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Making audio sound muffled
I recorded some audio for a short film I’m doing that I want to sound muffled.
The situation is that a woman is being held under a tarp and she is screaming from under neath it.
I want the clear audio I have to sound like it should for that situation….
I tried using the equalizer… but either wasn’t putting it at the right settings, or I don’t know…Can anyone suggest a better filter(s) and roughly what number values would be good to set them at?
telling me to ‘play’ with them isn’t helpful, because i’ve tried that and haven’t gotten close to what I wantthanks,
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Use the graphic equalizer and lower the gain of each slider to -20 starting with 20kHz (I think that’s the highest frequency control). When you get down to around 5kHz you’ll want to start playing with lesser amounts of cut. Keep going lower in freq until it’s muffled to your taste.
John
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How about a Band Pass filter or a Low Shelf? You can isolate frequencies, then work with EQ…
Michael Gossen
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Try the Low Pass Filter for starters and find a Freq. setting which suits you the best. It will roll off al the freqs. higher than that setting. Then maybe a a High Pass Filter set to around 100-130Hz or so.
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It is always much easier to record the effect as a wild line on the day of the shoot. Talent lies under tarp and presto – it sounds right. Just muffling with EQ isn’t the same thing as you are finding out.
It could be re-recorded in a booth. You might even try feeding the signal out to a good speaker under a covering and re-recording the signal. There is also convolution processing, but only if you have an impulse sample of muffled under tarp.
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Sure….if they can . If he can only work with a dry recording and can’t get the talent to record again….well.
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Re-Amping is the answer. Most often done with guitars, you take the clean signal and run it through an amp/speaker and re-record it. Typically looking for a certain amp/speaker combo, while in this situation you’re looking for ambience/effect.
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Ah, this one gave me what I was looking for!
Thanks everyone for the responses, I really appreciate it
-jeff
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