{"id":9794,"date":"2016-10-07T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T23:25:12","slug":"improving-low-quality-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/improving-low-quality-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"improving low-quality live recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at Clallam Bay Comicon, I did “USSR” for the first time, as a karaoke track. When I got back, I posted a video of the live USSR performance on Tumblr<\/a>, taken off of audience camera.<\/p>\n

And that was fun, but the sound quality was pretty bad, because it was just the on-camera microphone. Plus, the camera did things like make automatic-recording-level adjustments throughout, which means the backing track is pulsing all over the place.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be cleaning up some other, similar live recordings for some other people this weekend, so I’ve had a go at this<\/em> audio, just to warm up and see what I can do with it. That’s meant a lot<\/em> of level-control automation, heavy use of a multiband compressor (and a high-pass filter to get rid of most of an occasional rumble from… somewhere…), a bit of reverb to smooth out some of the sample rate issues, and a lot of EQ work.<\/p>\n

I’m going to massage it a bit more, I think? But I’m reasonably happy with what I’ve managed so far. The amount of surprise audio-level changes is down a lot<\/em>, I’ve brought back the low end and some of the high end, there’s even a hint of kick to the bassline now – though I wonder if I’ve over<\/em>-built that at the moment. It mostly sounds okay but I’m not sure it’s so great on anything that does a lot of bass boost, like some gaming headphones.<\/p>\n

Anyway, what do you think? I’ll re-upload the live video with the improved\/massaged audio if enough other people think it’s better enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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