Bob Weekes
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Thanks for your advice guys. I know, not wearing headphones was an amateur mistake. The issue was that it was my first “professional” wedding job and I was already stressed and bogged down with equipment, so I just didn’t want to add to the clunkiness. The headphones you brought up sound like a great solution though, and I will definitely look into it for the future. I think I pretty much “solved” the problem: I ran a AUlowpass filter on the clip through Final Cut, cutting the frequency off at 4000. This seems to greatly undercut the buzzing noise. The audio sounds more tinny of course and not nearly as deep, but at least the buzzing is pretty much entirely gone. As far as I’m concerned, some less than stellar audio is better that unusable audio. I was wondering if this means anything to anyone, does it indicate what the problem may have been? I’m assuming the buzzing was occurring as the volume of the vocalist mic hit a higher end frequency.
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Okay, a brief update. I ran a AUlowpass filter on the clip through Final Cut, cutting the frequency off at 4000. This seems to greatly undercut the buzzing noise. The audio sounds more tinny of course and not nearly as deep, but at least the buzzing is MOSTLY gone. I was wondering if this means anything to anyone, does it indicate what the problem may have been? I’m curious so that I can correct this in the future.
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No, unfortunately I wasn’t wearing headphones. I know an amateur mistake. Now that I’m listening to it through the camera, the buzzing is still there…but there really wasn’t anything I could have adjusted in camera to change it, as the buzzing occurs on the vocals no matter what the dB. I think it may be a problem with the bass mix, as it is the sort of sound a stereo makes when you’ve turned the bass up too high. Is there an easy way to drop the bass down to test this out?
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I attempted the dePopper, but unfortunately it didn’t do anything at all. Now that I’ve been listening to it a bit longer, I would describe it more as an irritating BUZZING noise. This occurs ANYTIME someone sings into the mic, even softly. To make matters more confounding, I had someone recording extra shots here and there on a low-quality minidv camcorder as a backup, and the vocalist audio quality on that (other than having ridiculously loud ambience and background noise) sounds FAR better…I’m really stumped about this one. Could it be an audio capturing issue?