• Welcome
  • About
  • Shows
  • Photos
  • Producer's Notes
  • Contact
  • Welcome
  • About
  • Shows
  • Photos
  • Producer's Notes
  • Contact

Episode 6 Wrap Up

7/3/2015

1 Comment

 
Episode 6 was shot in the afternoon. The outside temperature was in the 90’s, so all the air conditioning was running. We turned off the studio air conditioning while the cameras were running, but there was a fan and a vent that were controlled from a different source. The following week we learned they could be turned off by a will switch next to the switch that controlled the ON AIR light. In any event, this extra environmental noise made it necessary to delve into noise reduction.

It turns out; the default settings in Premiere Pro for noise reduction are pretty heavy handed. It gets rid of almost all of the noise, but leaves a lot of phase cancellation and other artifacts on what’s left. I imported these files into Cubase and spent a lot of time with EQ, gates, and compression, trying to get a more natural sound. I finally got an acceptable audio track, but the process took a lot of work. Then one evening, I was watching an Audacity tutorial and I realized that noise reduction is a compromise between the threshold and sensitivity settings. The less noise reduction, the fewer artifacts left on the audio. So, by settling for a very small amount of noise, you reduce the time spent repairing the audio track! Something to try for Episode 7.

1 Comment
Quincy Follweiler link
7/3/2015 12:10:00 am

Interesting set of circumstances. They say that it's always better to try and deal with those types of noise issues on the front end rather than in post but sometimes there is no help. Gates, compression and Noise reduction plugins can be a tricky thing but are great tools when needed. They do have the tendency to suck the life out of a performance if they set too heavy. Looking forward to E6.

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Click here to visit the show's Youtube channel.

    Archives

    June 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014

Proudly powered by Weebly