[Ty Ford]

NIck,

Did you ever ask me about this?

Ebay is a good way to go. I have some cardboard LP mailers if you need one.

I used Chris Armbruster, here near us, to sell off a hundred or so LPs a few years back. He might know what the BF LP is going for these days.

410.627.6017. Tell him I said hi!

Regards,

Ty

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Joe,

I do have the original Mom’s Apple Pie!

and the bricked up version.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello David and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Unless you had the mic pan switches in Left and Right for those two inputs, you did not.

If they were in the center position, you recorded both mics to both tracks; dual mono.

If you were listening and heard each mic in a different headphone, you may have recorded them split left and right unless the input configuration of your camera was not set properly.

If you play the file back in the camera, do you hear each voice on a different side? If so, adjust the mixer pan controls to full left and right.

If the two waveforms for left and right appear identical, then you’re hosed. If they appear to indicate level shifts from one track to the next, then you have a FCP mixer pan adjustment to make.

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Christopher,

Try peaking the EQ around 3kHz and a little on each side of that. That’s where we hear most of the voice.

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Chris,

I know of no technology that will suppress existing music enough to not make that sound like a jumble.

TV shows like CSI do it all the time, but it’s still fiction.

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Hello Christopher and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Why do you want to mess with the show master? Was it not properly mixed?

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Hello Eugene and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

No. Noise canceling headphones are designed to reduce your awareness of ambient noise around you.

That’s precisely what you don’t want. They are not taking the noise out of your audio, just out of your headphone feed. Plus they do so by using phase cancellation and that will prevent you from hearing real phase cancellation cause by reflected and direct sounds mixing before they get to your mic or phase cancellation cause by two people talking into their own mics who are standing too close together.

Repeat: Just say NO to noise canceling headphones!!!!

Now, if you want isolation so you can better hear what the mic is hearing instead of what’s leaking in around your headphones, get closed back phones or David Clark PASSIVE noise ATTENUATING headphones. Active will only get you into trouble.

https://www.davidclarkcompany.com/aviation/helicopter-passive.php

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Steve,

Sounds very good here.

Because they are really close, you wouldn’t have to move the mic. Positioning it the way you did works just fine.

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Hello Terry and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

A lot depends on the space and the voices of the interviewees.

To look good on camera, they’ll have to sit closer to each other than they expected. That can help you.

If the room is very reverberant, pick another room or bring sound blankets for the floor, and any other hard flat surface, including the ceiling.

Boom mics: Your MKH 50 Best to move the mic. Maybe use a boom buddy and position it behind the camera so you can swing it left and right a bit each time. If their voices are similar in volume, great! Just hang the mic between them. If one is louder than the other then hang the mic closer to the quieter one.

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Ian,

FCP probably can’t do this elegantly, and it would take a long time if there are many overly sibilant moments, but I have done the following in ProTools.

isolate the overly sibilant sounds on the timeline. Cut on either side of them so the moments are separate files. Reduce the gain by 8dB or so (whatever works, sometimes I have decreased by 12 dB!)

You have to be very careful when choosing edit points, and I’m not sure how well FCP handles the crossover at the edit points. Worth a shot.

Maybe if you exported that part of the video, de-essed it and then flew it back in?

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Ty Ford
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