Hi everyone!
I'm having a little trouble with the dialogue in one of my scenes and was hoping some of the audio experts here could point me in the right direction towards making this all fit together.
Below are 4 separate dialogue tracks that all mix together for the complete scene - at the moment there's a distinct difference between them and whilst I've spent some time clumsily EQ'ing them I've yet to come up with anything that sounded good so I figured it's time to defer to more learned minds than my own
These are the tracks as recorded (i.e. without my 'experiments') with +5db gain added:
HotD_Sc18_Blake.wav: This was recorded fairly close and since the actor has quite a deep voice it's got a lot of low-end - sounds a little 'dead' and is noticeably different from the wide track.
HotD_Sc18_Dexter.wav: Recorded close again only this actor has a higher-pitched more nasally voice so it doesn't sound quite so out of place when mixed with the wide track.
HotD_Sc18_Waitress.wav: This actresses voice is a little muted and indistinct (even though she was recorded up close) - I'm looking to enhance it to make it more pleasing/fitting.
HotD_Sc18_Wide.wav: Recorded (necessarily) from a distance and seems to have some slight reverb - I'm guessing that it'd be easier to match the other tracks to this one to make it all seamless but I'm not entirely sure of how best to do that.
HotD_Sc18_All.wav: The four tracks above combined into a single mono track. All tracks are 58MB 24/48kHz.
Any and all advice would be gratefully received!
P.S. I'm using Audacity and Sony Vegas for my audio editing - not the best tools but I've got access to some good compressors/limiters and graphic/parametric EQ's - I've read up on and understand the processes to an extent but my main issue here is a lack of experience and a trained ear...
P.P.S. Oops - meant to post this in Post-Production... *doh!*
I'm having a little trouble with the dialogue in one of my scenes and was hoping some of the audio experts here could point me in the right direction towards making this all fit together.
Below are 4 separate dialogue tracks that all mix together for the complete scene - at the moment there's a distinct difference between them and whilst I've spent some time clumsily EQ'ing them I've yet to come up with anything that sounded good so I figured it's time to defer to more learned minds than my own
These are the tracks as recorded (i.e. without my 'experiments') with +5db gain added:
HotD_Sc18_Blake.wav: This was recorded fairly close and since the actor has quite a deep voice it's got a lot of low-end - sounds a little 'dead' and is noticeably different from the wide track.
HotD_Sc18_Dexter.wav: Recorded close again only this actor has a higher-pitched more nasally voice so it doesn't sound quite so out of place when mixed with the wide track.
HotD_Sc18_Waitress.wav: This actresses voice is a little muted and indistinct (even though she was recorded up close) - I'm looking to enhance it to make it more pleasing/fitting.
HotD_Sc18_Wide.wav: Recorded (necessarily) from a distance and seems to have some slight reverb - I'm guessing that it'd be easier to match the other tracks to this one to make it all seamless but I'm not entirely sure of how best to do that.
HotD_Sc18_All.wav: The four tracks above combined into a single mono track. All tracks are 58MB 24/48kHz.
Any and all advice would be gratefully received!
P.S. I'm using Audacity and Sony Vegas for my audio editing - not the best tools but I've got access to some good compressors/limiters and graphic/parametric EQ's - I've read up on and understand the processes to an extent but my main issue here is a lack of experience and a trained ear...
P.P.S. Oops - meant to post this in Post-Production... *doh!*
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