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STP 3 / Levelator Combo
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Should have taken your advise, Michael (& later Dave’s). The LVTR output is inconsistent 🙁 At times the dialogue seems to come from far while the waves look leveled with the rest of the track.
Sending AIFF tracks (mono) to STP (without handles) to work on peaks. (With handles it didn’t work).
What shall I avoid when “normalizing”, cleaning ?
Sorry about all these unpro questions – our sound designer is on vacation so I’m left with unfinished audio….this is my first sound experiment.
Cheers!
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Not being an “audio guy” I don’t have any ground breaking advice. Hopefully you are working on a station that has at least good quality audio monitors, it’s not advisable to just use headphones for a final mix. Don’t rely on normalizing, once you have you base audio level decided, listen to make sure the volume between the clips sounds the way you want, not just that the peaks hit a certain level. In cleaning, don’t completely take the sound out. Like, if there’s some noise in between sentences, be careful of silencing it out. It’s probably better replace it with clean room tone.
But really, for the most part, trust your ears.
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The main issue is adjusting peaks (with Normalizing) in between sentences. For example: the sentence “Hi, how are you?” “Hi” has a peak of -2dB, while the rest of the sentence is at -17dB. Leveling the two parts with Normalizing, creates glitches that are undetectable with the “Analyze” function. (Remember, I work on AIFF tracks – sending OMFs or the original FCP timeline to STP3 freezes the system and as I said, the audio is recorded on 16 channels, accidentally).
When leveling the sentence with Levelator, the word “Hi” sounds as if it’s coming from far, while the rest sounds ok.
My audio system is fine.
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You probably do need to adjust the levels manually with keyframes and not rely on normalize. You need more control that what normalize gives you. Though now I’m curious about the accidental 16 tracks. Is it 16 tracks of the same audio, like 8 stereo tracks of dialogue? Maybe some of those should be taken out.
You can email me off list too if you like, davebergan (at) gmail.com
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Many thanks, Dave!! I’ve been manually adjusting the levels – time consuming, but so far the best approach…. THANK YOU!
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