Audio trick?

[exonprovence]

Hey, my name is Tim. I've recently aquired a dvx100b and just finished shooting a few scenes of a new movie i've been working on.

Here's the question. I'm a FCP editor and I was wondering how it would be possible to simulate that "music through a stereo sound" in post, instead of having to grab audio by actually mic'ing a stereo. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ProfessorChaos]

if you want it to sound radio like...

add the audio in fcp and apply a few filters like bandpass, a little reverb, and find a little static sfx off the net and loop that in a seperate audio track.

if u want it just to sound like music...

add the audio to the part where u want the audio to come in and cut it where u want it to stop...

 

[Jeremy Ordan]

Hello and welcome to DVXUser. We have a great search tool that will help you, as this question has been asked in other forms a couple of times in the past few weeks. Here are a couple of posts that might be able to assist you:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=37259
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=34901
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=34583
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=32498

There were two other threads that I was looking for, but gave up before I found them.

In addition to the advice you will find in these threads there are really two solid options that you have available. Actually three options, but one isn't very good.

Option 1: Best Option is to actually record the song through the stereo. This will generate the most authentic recreation. Once the audio is played it becomes analog hence more realistic sound creation.

Option 2: Compression, Limiter, Reverb, and EQ. I would personally use Sound Forge for this, but seeing as how you are on FCP there are a couple of mac AIF editors that should work very well for you. I believe wavelab from Steinberg is available on mac. That should work well for you as well. I would also look at noise gates, vinyl restore plugins, as well as same rate adjusting. There is a lot that you can do to muddy up a sound and make it sound like it is coming through something else.

Option 3: This is the one I'm not crazy about, but I have heard it done a lot. Say screw it, and just use the original recording. You could lower the sample rate of use a vinyl restore plug in to generate some noise, but this could work as well.

Well that's my $1.25 (sometimes things are more than two pennies). The best thing I can say is to experiment. See what you can come up with, because sometimes the most simple solutions end up being the best.

Welcome aboard!

 

[exonprovence]

if you want it to sound radio like...

add the audio in fcp and apply a few filters like bandpass, a little reverb, and find a little static sfx off the net and loop that in a seperate audio track.

if u want it just to sound like music...

add the audio to the part where u want the audio to come in and cut it where u want it to stop...

I'm going for the radio sound. Its for a scene where theres a kid sitting in his room and his sister is trying to knock sense into him, so the radio sound is sort of a good mood-setter and establishes the fact that the kid thinks he has better things to do with his time.

Option 1: Best Option is to actually record the song through the stereo. This will generate the most authentic recreation. Once the audio is played it becomes analog hence more realistic sound creation.

Option 2: Compression, Limiter, Reverb, and EQ. I would personally use Sound Forge for this, but seeing as how you are on FCP there are a couple of mac AIF editors that should work very well for you. I believe wavelab from Steinberg is available on mac. That should work well for you as well. I would also look at noise gates, vinyl restore plugins, as well as same rate adjusting. There is a lot that you can do to muddy up a sound and make it sound like it is coming through something else.

Thanks for the tips, I'll probably see what messing around with compression rates, etc sounds like in an editor. If not, i'll just throw a condenser in front of a radio