mullmuzzler Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Recently I came up with a task to enhance voice in some recording for a amateur movie that me and my pals filmed couple of weeks ago. The problem is in background noise and sounds that digital camera recorded VERY GOOD . So, I need some plug-in for the SF so I can enhance the voice and decrease volume in background music. If any of you have expirience in such tasks or any of you work in a studio, please post your advices and links. Thx in advance mullmuzzler | OSSMT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syxxstring Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 By searching through harmonycentral and google for free direct x plug ins my band found quite a few. used them with logic audio and not sound forge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necrovore Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 One thing you can do is split the audio into separate tracks. Voice over the vocal tracks. Did you record from the camera in stereo? One method you can try is removing the vocal channel(center) by splitting the main audio into stereo and taking one side and putting it into 180 degree out of phase with the other. This will usually remove any audio in the center. You can then re record the audio into a separate track. This will retain the background noise if you recorded into stereo. If you did not record the audio separate from the camera but used the camera's mic, here is a little trick you can do. Rip the audio into wav file ( you are using soundforge right?). Copy that file so you have 2 tracks of the same audio. Name one (whatever)a.wav and the other (whatever)b.wav Now play around with the noise gate and/or dynamics tools within SF. You can set one up so any of the vocals are lowered but lets the low noise(background) through(sort of like a reverse noise gate), while doing the opposite with the other. Then blend the two tracks. One little hint is to use a multi-tracking audio recording suite. the best for what you are doing is Nuendo as you can do all the audio engineering and once done while still in the suite attach it to your video using standard video compression or even SMPTE standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsl602000 Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe a multi band compressor can do the job... by compressing only the frequency the voice is in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullmuzzler Posted March 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 Thx, Necrovore, I did record with the camera's mic (the camera is 3xCCD Sony, a TV DV camera, so the audio is stereo recorded). I'll try your method and post the progress. In a meantime, if anyone has more suggestions, please post it here. Thx again. mullmuzzler | OSSMT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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