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Posted by Antony Lacey on 12/21/05 18:20
Martin Heffels <mitch.mcNeilljn@sprint.ca> wrote:
> >I think I read somewhere that aircraft engines are a frequency very
> >close to the human voice, and are the hardest thing to remove from an
> >audio track - can anyone confirm that?
>
> Aren't you answering your own question already? :) Think about it, if you
> start chopping in the frequencies which are in the spectrum of voice, the
> voice will get seriously affected.
Yes, but it was something I'd heard and couldn't remember the source,
just because I had problems with the voice and aircraft audio didn't
mean it was necessarily so - I could have just been doing a bad job! :-)
> >I'm just learning all about audio, I've never had to pay much attention
> >to it in my filming before, most of what I've filmed has been outdoor
> >activities, where the captured sound has been suitable.
>
> Good stuff. Sound is half the experience of a movie.
I would have argued that before I started this course - while I've
always enjoyed good sound (I was a musician from a young age and always
appreciated quality audio as opposed to any audio) I hadn't related that
to films and tv I enjoyed. Now I know better.
> It's fun to start "hearing" eh? It's something I dealt with while teaching
> my students, they never believed me. The one's who went into sound,
> gradually discovered that if you actually listen (concentrate on the
> sound), you hear so much more.
Indeed, and it makes anything you watch so much more interesting.
Creating it all is good fun too, the smallest touches can make very
large differences.
> >And the one thing I've avoided is recording while there are any aircraft
> >flying over - I did one take deliberately and tried to remove the
> >aircraft noise, almost impossible without making the voices sound like
> >strangled chickens!
>
> There you go, the proof is in the pudding :)
See above, my pudding could have had the wrong recipe to begin with.
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Antony
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