Professional “Film” Sound With Dialogue

[Chris Wright]

In production, this is what I do. I record with Sennheiser MKH 416(or other expensive senn mic as appropiate) at distance close as I can for good sound. XLR all the way to expensive foztex field recorder(as cheaper recorders wreck the sound of good mics)

In post, after basic harball equalizing, I use adobe audition, furthur smoothing out the sound by use effect – studio reverb at 100-200hz at bare minimum settings and lower the 16k. raise 192kz and 1120 hz for voice. finally use multiband compression so that the audience doesn’t get a heart attack when there’s a sudden increase in volume.

I get cinema quality sound this way.

[Ben Hilton]

Very interesting, thank you for your input.

[Ben Hilton]

Thank you for the detailed information on your workflow. Very helpful. Do you have a Vimeo channel or someplace I could see your work for some examples of your final audio?