Mixing mono track from a video recorder

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2015/10/27 05:14:12 (permalink)

Mixing mono track from a video recorder

i everyone,
 
I have video footage of a show I did and unfortunately I didn't get a good board recording. The mono audio from the camera isn't as terrible as I feared and it's all I have to work with. My intent was to bring it into X1pro and try some presets from Ozone 4 and see if I can get a starting point to bring this to life a bit. I will then merge the audio back with the video for posting on youtube.
 
I was wondering if there are any standard techniques or approaches to dealing with mono live audio like this?
 
thanks for any help you can provide,
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    Re: Mixing mono track from a video recorder 2015/10/28 13:14:21 (permalink)
    Some creative de-reverberation and gating will probably be called for. Simply because the camera's microphone is so far away from the source the biggest issue will be crowd and room sounds. Of course, if it was a dead room and a loud band, these will be less of a problem.
     
    There are tools for removing excessive reverberation, but they're expensive. iZotope RX and Zynaptic Unveil are the big ones. SPL De-verb is cheap, but I don't know much about it.
     
    On the cheap, you may be able to get away with careful use of a multi-band compressor. The one you have in Ozone 4 is a good place to start.
     
    I'd be very cautious about using Ozone's limiter to boost volume, though. Be sure to do A/B comparisons as you go, listening to the limiter being in and out (and volume-compensated) to make sure it's really helping. The camera probably has an AGC and/or limiter built into it, so you don't want to be fighting that.


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