Wednesday 12 December 2007

Audio Problems

It appears that at the beginning of our documentary there is music playing in the background of the musuem, we didn't anticipate that the shot gun mic would pick this up as much as we thought.

I was asked to see if there was anyway to lower this sound and keep his voice the same, unfortunatly I wasn't able to do this, I tried using a bandpass filter to filter out certain frequency ranges, using the waves plugins however this affected Tony's voice too, If the background noise was at a higher frequency range or was a very low end sounding drone noise this would of being possibly by simply cutting out the frequencies using a bandpass filter from say 35Hz - 120Hz or 8KHz - 16KHz, however the background noise was quite loud and all over the place.

This has being a valuable learning experience, and something I will defintly learn from. Unfortunatly the only way around this would have being to re-record Tony's voice and then dub it over the top, due to time constraints this was not possible!

Audio Unedited:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/eddqzb

Audio Edited:
If you hear the examples the quality is seriously reduced and gives a filtered noise as expected. I could not think of any other way around this other than to automate the volume level throughout the audio to duck almost like a sidechaining effect everytime Tony speaks, I thought this would take way to long and the quality would most likely be unusable.

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