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kaitlyna68598765
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October 6, 2019
Question

Merge two speech recordings with Audition

  • October 6, 2019
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I used microphone A and did a speech recording at home, then I used microphone B to do another speech recording in the office.  Since they were from different hardware and probably the microphone to mouth distances were different, there was obvious difference between these two recordings in terms of the noice and the pitch.  

Is there a way to merge these two rocordings so they can average each other out and give the impression that they were from the same recording?

 

 

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    Mike Russell
    Mike Russell
    Inspiring
    October 7, 2019

    Using a tool like EQ Match in iZotope Ozone 9 may help you get a closer sound between microphone A and B. As Steve says this is a really tough issue to fix and the best situation is to record all in one go or just resume again with the same microphone in the same position.

     

    I have had so many times when I need to record pick up lines on the same microphone and they sound different to the recording from a few days earlier on the same mic!

     

    If you can get things matching well another tip is to make the edit midway through a word rather than between words or sentences. This will make the edit a little smoother and less noticable. Good luck!

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 7, 2019

    Yeah, but by the time you've gone through all the trouble to attempt (and inevitably fail) to fix this, you might just as well have re-recorded it anyway for the time it will take. Even if you can (sometimes) 'fix' things using technology, it's simply not worth it, and with V/Os, this is usually the case.

     

    I think it's better to encourage people to learn from their mistakes, and practice doing it correctly!

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 6, 2019

    Sorry - not a chance! We've been asked about this loads of times before, and the answer never changes. Even recordings made in the same room with the same equipment can sound different before and after lunch, sometimes. The human ear is incredibly sensitive to changes in the voice, and even the slightest difference is always noticeable. So, the rule with all recordings like this is always to do them at one sitting, if you want to avoid continuity difficulties.

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