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Let's say you've got audio that's recorded via - dynamic mic
speakers ambient sound into a webcam mic rather than some direct-in
type of setup. It's basically clean as far as no greatly obnoxious
artifacting, camera noise, outside traffic, but it is what it is - a
lot of muddy room ambience, limited frequency range etc. I'm sure you
get the idea.

The ultimate goal is a just for fun project to mix the vocal with a
karaoke track. It's already in the right key.

Other than playing with EQ to take out some of the room mud and boost
some of the freq's a little, any suggestions for sow's ear/silk purse
tweaking of audio like this?

Thanks for all input
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Doc wrote:
Let's say you've got audio that's recorded via - dynamic mic
speakers ambient sound into a webcam mic rather than some direct-in
type of setup. It's basically clean as far as no greatly obnoxious
artifacting, camera noise, outside traffic, but it is what it is - a
lot of muddy room ambience, limited frequency range etc. I'm sure you
get the idea.


Cut off the top end. Cut off the bottom end. Arrange the tracks that
you are adding to fit into the missing frequency ranges of the vocal
track.

Other than playing with EQ to take out some of the room mud and boost
some of the freq's a little, any suggestions for sow's ear/silk purse
tweaking of audio like this?


If it sounds boxy, add more reverb with a pre-delay. You'll get a sound
that is still way too reverberant, but it won't sound boxy if you are
careful to pick it up so the reverb starts at about the time the close
reflections on the original stop. It'll sound better in the mix than it
does solo.
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Default Tricks for enhancing a vocal from room ambient YouTube audioto whatever extent it can be done

Doc wrote:
Let's say you've got audio that's recorded via - dynamic mic
speakers ambient sound into a webcam mic rather than some direct-in
type of setup. It's basically clean as far as no greatly obnoxious
artifacting, camera noise, outside traffic, but it is what it is - a
lot of muddy room ambience, limited frequency range etc. I'm sure you
get the idea.

The ultimate goal is a just for fun project to mix the vocal with a
karaoke track. It's already in the right key.

Other than playing with EQ to take out some of the room mud and boost
some of the freq's a little, any suggestions for sow's ear/silk purse
tweaking of audio like this?

Thanks for all input



Nope. You can't unscramble an egg. You might be able to do something
with single-ended noise reduction, but probably not ( and very
much not without flangey artifacts ).

Single-ended NR is like what Adobe Audition offers - you snatch
a segment of room tone, then it "subtracts" that from
the signal.

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