The VHS tape recording consists of electric piano, drum, electric
guitar, and vocalist.

The vocalist is drowned out by other instruments.

I can hear the vocalist but the signal is weak, because he did not sing
close enough to the microphone.


Is there a way to strengthen the vocal?

"Rav" wrote in message
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The VHS tape recording consists of electric piano, drum,
electric guitar, and vocalist.

The vocalist is drowned out by other instruments.

I can hear the vocalist but the signal is weak, because
he did not sing close enough to the microphone.

Is there a way to strengthen the vocal?

Yeah, turn up the equalization in the frequency range of the vocal, or turn
down the equalization in the range of the other instruments, or a little of
each.

If perchance the vocalist was equally mixed into both channels, then do a
little channel matrixing and boost L+R and cancel signals that appear only
in either channel.

Rav wrote:
The VHS tape recording consists of electric piano, drum, electric
guitar, and vocalist.

The vocalist is drowned out by other instruments.

I can hear the vocalist but the signal is weak, because he did not sing
close enough to the microphone.

Is there a way to strengthen the vocal?

No, not really. A little fast compression can help things sometimes,
by pulling down the levels of things with rapid peaks (which are mostly
instruments). But I suspect from your description that this is mostly
a hopeless case.

Did you use an on-camera microphone? That's always a recipe for bad sound.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 25 Apr 2006 00:41:38 -0700, "Rav" wrote:

The VHS tape recording consists of electric piano, drum, electric
guitar, and vocalist.

The vocalist is drowned out by other instruments.

I can hear the vocalist but the signal is weak, because he did not sing
close enough to the microphone.


Is there a way to strengthen the vocal?

If you can find somebody with a copy of Adobe Audition, it has a
pretty good processor that will isolate or strengthen a vocal.

I don't know how you can put just the audio back on the tape though -
may be better to transfer it to DVD.

d

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