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Subject:Blown out audio Posted by: dvpage Date:2/6/2003 9:14:38 AM I am editing a video where the DJ screams into th mic and his voice is blown out. Everything else is fine how do I bring down just his voice with SF?
Subject:RE: Blown out audio Reply by: musicvid10 Date:2/6/2003 1:12:02 PM There is nothing very effective you can do about distortion. You can bring his voice down a bit relative to the rest of the track by applying moderate compression. That's about it.
Subject:RE: Blown out audio Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/7/2003 4:53:44 PM i guess it depends what you mean by 'blown out' - I will assume 'distorted'. There are several possibilities as to what has happened. 1 - The level was set too high and the recording has digitally clipped. 2 - The mic or mixer/preamp has distorted The answer is to not get into this situation in the first place. You could muck about with EQ and compression to reduce the dynamic range and filter out some of the distortion harmonics, but it's better to avoid distortion in the first place. If no distortion, then just the compression will even things out. geoff
Subject:RE: Blown out audio Reply by: philsayer Date:2/9/2003 4:52:05 AM If he "screams" into the mike, I assume it'd be no great loss if you simply reduce the volume of that part of the file... Highlight that part of the file, and use Volume to drop him by, at a guess, 10dB. That way, the rest of the audio is unaffected. If the drop is very noticeable, I'd use Fade Out and Fade In either side of the scream (maybe a second or so of each) to make it less obvious. Although compressing everything will reduce the relative loudness of the scream, the other audio will tend to "pump" and background noise, for example, will rise relative to wanted noise. Without knowing exactly what the project consists of, it's hard to be definitive, but I'm imagining a video shot at a party or function of some kind, maybe with people talking to the camera - also, most cameras have an auto-gain device, so there'll already be a degree of "compression" on the recording as the circuit seeks to set its "ideal" level.

Subject:Blown out audio

Posted by: dvpage

Date:2/6/2003 9:14:38 AM

I am editing a video where the DJ screams into th mic and his voice is blown out. Everything else is fine how do I bring down just his voice with SF?

Subject:RE: Blown out audio

Reply by: musicvid10

Date:2/6/2003 1:12:02 PM

There is nothing very effective you can do about distortion. You can bring his voice down a bit relative to the rest of the track by applying moderate compression. That's about it.

Subject:RE: Blown out audio

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/7/2003 4:53:44 PM

i guess it depends what you mean by 'blown out' - I will assume 'distorted'.

There are several possibilities as to what has happened.

1 - The level was set too high and the recording has digitally clipped.
2 - The mic or mixer/preamp has distorted

The answer is to not get into this situation in the first place. You could muck about with EQ and compression to reduce the dynamic range and filter out some of the distortion harmonics, but it's better to avoid distortion in the first place.

If no distortion, then just the compression will even things out.

geoff

Subject:RE: Blown out audio

Reply by: philsayer

Date:2/9/2003 4:52:05 AM

If he "screams" into the mike, I assume it'd be no great loss if you simply reduce the volume of that part of the file...

Highlight that part of the file, and use Volume to drop him by, at a guess, 10dB.

That way, the rest of the audio is unaffected. If the drop is very noticeable, I'd use Fade Out and Fade In either side of the scream (maybe a second or so of each) to make it less obvious.

Although compressing everything will reduce the relative loudness of the scream, the other audio will tend to "pump" and background noise, for example, will rise relative to wanted noise.

Without knowing exactly what the project consists of, it's hard to be definitive, but I'm imagining a video shot at a party or function of some kind, maybe with people talking to the camera - also, most cameras have an auto-gain device, so there'll already be a degree of "compression" on the recording as the circuit seeks to set its "ideal" level.