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Mixing Boom + Lav Audio FCP STP
Hi all,
I’m trying to fix the audio from a rather disastrous shoot, where our audio guy had the mic on the wrong talent!So basically I have two leads. One is on lav and boom and sounds great. The other lead is only on the boom. In a very large room. The other lav was on a bit player.
I’ve been experimenting with making the good audio sound more like the bad audio, but it’s just a ridicoluous process.
I really want to bring up the boom sound so it has less reverb and HVAC noise and sounds somewhat like the lav.
It doesn’t help much that the talent who was on lav has a very rich deep voice, yet the other who was not is very high and soft.
Any suggestions? (There is no budget for purchasing any new software, so FCP or STP based is best! Also, I’m not incredibly advanced, so please spell it out for me.)
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4 Replies
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Jane,
To put it simply: You’re hosed!
There are no magical plug ins for this kind of “fix”. You’re on the right track thinking about “degrading” the good to sound more like the bad… but as you’ve discovered, this makes it all sound bad.
I’ve really got no good suggestions for you other than to confirm that you’re in a pickle and if you
can’t spend the money to send it to a professional mixer, there’s nothing that you’re going to do that’s
going to fix this mistake.STP has a great “noise elimination” filter. Find it. Learn it. Use it. Other than that… experiment till
you’re close.Good luck.
Mark
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Oh no! Not good at all!
It’s especially infuriating because I can hear the bit player BREATHING because the lav is one them the whole scene.
I’ll try to isolate the voice on the boom and try to deepen it a bit. What are good filters for just adding some body? I’ve been messing around with the EQ but I’ve been making it a little too muddy.
I’m also laying in a lot of room tone over the lav’ed talent to drown out the crispness.
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Sorry to hear about your troubles. As a professional mixer I can basically agree that you are Hosed. Most audio fixes at this point will cost you a lot of money for very little in return. You might be able to do some trickery with phase cancelation between the microphones, but that would be a highly unlikely fix to your problem. Good luck.
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Jane,
Try the AU Equalizer in Audio Filters>Apple.
It has 31 different frequency settings that you can tweak. My advice – create a playback loop and tweak away.
Good luck.
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