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wheeler8807
wheeler8807
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March 15, 2017
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PODCAST EDITING

  • March 15, 2017
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Just curious is there an efficient method for editing my show? There are three of us and I don't have any acoustic treatments but I key frame all three vocal tracks, it seems to take far to long to push out the episode in time every week. Due to the fact that my room isnt super large all of the mics pick up the others talking in the room. I want to try and cut the amount of editing I have to do and being that the majority of the time all I add effect wise is dessers and a hard limiter. I need a more efficient method is there anyone who knows how to clean the tracks up and save time with out using noise reduction or any other effect that won't degrade the original file? everytime I use any noise reduction effects it sounds echoy or it messes up the way the file sounds.

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ryclark
ryclark
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March 15, 2017

The only way that you can automate some of this is to use sidechain ducking to reduce the other tracks when one is speaking. However this becomes very difficult once you have more than two speakers. The other thing to experiment with is 'noise gating' or expansion that, if set up carefully will automatically reduce the contribution of the non speaking mics. There are some presets in the Dynamics Processing effect. But you will have to make adjustments to suit the levels of your tracks. Noise Gating is rather like an on/off switch, so can be a bit abrupt. However expansion can be used to auto fade down when the dialogue levels are below a certain threshold.

    wheeler8807
    wheeler8807Author
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    March 15, 2017

    well it would be nice if I knew what I was doing. lol

    I just don't want it to take a week to edit the show so I've been try to resolve my issues. This may sound weird, but anyway I could talk on the phone/skype to understand a little more?

    wheeler8807
    wheeler8807Author
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    March 18, 2017

    The SM7B is a good mic for voice and is very good at rejecting off axis sound.  The one thing to watch is that it doesn't give your voice a noticeably different tone than the two still using cheap condensers.

    The only reason I mentioned a mixer was that, as a time saver it might help to have all three voices on the same track while you edit.  If you had the mixer, you would plug your three mics into the mixer, balance the levels, pan everything to one side or the other, then plug the line out from the mixer into the H6 and via USB to your computer.  Working this way will cut the editing time but it WILL also cut your flexibility. 


    I really appreciate all of the help, I am just trying to get as much absorbed as possible.

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