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I have a question.

I recorded some words from 2 different computers with different mics. This resulted in 2 different sets of audio sounds. If I can use the words to make a sentence, you can tell which set they came from. Is there a program or way to make both audio sets sound the same or similar? :)

Thanks.
 
Maybe, it depends on the differences. EQing one or the other or both may get you close enough for your purposes. If there's noise in one or the other, you might be able to eliminate it enough to be acceptable -

Download Reaper, pull your tracks into it and start EQing. Make some coffee - the way you worded this makes me think you're about to be seriously overwhelmed.

good luck! :)
 
Thanks for that advice. I put 3 files of each set (total 6 files) in the program. But I am unsure what u mean by EQing or how to do that? Is there a way to batch process something?
 
To be clear here is a small example.

I recorded 'apple', 'banana', 'orange' on COMPUTER 1
I recorded 'cat', 'dog', 'fish' on COMPUTER 2
the 'apple' group audio all sound similar but different than the 'cat' group.
Even though it was my voice, they sound different depending on the mic and computer used to record them.

I want to make 'apple' sound similar to 'cat', like it was done using the same mic and computer. :) Of course I have tons of words i need to do. Easier to understand? :)
Thanks again.
 
Since you don't seem to know anything about post-recording sound treatment (ie EQ, etc) I would recommend you go back and rerecord everything with 1 mic.
 
greenkhan said:
To be clear here is a small example.

I recorded 'apple', 'banana', 'orange' on COMPUTER 1
I recorded 'cat', 'dog', 'fish' on COMPUTER 2
the 'apple' group audio all sound similar but different than the 'cat' group.
Even though it was my voice, they sound different depending on the mic and computer used to record them.

I want to make 'apple' sound similar to 'cat', like it was done using the same mic and computer. :) Of course I have tons of words i need to do. Easier to understand? :)
Thanks again.
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I know exactly what you mean. Look up equalization on wikipedia if you don't know what that is, and grab the manual for Reaper to see how to use it in that program. Short of copying stuff from those sources, I've told you the way to approach it that's most likely to be successful in as much detail as I can, really, no matter how you frame your question.

mjbphoto's suggestion may well take much less time than trying to learn all this all at once and possibly just find out you can't do it. Or you could take the tracks to somebody who is familiar with this stuff and have them do it in like 10 seconds, if it can even be done at all. It's not too complicated to try to match two signal chains sonically to an acceptable similarity - it may or may not be possible at all, however, depending on what's different and how similar "acceptable" is to you, and... well now I'm just repeating myself!
 
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Unless they already sound similar..
mjbphotos said:
...go back and rerecord everything with 1 mic.
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Or.. perhasps mangle them both with effects in some way that the effect swamps the differences.
 
I once re-mixed a re-mix. It ended up sounding exactly like the original. :eek:
 
If you want the recordings to sound the same, the only proper way to do it is to use not only the same mic, but the same room and setup.

Even recording in a different room can make your voice sound completely different and it can be very challenging to 'fix', if it's even possible.
 
When I heard those horns on the tube they didn't sound anything like a single one or two tooting away.
It was more like a wave of just noise like when you hit a single note on a guitar that is going through a delay stomp box and you move the infinite repeat and feedback switches to the max.
 
When I heard those horns on the tube they didn't sound anything like a single one or two tooting away.
It was more like a wave of just noise like when you hit a single note on a guitar that is going through a delay stomp box and you move the infinite repeat and feedback switches to the max.
 
@moresound: Was that meant for the "how to make 1 varuvuelaizuieujhauvuaueue (whatever it was called) sound like a hundred" thread?

Steenamaroo said:
it can be very challenging to 'fix', if it's even possible.
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That's basically what I was stumbling around trying to say, lol. Big *if* about it even being possible, but it's completely relative to what's "acceptable" to him... Trying to see if he can match them to acceptability won't make the world explode, and it might save him a bunch of time....if I couldn't match it close enough for whatever the purpose of this is within 10 seconds or so we'd be retracking.
 
Yeah kind of. I mean that noise of the thousands of varuvuelaizuieujhauvuaueues trumpeting was just one big wall of sound.
 
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