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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/7/2005, 9:56 AM
sorry pal, but your in tough luck. what makes it work, is getting the mic close to the person, obviously :)

But after the fact it's quite tough, unless you work for the FBI or some other clandestine govt. organization ;)

Dave

Yoyodyne wrote on 6/7/2005, 10:04 AM
This could be a tough one - I'd experiment with a combination of eq and noise reduction. Also search the forums for some tips from the gurus.
earthrisers wrote on 6/7/2005, 6:57 PM
Alas, not even good Noise-Reduction products such as the old Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction package are likely to be able to deal with the situation you describe. They're really good for taking out background noise that is *very consistent* -- like the hum of an air conditioner, for example. But "crowd noise" is usually far from consistent (unless everybody was chanting OM, or something...).
If you tried to remove that with an NR package, you'd lose your interviewee-voices, too.
Bob Greaves wrote on 6/7/2005, 10:06 PM
The only people I have ever seen do that successfully are the creative people who produce CSI. And they cheated by actually starting with two separate recordings.
Harold Brown wrote on 6/11/2005, 11:30 AM
I use eq with pretty good results. I have tested Sony NR on some really bad stuff but I couldn't get the perfect results I needed. Background sound might be gone but what was left sounded bad. Maybe someone with some years of experience could do better.
vicmilt wrote on 6/11/2005, 7:42 PM
Before you give up totally... consider sub-titling your copy.

I doubt you'll ever get great sound under the circumstances you describe, but sub-titles will make the worst sound work.

v
GG wrote on 6/15/2005, 2:17 PM
memory maker,

I would use professioanl ADR if it was really important.

GG