Willie Toth
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I can’t agree more when it comes to a good mic pre and a large diaphragm mic, but in the end if you don’t have a good announcing voice to begin with all of this is for not ……… WILLIE
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I have been using a Layla for years and am sold on it … With the G-3 there are 2 ways to go, PCI or Firewire check with Echo to make sure your chipset is compatible with the PCI unit … From what I was told by Echo, the firewire hasn’t any compatibility issues to speak of … Here is the link for the unit …
https://www.americanmusical.com/item.aspx?i=ECH%20LAYLA3G
Here is the link for Echo
WILLIE
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First you need the basic voice but try adding a couple of db of low end via the PARAMETRIC EQ and then a bit of reverb …. WILLIE
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Personally I use a Layla, but I have had a lot of luck with just a simple soundblaster card … Check and make sure that your settings on your windows mixer and on your soundcard mixer are not causing it to go into saturation … It’s a long shot but it doesn’t hurt to look at everything ………… WILLIE
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Mark,
I hear a bit of distortion, but other then that it’s not bad … It might be a good idea to lower the record volume a couple of db … Isn’t it amazing how one mans story can be your own ……. WILLIE
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With audio my rule of thumb, “less is more” sounds like you are over processing to me, but then I don’t know what you are starting with either … I can tell you any hard limit or normalizing comes last, noise reduction should be at the top of the list, (if needed of course) then EQ with in most cases requires very little if recorded proberly and then it’s usually just pulling a bit of mid range out … Then as I said do a hard limit at -1db … You should be recording your VO at between -6 to -15db and you are best off using an outboard compressor/limitor in-lu-of processing after the fact at least this has been very effective for me …….. WILLIE
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I would do PARAMETRIC, then HARD LIMITING ……… WILLIE
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I have conversed with Adobe in length, (not in sales but people actually working on 3.0) and it is supposed to be vista compliant but I am sticking with XP for at least a year before changing over … It is my understanding that all the issues with 2.0 are going to be resolved … As it stands right now I won’t use 2.0 because of crashes and an assortment of “mystery problems” … It will be sold as a stand alone program … Adobe decided to do this watered down version because it was too complicated for a large majority of video guys, (sorry don’t mean any disrespect here) … Personally I don’t get someone who spends a ton of time on video and looks at audio as a secondary function of the video when in reality you can shoot the best video ever shot but if your audio sucks your video is pretty much worthless, again no disrespect, Just one mans opinion but after producing a TV show for over 2 years, (doing all the shooting, editing, and music) I stand by my statement ………. WILLIE
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I would use the noise removal but make sure you capture JUST THE HUM first ……….. WILLIE
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Background crowd noise can be hard because it spans the same frequencies you want to keep … As far as I can hear it isn’t that bad, the clicking drives me more nuts than that but that can be taken out using the single click removal tool in spectral view … You may be able to get some of the background noise out in spectral mode also … If you have a place in your recording that just is background try this … Highlight just the noise then go into the noise removal filter and capture then OK … Now go back and highlight the whole audio clip open the noise removal filter again click on preview and experiment with how much you want to remove, I would start with about 50% or back it off just before the music starts getting ugly … From there open the filters and use the parametric … I would take a bit of midrange out but you may want to experiment and see what sounds good to your ears but make sure your system has bass and treble on zero or flat … Next I would use the hard limit filter with the max limit set to -1db and boost to 6db … You want to preview to make sure it isn’t too hot … Remember be careful with adding or subtracking mid lows or highs since the average stereo speaker doesn’t have the flat responce that is needed for proper eq … Most of the time use the “Less is more” concept and all will be good … Your hard limit will fatten things up and give it some dynamic’s ………. WILLIE