Re: Automatic EQ settings for recording dialog from different microphones -- question
- From: Marc Wielage <mfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:02:53 -0700
On Jun 28, 2007, mjbaldwin@xxxxxxxxx <mjbaldwin@xxxxxxxxx> commented:
I'm looking for a necessarily automatic solution that works on a file-
per-file basis, because I could eventually be working with thousands
of different microphones...
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I agree with most of the others. Another reason why an automatic mode can't
work is that the acoustics of each room in which the persons were recorded
will be vastly different from each other. Some will sound dull, some will
have a lot of echo, some will have hum and noise, some will have background
sounds, etc. No automatic device can independently EQ a voice on top of
these sounds and make them sound reasonable. You need to use your own ears
to make these choices.
The final
results are going to be *very* low-quality MP3s with added ambient
sounds (i.e. city street sounds, etc.) masking remaining noise.
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That is not going to make the final dialog more intelligible. Anything you
mix on top of the dialog is going to tend to interfere with it. To me, this
is like putting a dirty bandaid on top of the cut. Sure, you're covering up
the wound, but you're not really doing it any good.
I can see a need to mix in background sound if this were cutting back and
forth, like for a film or TV show, but it doesn't sound like this is what
you're doing.
--MFW
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