Hi Folks,
I'm relatively new and just finished a solo science fiction, The Chessmen of Mars. One of the chapters I recorded has significantly different sound quality than all the others (IMHO). Is there a way to determine the average properties of a file (or portion thereof) and apply those properties to the file that does not have the same quality? I use Goldwave software but do have Audacity on the machine also.
To hear what I'm talking about at
http://librivox.org/the-chessmen-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/
listen to a few seconds of 01a - Tara in a Tantrum - 00:26:45,
then listen to a few seconds of 02 - At the Gale’s Mercy - 00:26:23
The rest of the chapters all sound like Chapter 02, except for Chapter 01a, and I'll be digged if I can figure out what effect to apply to the file to correct it.
Thanks
Y2K
How do I match quality of sound recorded two different times
It sounds to me, as if 1a was recorded at a lower volume and the background noise was therefore at a higher ratio to the voice, and hence affected the voice more. Does that make sense?
If that is the case, I don't think there is anything you can do to make 1a "sound" like the other chapters. Except... (you know what I am going to say) re-record it.
But let's see if anyone else has any better ideas.
Ruth
If that is the case, I don't think there is anything you can do to make 1a "sound" like the other chapters. Except... (you know what I am going to say) re-record it.
But let's see if anyone else has any better ideas.
Ruth
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Hi Ruth,
I'm getting the same answer from some outside of LV. My son-in-law is a professional graphic design and they have voice talent that this happens with occasionally, and yes, it looks like a, gulp, re-record. The chapter was done early on in my LV career and I've gotten "smarter" about settings, mic placement, checking, and double-checking before I actually get into it.
Thanks for your advice.
Y2K
I'm getting the same answer from some outside of LV. My son-in-law is a professional graphic design and they have voice talent that this happens with occasionally, and yes, it looks like a, gulp, re-record. The chapter was done early on in my LV career and I've gotten "smarter" about settings, mic placement, checking, and double-checking before I actually get into it.
Thanks for your advice.
Y2K
Oh yes, it's always frightful to go back to your first recordings, after a time... I think most of us don't like listening to our first efforts - even though I was happy enough with them at the time...
Positive side to it: it makes you realize the progress you make!
Positive side to it: it makes you realize the progress you make!
What Ruth describes is called the signal-to-noise ratio. Signal isy2kdaddio wrote: and yes, it looks like a, gulp, re-record. The chapter was done early on
in my LV career and I've gotten "smarter" about settings, mic placement,
checking, and double-checking before I actually get into it.
your voice. "Noise", in this context, means the uniform hum or hiss
that is created by analog circuitry (not background noises such as the
dog barking). You want this ratio to be as high as possible. The
main way you do that, as you're learning, is to turn up the recording
volume as high as possible, but not so high that the signal gets
clipped (you may find useful the draft, illustrated document
The How and Why of Setting the Input Volume Level for a Recording).
If the ratio of this hiss or hum type noise in your Chapter 01a is
moderately low, then a good noise reduction filter (aka, noise cleaning)
should help a lot.
Your question is similar to anthonysvoice's current Question about
recording in this forum. You may find my post there of interest; it includes
more on using software to correct differences between recordings.
I usually make up a "script" version of the text, and at the very beginning I would make a note of all (hardware and software) level settings, and exactly what angle my mic boom was at. That helped a lot to get consistency.
There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.
Thanks for the feedback Planish. I'm finding the biggest variable in my recording is the position and location of the microphone. I have it mounted on a drummer's boom. I have determined that it should be a specific height and marked a spot on the computer table where I place the base. That eliminates that variable at least.
Y2K
Y2K