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remove swoosh of breaking waves on beach
Aloha Gang,
Shot a wedding on beach near to shoreline as most beaches are… and as tide came up, the noise of the break got louder and started to overtake cerimonial I DO’s. Only had camera mic and need to filter out the ocean from dialog. Must have to figure out that freq and try to knock it down without killing “I DO” etc. I will try playing with eq in vegas8.0c but have SF9 and Sonar8 on this machine. Any ideas? Thanks for your time….bobt -
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Theoretically: the speaking is probably between 80-250Hz, but, unfortunately, the waves might span everything from very high sand particles tinkling about to the subsonic rumbling crash. I do not envy you your task.
But I would like to hear the non-theoretical real-world practical answer you arrive at.
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Aloha Eric,
Well this was a for free gig for myneighbor’s daughter and was not approached as a well equipt’d pro. Just me and my mini dv. But nun the less a learning expierience. I have been playin around with noise reduction in SF9 aling with eq and it is a fact that the human voice and mother nature are talkin’ in the same freq range. In this case a trade off of gettin rid of and still hearing ..I will pass on a post from JF fron the DMN forum where I also posted my problem. He is the man for Audio stuff along with Vegas and other……..You have SF9, so you have the Sony Noise Reduction tool. Now water/waves is the most difficult to eliminate due to its broadband frequency nature. So, I’d attack first with some aggressive EQ with a high pass at 200Hz and a low pass at 8000 (use Paragraphic EQ). Then punch the consonants with an EQ boost around 2.5kHz. Fiddle until you get the best sound. It will probably start to sound a bit thin, but intelligibility is what were after here, not an Oscar for sound. Then, use the NR tool
Tutorial here:
https://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=166554
BTW: I’d use a cardioid lav not an omni or even a tram omni with the capsule pointed at the body for extra separation from the noise.
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