[Ty Ford]

Richard,

I tried it for that particular purpose but was not impressed.

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Peter,

Thanks for the detailed analysis. I know Brendan appreciates it.

There is De-Verb, an SPL plugin. I’ve tried it and my response is, “not so much.”

I have tried a lot of things to “de-roomify” a track. None with much luck.

George Massenburg designed a multi-band noise reduction filter for Disney a number of years ago that actually could reduce some reverb. It was a very special 6 band expander with other attributes.

Digidesign’s BNR has a lot more than six expanders. You might fiddle around with that, but no guarantees.

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Hello Karen and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I’ve done screen grabs from the iTunes Visualizer for arty backgrounds to soundtracks.

I used iShowU HD to do the grab.

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Hello David and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

What about the Sony cardioid do you not like?

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Hello Steve and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I’m a veteran of the “go into a school with two cameras and shoot a classroom full of kids” event.

I very much like Peter’s method for exactly the reasons he states. In addition, I would like to add a wireless lav on the host to one track of one of the cameras, especially if he/she will be herding the conversions. Even if he/she is not on camera at the specific moment his/her speaking begins, that’s OK. You have solid audio and can edit around that in post.

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Hello Segun and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

I will echo Peter Groom’s concern. “Warning WIll Robinson!”

If you actually expect each person in a six person crew to talk and make it happen in post, you need to have a separate recorder capable or recording as many tracks as you need at any given point. Preferably with timecode.

If two groups will be active at the same time, then double the figures.

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Hello Matthew and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Lavs by Countryman (EMW and B6), Sanken (COS-11) and Tram (TR50) will serve you well.

Sony ECM 77B, 88B

Audio Techinca: AT AT803B, AT898, AT899 & BP896.

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Noah’s right. 11k 8 bit files are hugely ugly for audio quality. Some phone systems are pretty gnarly though.

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I’m on the phone with Lectrosonics’ Gordon Moore.

As we are talking, he says, and I agree, that this sounds like a bad capacitor somewhere. He has heard it in a microphone but that it could also be in any part of the audio chain; mic, wireless, mixer, camera input, etc.

Gordon said he ran into something like that before, when at a certain temperature, after being on a certain amount of time, the conditions for the capacitor to begin discharging would occur. As the circuit heated up more, the frequency of discharge would increase.

He suggests that you try to duplicate the problem at a different location to confirm that it wasn’t some sort of local, external interference, but thinks it was a capacitor. He also asked to add the sound to his very interesting collection of weird audio disruptions.

Whether you find the culprit or not, you may contact him directly, at gordon@lectrosonics.com

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Noah,

“I love it when a plan comes together.” reference: The A-Team, Hannibal Smith.

Thanks again for all of your great responses!

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