How to "muffle" dialogue in Adobe Audition

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fanaticalproductions

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Hey

I've never used Audition before (my uni has it though), and I need to know how to muffle dialogue (an argument with fairly loud voices, recorded in normal conditions) to make it sound like it's coming from a different room on the floor below.

I figure I would just have to play around with the low and low-mid frequencies in the EQ, but I'm not even sure how to change the EQ in Audition, so any help will be appreciated.

It would also be helpful if someone could tell me how to make the EQ gradually go back to 'normal' over a period of a 4 or 5 seconds.


Thanks
 
You might try "worldizing" the dialog. Play in back through a speaker setup in another room and re-record it. Really! It's a common technique in theatrical feature sound design.
 
Knock off some of the to-end (parametric EQ works well for this), and add some reverb. Keep the EQ'd and reverbed dialogue on a sepperate track, so that when you wish to remove the effect, you need only stop putting dialogue on that track. Alternately, you could automate the EQ and reverb plugin parrameters to bring the dialogue into a more immediate space.

"Worldizing" is certainly an option, although you really need a decent stereo pair, a good playback system and a quiet location. If you do "worldize" the dialogue, be sure to keep a "dry" version of the dialgue on a sepperate track, so that you can still use the other techniques in addition to the re-recorded tracks.
 
I guarantee the practical "worldizing" version will be 99% more realistic and convincing than what you will come up with digitally. You don't even need a stereo setup. Just play back your sound in one room and record in the other. Mix in the room mic with the dry version to taste.

I'm not saying that you can't do it digitally but getting a good non-fake sounding room verb is not trivial.
 
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