
bennychico11
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Don't worry, this isn't one of those "i have a computer in my room, how do I get rid of the noise?"
Rather, I was working on this project today (audio for video) where the video was shot inside a Sam's Club store. The client didn't have the money originally to have me work on the audio, so only video work was done on it. Needless to say they were disappointed in the audio when it was played back in a large theater. They said the rumble noise of the store was very distracting.
In the future they want to avoid this and the guy who recorded the audio said "well, they should have fixed it in Pro Tools"....of course, I couldn't because I never touched the project.
The location audio guy said next time he plans on trying to take another microphone faced 180 degrees the other way and place it coincident with the other mic. He thinks that doing so will help get rid of the noise when we blend the two together but also keep the voice normal (cancelling the noise out).
Assuming he means to use two shot gun microphones, I can't see that this will produce a better result because of a) how directional the shot gun mics are and b) how unpredictable room noise is.
I was able to show them that I can just simply EQ out mostly all of the rumble that would play back in theater subs.
Anyone think that his idea would work better? I'm sure they're going to come back to me and say "should we try this."
My recommendation was just to use a body mic along with the shotgun, but location guys seem to hate doing this.


Rather, I was working on this project today (audio for video) where the video was shot inside a Sam's Club store. The client didn't have the money originally to have me work on the audio, so only video work was done on it. Needless to say they were disappointed in the audio when it was played back in a large theater. They said the rumble noise of the store was very distracting.
In the future they want to avoid this and the guy who recorded the audio said "well, they should have fixed it in Pro Tools"....of course, I couldn't because I never touched the project.
The location audio guy said next time he plans on trying to take another microphone faced 180 degrees the other way and place it coincident with the other mic. He thinks that doing so will help get rid of the noise when we blend the two together but also keep the voice normal (cancelling the noise out).
Assuming he means to use two shot gun microphones, I can't see that this will produce a better result because of a) how directional the shot gun mics are and b) how unpredictable room noise is.
I was able to show them that I can just simply EQ out mostly all of the rumble that would play back in theater subs.
Anyone think that his idea would work better? I'm sure they're going to come back to me and say "should we try this."
My recommendation was just to use a body mic along with the shotgun, but location guys seem to hate doing this.

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