filled up. To boost your levels you need to do that in an audio app or your nle. Depending on how low the levels are you may have to do a couple of passes by raising the level, exporting the audio file, reimporting and then raising levels again until you have enough level. Understand that all the noise in the signal will also be increased. You can remove some of that noise with an app like Izotope RX. You could also try playing the Zoom and taking its output into a preamp which you use to raise the levels. You’d record that raised signal with your nle or an audio app or second Zoom.

John

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[Bernard Ageeb]

Hi John,
Yes, the SD card stop recording and the line out from the zoom into the Canon 7d .The audio on the Canon SD card is what I need fixed. I try raising the audio and each time the noise is getting louder.

[Peter Groom]

HI
yes, sorry Id not grasped that.

Boosting a poor signal to noise recording will inevitably increase the bg noise as your recording is too near the noise floor.
why dont you post a short sample so we can hera the problem and seeif we can help with a fix.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Bernard Ageeb]

Here is a small click for you to see

6545_62.mp3.zip

[Richard Crowley]

I heard 9 minutes and 19 seconds of moderate level hiss and NO signal at all. It is not at all clear what you want to do with this? There is no detectable signal here that I could detect.

[Bernard Ageeb]

Hi Richard,
Thanks for checking it out. I believe the cable which camee out of the zoom h4n into my canon 7d is bad or was not not in all the way. That is why i have no signal.

Bernard

[Peter Groom]

Thats not low level audio.
its no level audio.
Nothing to salvage here.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Bernard Ageeb]

Thanks all for your help