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baiaz
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January 28, 2014
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Voice sound hollow - like talking into a tube or something. How to fix it

  • January 28, 2014
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Hi

I have a Rode stereo mic that was attached to my camera while doing an interview. The Voice sound like talking into a tube or like Hollow.

Is it a way to fix it or to make it better?

And is there a tutorial or something that can help me out?

I use Audition CC - but am not a user of it.. so I dont know that much.. but I have it install... to put it that way

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    Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

    Here it is - straight for the memory card

    [audio mp3="http://mortenalmeland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Noediting.mp3"][/audio]


    Two things: yes, you have been a bit enthusiastic with the NR, but the main reason that it now sounds a little strange is that it's a very coloured recording - you can hear the room intruding into it because the mic is too far from the speaker. When you do NR under these circumstances, it invariably sounds a bit weird, because a part of that room sound is inevitably cut off, unless you are extremely careful with what you are doing. So you can hear part of the room but not all of it, and that invariably sounds a bit weird.

    Getting most of the noise out of a recording like that is a fine judgement call... and invariably you are better off leaving just a little bit of it, because that will almost certainly sound better than removing all of it.

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    Office3x
    Participant
    October 23, 2018

    This happened to me, my Audio Hardware / Default input was set to Built in-microphone. Change to in my case USB Audio codec.

    The hollow sound is your built in mic... change hardware preferences to correct mic.

      SteveG_AudioMasters_
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      SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
      Community Expert
      January 29, 2014

      Rode stereo mics usually sound a lot better than that - which makes me wonder how it got recorded. Any chance of posting a short sample? Generally it's quite hard to fix sound like that, but it's always worth working out what caused it!

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      baiazAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 29, 2014

      [audio mp3="http://mortenalmeland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Intervjue_1-Audio-Extracted_01.mp3"][/audio]

      Hmmmm let me see if this works

      I have removed some hissing noice from it first - just to be clear on that...

      SteveG_AudioMasters_
      Community Expert
      SteveG_AudioMasters_Community ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      January 30, 2014

      Here it is - straight for the memory card

      [audio mp3="http://mortenalmeland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Noediting.mp3"][/audio]


      Two things: yes, you have been a bit enthusiastic with the NR, but the main reason that it now sounds a little strange is that it's a very coloured recording - you can hear the room intruding into it because the mic is too far from the speaker. When you do NR under these circumstances, it invariably sounds a bit weird, because a part of that room sound is inevitably cut off, unless you are extremely careful with what you are doing. So you can hear part of the room but not all of it, and that invariably sounds a bit weird.

      Getting most of the noise out of a recording like that is a fine judgement call... and invariably you are better off leaving just a little bit of it, because that will almost certainly sound better than removing all of it.

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