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help cleaning up a live recording on mobile

Mytt88

Mytt88

Jan 18, 2011
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#1
hi all I am wondering if anyone knows tips for getting the best sound from pre recorded audio from a dslr camera and mobile phone. I set up my camera on a tripod and hit record then separated the audio and put it into reaper using some plugins to clean it up a bit.

The audio is already recorded so "buy a new mic" isn't the advice i need although i will be getting one in the future.

So far i have used waves plugins ns1 noise suppressor and l2 limiter as well as playing around with eq and have made some improvement. any other ideas?
 
#2
Noise reduction and EQ are definitely the best tools to make it work, but just a word about expectations--it will never sound like a studio recording--so you have to think of it as a different end product. You can always add a little echo if you've got signal (rather than reverb), but the toughest job is dealing with audio that is too far away. In those cases, it's really trial and error--but be prepared to cut your losses.
 
#3
What type of music you're dealing with? Live rock band or solo acoustic guitar?

High-pass filter around 40Hz to get rid of the rumble, some stereo widener above 500Hz, and everything under 120Hz to mono, check if there's muddiness (150Hz) boxiness (300-500Hz) or honkiness (700Hz) and eq those out. Some compression. :)
 
#5
It's an alice in chains tribute band so it's fairly heavy. it's just for us to listen back to for picking up mistakes and how we can improve. not expecting miracles just what can be done to make it easier to listen to.

I shall try these tips thanks. feel free to keep them coming
 
#7
jfn77 said:
What type of music you're dealing with? Live rock band or solo acoustic guitar?

High-pass filter around 40Hz to get rid of the rumble, some stereo widener above 500Hz, and everything under 120Hz to mono, check if there's muddiness (150Hz) boxiness (300-500Hz) or honkiness (700Hz) and eq those out. Some compression. :)
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If only the DSLR-mic has recorded anything sub 200 hz at all and not already compressed everything to death...
If that's the case I would add some low-end information with a kind of bass-enhancer tool.
It's really a shame that even mid-price and higher price DSLR cams - as brilliant as the quality of the films is - have such a crappy tone quality. I have the Canon EOS 750D.
 
#9
The biggest problem with mobile phone audio is the auto gain. It can sound ok with a single acoustic guitar until a drum or bass kicks in and suddenly the guitar volume drops away or similar problems. You can't fix that in reaper.
 
#10
BAG said:
The biggest problem with mobile phone audio is the auto gain. It can sound ok with a single acoustic guitar until a drum or bass kicks in and suddenly the guitar volume drops away or similar problems. You can't fix that in reaper.
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Well actually you can always write volume automation to the track. Naturally you can't change the volume between instruments. For that you need a multitrack recording. But the volume changes to stereo track is quite easy fix with volume automation. https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&sour...CB0wAQ&usg=AFQjCNHe8tfgCoF-JYDOSajowUOT4bDcuQ
 
#11
You could do so to a certain extent but the pulsing sound you get from an auto gain recording device is difficult to overcome and the time and effort spent to do so will still just yeild a slightly less crappy recording.... not a good one by any means.
 
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