SPL Transient Designer

[Nobody]

Hello Folks,

I have not been in this group for some time so I hope you folks (not
including the spammers and trolls) are doing well.

I now have a UAD Solo2 Laptop. I am going to try the SPL Transient
Designer in trial mode so I am wondering if any of you folks have used
it for removing room sound. Supposedly if you decrease the Sustain then
it will decrease the room sound.

I have shot some video and lost the feed from the mics forcing me to use
audio from a camera that was at the rear of a church. Small church but
still too much room sound.

Thanks,
Robert A. Ober

[Scott Dorsey]

Nobody > wrote:
>I now have a UAD Solo2 Laptop. I am going to try the SPL Transient
>Designer in trial mode so I am wondering if any of you folks have used
>it for removing room sound. Supposedly if you decrease the Sustain then
>it will decrease the room sound.

Well, sort of. It is kind of like using downward expansion to de-emphasize
reverb tails. It's not a miracle but it can help clean things up a little
bit on dialogue, etc.

>I have shot some video and lost the feed from the mics forcing me to use
>audio from a camera that was at the rear of a church. Small church but
>still too much room sound.

I think that would take a miracle.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Thomas Thiele[_2_]]

Scott Dorsey schrieb:

>> I have shot some video and lost the feed from the mics forcing me to use
>> audio from a camera that was at the rear of a church. Small church but
>> still too much room sound.

> I think that would take a miracle.

But since melodyne can extract and manipulate single notes of an accord,
I think even this is only a question of time (and market).

[John Williamson]

Thomas Thiele wrote:
> Scott Dorsey schrieb:
>
>>> I have shot some video and lost the feed from the mics forcing me to
>>> use audio from a camera that was at the rear of a church. Small
>>> church but still too much room sound.
>
>> I think that would take a miracle.
>
> But since melodyne can extract and manipulate single notes of an accord,
> I think even this is only a question of time (and market).

I'd say that in theory, if you can get the impulse responses of the room
between all the sources and the microphone, the sound coming via the
reflected paths can be subtracted from what you've got. Given enough
processing power and an accurate enough set of impulses.....

(Inserts tongue in cheek) Still, it *is* a church, and they claim that
miracles happen. Maybe have a word with The Boss?

Extracting a single note from a chord is trivial by comparison.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

[Nobody]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > wrote:
>> I now have a UAD Solo2 Laptop. I am going to try the SPL Transient
>> Designer in trial mode so I am wondering if any of you folks have used
>> it for removing room sound. Supposedly if you decrease the Sustain then
>> it will decrease the room sound.
>
> Well, sort of. It is kind of like using downward expansion to de-emphasize
> reverb tails. It's not a miracle but it can help clean things up a little
> bit on dialogue, etc.
>
>> I have shot some video and lost the feed from the mics forcing me to use
>> audio from a camera that was at the rear of a church. Small church but
>> still too much room sound.
>
> I think that would take a miracle.
> --scott


Thanks to all who answered.

I just tried it in DP7.2 . It does work, that is it makes a noticeable
improvement when I decreased the sustain. I used DP7.2 because I find
PreAmp1 useful for warming and this audio needs that. The PA was
overdriven during the chorus singing at the start of the service so I am
working on reducing distortion as well. Still more work to do but with
the Transient Designer, PreAmp1, and UAD's Pultec Pro, I am making some
progress.

Hope you folks have a good weekend,
Robert
PS: By the way, the sermon is where I did most of the switching it on
and off bit with some attention to matching the levels.