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It sounds almost like you are recording someone with an audience in one room and at the same time ( live ) playing it in another room …
If so, the best way to control sound would be how you place the microphones. One for speaker and some other one for 'ambient' sound of applauses. If you can control the levels of those mics then you can get a decent 'mix' of the two different sound sources … and route the sound to the other room.
If you are, instead, recording the sound and then playing at a later date in another room, the same applies re: placement of mics... but you can use AUDITION to fine tune the sound recording better than you can by using PPRO , which is a video and sound editing program ( usually augmented by audition and other programs to add value to the edit )
good luck !
This might be interesting for you ….
When people shoot live SITCOMS ( for broadcast on TV ) the audience comes into the stage and are seated before the show starts.
Someone is hired to entertain the 'guest audience' ( like a clown act, but usually it's a comedian ) while they are waiting for the show to start. There is a prompter screen that tells the audience when to laugh, when to clap, when to do stuff.. like 'cheer'. They are told beforehand to be quiet during the shooting of the show UNLESS prompted to do what the screen tells them to do.
There is NO ( ZERO ) spontaneous reactions from the audience. It sounds like it is spontaneous when you watch it on TV but it is NOT.
Another ( very important ) thing that is done before the show starts... the sound people ( sound dept, ) point microphones at the audience and they ask them to do the following... while they record sound.....
a) please, all the men in the audience clap your hands in applause for 30 seconds....
b) please, all the women in the audience clap your hands in applause for 30 seconds ….
c) please, all the men in the audience laugh for 30 seconds.....
d) please, all the women in the audience laugh for 30 seconds..
e) please, all the men and women in audience clap for 30 seconds...
f ) please, all the men and women in the audience laugh for 30 seconds....
Yes, it's true... it is wild track... and is used to edit into the show later on ….along with what they get from the SCREEN PROMPTS ...
Think about that. Then think about how you can implement any of those things for your own recordings....
That sounds sorta dry and scientific ( audience directions ) , but it's not. They are definitely into contributing and being part of the show. The live stuff is usually shot ( each scene ) in ONE TAKE. The actors have to be right on with their lines and acting, and they get a huge energy from the live audience. They LOVE playing in front of a live audience ! And the audience can TELL … it is a very fun and high energy kind of thing, unlike anything else ( live theatre etc. ), The sets are right there lined up side by side in front of audience, and the only breaks are costume changes, etc. and that is done fast, It's kinda fun for everyone.
you want to use audition. nobody knows but YOU what recording specs you have,,, are they mp3, wav, studio wav ? you probably know that you will get best adjustments with a nice wav file .
The EQ in audition, high pass and low pass and a bunch of other stuff you can experiment with will at least IMPROVE what you have, if not altogether fix it.
good luck !
you might even be able to use some section of JUST APPLAUSE as room tone, and see if that helps ( eliminate the room tone.. see how it effects the voice )
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