How to match lav mic audio and 2nd on-camera audio "quality"

prairiedogpics wrote on 5/19/2004, 12:25 PM

Be gentle, I'm an audio newbie.
I have Vegas 5 and recently did my first two camera shoot. The main stationary camera (A) recorded audio via a wireless lav transmitter to a reciever plugged directly into the camera. That audio is great. The "roving camera" (B) was a digicam recording it's audio just from the on-camera mic (for synching purposes).
Unfortunately, at one point, I taped over the camera A's footage, and therefore I have to use camera B's audio in the project for this very short section. The audio quality between camera A and camera B is very different, obviously.

What Audio tools contained in Vegas 5 would you typically use to try to bring the audio quality/feel of camera B as close as possible to camera A (aside from raising the gain). I'm not sure how to "sweeten" it so viewers might not be able to sense the difference (for a brief period of time). Where to begin. Basic audio steps?

Thanks,
Dan

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Rednroll wrote on 5/19/2004, 12:55 PM

EQ and crossfades.

You will use the Track EQ on the Mic A's audio to adjust it, so that it will tonally match closer to Mic B. Being an audio newbie this might be a little difficult, if you are not familiar with frequency boosts and cuts to be able to tonally tell the difference between the 2 audio recordings.

If you can't get them identical sounding through EQ adjustments, this may be alright. You just need to get them in the same ballpark. What you need to do is time allign both recordings so they playback exactly in time with each other. Then you can do a gradual crossfade of the 2 different recordings up until you reach the section where Mic B's part is missing, and the tonal change will not be as noticeable. Then gradually crossfade back into Mic B's audio, to again make the change less noticeable.