Basic audio adjustments for Stage Production?

briggs wrote on 4/28/2004, 10:04 AM
What are the basic (compression, eq, etc.) effects and settings you would use for the audio of a stage production?

The sound that I have to work with was all captured via a shotgun mic on a GL2 camera a few rows back from the middle front of the stage. I'm planning on using noise reduction to help reduce camera noise.

Is there a certain eq band I should emphasize/de-emphasize? Compression settings typically used? Envelopes to help with spoken lines that are way to loud/soft?

-thanks

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/28/2004, 4:47 PM
There are so many variables it would be impossible to advise in a gneral way...

geoff
briggs wrote on 4/28/2004, 7:21 PM
I'll bet there are typical approaches (general, not detailed) that some use for spoken audio from a distance such as this. But I have some other resources I can search, though, if it's still too general for anyone to respond to here.

Regards.
Cold wrote on 4/28/2004, 7:31 PM
What does it sound like to start with? Too much bass? Treble? Indesipherable lines? Here are some settings that may or may not help.
Cut the lows, bring the highs up a tad, add a bump in the high mids if nescessary, somewhere between 800hz and 3khz. Play with the noise reduction and compression together untill it seems right. The bump in the highs is simply to ballance out the noise reduction.
Steve S.
MJhig wrote on 4/28/2004, 7:45 PM
I'll bet there are typical approaches (general, not detailed) that some use for spoken audio from a distance such as this.

Absolutely not. Audio is not like most things technical. It all depends on the source. As stated before there are simply too many variables to give you anything but a far fetched guess.

Your question is similar to "How can I be happy". You can expect nothing more than guesses and more than likely all of them will be wrong.

Your best bet for a reasonable answer is to post a representative sample.

MJ
adowrx wrote on 4/28/2004, 9:02 PM
Normalize
Xnoise
L2