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bernhardthilo
Inspiring
April 8, 2018
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matching live-recorded music (with poor quality) with better quality music

  • April 8, 2018
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Hey there,

I'm working on a recording where the speaker has a fairly good microphone and on certain key-parts of his speech uses music (from background speakers) for his message.
The problem ist, that the music is very muffled, and loses most of it's quality.

I do have the .wav files of the music he uses. And no I'm trying to exactly match those (in the multitrack view) to the recorded music.
I can get them to start roughly at the same time... But of course I can't match them exactly. Which is annoying, cause you can hear the music being out of tune, especially with drums etc.

Is there a feature to exactly match to identical music clips to one another?


I hope I explained that well enough, so that you guys can get what I mean

Thanks already,

Bernhard

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Correct answer ryclark

No, it is virtually impossible to match audio from different recorded versions of the same music as you have found. Is the speaker actually speaking over the music or does he stop when he plays it? The only way you can manage this is to fade out the live recording on one track of the Multitrack and fade in the clean copy of the music instead. This will only work, of course, as long as he isn't speaking on top of the music.

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ryclark
ryclarkCorrect answer
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April 8, 2018

No, it is virtually impossible to match audio from different recorded versions of the same music as you have found. Is the speaker actually speaking over the music or does he stop when he plays it? The only way you can manage this is to fade out the live recording on one track of the Multitrack and fade in the clean copy of the music instead. This will only work, of course, as long as he isn't speaking on top of the music.

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bernhardthiloAuthor
Inspiring
April 8, 2018

Hey Ryclark,

Thanks for answering,
It actually is exactly the same music (not different recorded versions) but the same recording we played in live (while he's speaking over it) and the exact same recording I want to lay over it again.

Which should be possible, since the recording is exactly the same one (just the one is a bit quiet und muffled), but it's difficult for me to match the song (eg. where they start) only with my hearing down to those 40 something thousand soundpoints. So that's the thing I'm looking for.

Bob Howes
Bob Howes
Inspiring
April 8, 2018

The trouble is, they're NOT identical.  The version that you hear through the speaker's mic is missing lots of the information that existed in the original live track.  It probably also suffers from room noise and echo.  Your other problem will be that any processing you apply will affect the speaker as well as the music.

There's nothing you can really do this time but, if you hit a situation like this again, your best bet is to use a mix of a directional mic and speaker positions that reduce the amount of sound getting to the mic the speaker is using.

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