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Too much reflection, too much of the room in the signal. Sounds like he's in a large, brick building.
 
Actually, the real sound is VERY dry. I've been playing with adding reverb, and probably rendered this with a bit too much. I'll re-render with less.
 
Yeah, reverb is one of those things that must be used sparingly, and with specific intent.

With a video like this, might I ask why you felt the reverb was needed?

I usually equate 'verb with a more distant feel. For something that's a personal address like this, dry dialog makes for a more intimate feel. And especially considering that productions like these are usually show in conference/meeting halls, which will have a natural reverb all their own, anything added to the signal will just get muddled.
 
C2V said:
By the way... like the lighting. His Honor blinks WAY too much, though...
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Well, the lighting got screwed. He asked for a desk to put his notes on. So we got him one. But then he scooted up to it, and right away from the hairlight and the reflector fill! I wrote about it on here in a thread. It was an important lesson for me. The blinking was in response to the lights I think. He's not a pro at this. And my assistant for the shoot turned off the room lights which I had intentionally left on. I had wanted to leave enough ambient light in the room to ease the talent's eyes. Another live and learn deal.

I re-rendered it with just a "hint" of reverb because the dry audio just sounds like it needed a little something. There is not a hint of EQ on this at all though. That is a VERY good representation of his voice with no work on it at all.

I'm going to post 20-30 seconds of the new one and see what you guys think.
 
Yep,

You guys are probably right. I'm already rendering the full version now without reverb. Any other thoughts on the "sound" of it? Clean enough? Seemingly miced well? I am quite new to trying to get professional level audio sound out of my gear.

Anything you guys hear that is strange? There is something there I know about and I am wondering if you could might give a careful listen and see if you can detect it.
 
JordanBlock said:
Sounds much better without the reverb.
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Yes it does, more presence and I think it'll project better, be clearer if it's to be played to a group in a reverberant room, especially to listeners off to each side of the player. Too much track reverb tends to conflict with a live room.

Is there a tad too much top end boost, around the 6kHz area?

OT, a couple of judicious cut-aways might emphasis his points do you think? Great quality pix.

Cheers.
 
I didn't add any boost at all. So anything there is from the microphone itself. Microphone is about 3" out of frame on top.

I ran a B-Camera on this, but didn't like what I got at all. So I scrapped it for the final. I had run it camera right about 30 degrees and in tight. I just couldn't get what I wanted, and didn't have an opportunity to try to match the cameras at all.

I am going to have to work on my 2-camera shoots a bit more. It's very new to me.

Thanks for the comments and the compliment. If you didn't know what I was shooting with, what would you guess for camera and microphone?

-P

Raster said:
Yes it does, more presence and I think it'll project better, be clearer if it's to be played to a group in a reverberant room, especially to listeners off to each side of the player. Too much track reverb tends to conflict with a live room.

Is there a tad too much top end boost, around the 6kHz area?

OT, a couple of judicious cut-aways might emphasis his points do you think? Great quality pix.

Cheers.
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