i blew it with some wedding audio

[greymalkin]

hi guys and gals,

it's been a while since i've been here but I thought I'd lay it out for you and see what you think:

I have at various times over the years done wedding video's for family and friends..always with the understanding from them that I am not a professional, just a dude with a couple cameras, tripods, and love of spending countless tedious hours in front of audio/video editing software to make a somewhat reasonable product.

I bought a wireless mic to help with my recording efforts so I could a) have a stereo amplifying the wedding ceremony and 2) have a good clean audio feed off the mixer to sync up with the video. It has really been standard and should be standard to get good audio.

Well the wedding I just did I discovered at the last minute (when it was too late to do anything about it) that the adapter I thought I had wasn't the adapter I actually had, preventing me from patching into the mixer board. What I unfortunately had to do was rely on the camcorder mic's to pick up the amplified ceremony.

Noone needs to tell me what a terrible, stupid, awful idea this is...I really screwed up and had to shoot as is.

So I get home and have a listen and of course the air conditioners are going full blast the whole time and although I can clearly make out the words the constant hiss is very very distracting..I tried my usual methods of noise reduction (getting the profile from a silent area..etc.) and graphic EQ manipulation but nothing seems to help. The hiss seems to permeate all areas of the spectrum.

so I come to you as a last resort..hoping that perhaps there is some highly advance phase shift technique or something to cancel out some of this awful noise.

I'm not asking anyone to fix it for me..just to listen and tell me use tool x, y, and z. I don't really care how tedious it is..I'm just trying to make the best of what I have.

The link is to a .zip file with 2 audio clips. Audio1clip.wav is the audio from mycamera which was a little behind the speaker..you will notice it mainly gets the lower tones. Audio2 is the best candidate as it was on about the 3rd row. I'm including them both because I don't know if theres a way to use one to help fix the other..etc.

There was a third person recording who was on the very first row so maybe their audio is a little better but I'm not banking on it.

anyways here's the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/54845717/mkWaudio.zip.html

If I'm up a creek then I'm up a creek. I just know I've gotten some amazing advice here in the past (like how to "deaden" a "live" sounding vocal track..etc.) and thought I'd come to you again with this issue.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

[Bodyslide]

I will look at the files when I get home and see what I can do with a few tools I have....Will let you know what I find out...PM me for more info

[Soopafresh]

I think this sounds somewhat better. 1st 14 seconds are unprocessed, then looped with the N/R and EQ

audio2clip.mp3


used 2 Free VST plugins with these settings:

[greymalkin]

thanks soopa I'll give those a shot! I was checking my PM box and noticed you helped me last year at the same time with another wedding audio mishap (i'm so embarrassed!)

I will try these tools out it will probably be this weekend before I have time to do it.

[SLK001]

Ten minutes of work:

audio1clip.mp3

[greymalkin]

thanks for taking a stab at it SLK..I'll have to check it out when I get home,

I'd like to know what sorts of tools were used if possible..as I'm afraid I'm woefully ignorant of anything past noise reduction and eq manipulation. and it's time I learn these sorts of things if I'm ever going to get any better and also so I don't have to come cry to you guys when I screw up :P.

I'm also interested in some sort of portable audio recording device that will give me good quality for an application like this..it just needs to be able to interface with a mixer board, record an hour and some change, and will pretty much just be used for voice recording. I'd like it to have some sort of crude audio level meter on it and not be very expensive :P. and it has to be digital! I wouldn't try to sync up a digital video with a seperate analog audio source.

thanks again to everyone who has read this and given me some hope.