Hi Guys,
I'm working on an indy film project and I was hoping I could get some feedback to see where I could nip and tuck what I am doing better.
The film is a spoof 50-60's sci-fi caper and most of the audio was recorded in the writer's bedroom & lounge. Not the best source material to work with I know BUT, I've noise gated and region trimmed/ faded the best I can to sort that out.
The reference bench mark sound that we're going for is this, Harry Enfield's 'Women know your limits'. Classic!
YouTube - Women: Know Your Limits! Harry Enfield - BBC comedy
I know it would have been recorded 'recently' hence why I like it for a reference too. The questions I have though are this:
1. The dynamics are really well controlled. Broadcast compression I guess but whenever I try and get similar control, all kinds of things jump out at me. I'm heavily dessing and EQing to get it to be bearable (both headphone referenced and in my room)... does anyone have any good signal chain recommendations for the dynamics side of things? Series compressors, limiters, EQ etc? I know not to get it all done with one setting and one plug in BUT... any tips from the pros would be much appreciated!
2. The aging of the sound is really well done and I'm struggling to get something to sound similar. I have approached the sound by breaking down the process of recording back in the day. Bandlimited mics, room sound capture as opposed to close mic'd ADR, hitting to tape and then giving it an even further band limited speaker simulation as if it were playing back on TV (Speakerphone rocks!) but the sound still sounds too clean. I have mixed white noise, crackles, vinyl noise in to the sound and even tried side chaining volume to the crackles to integrate the distortion to the output sound, but still can't get it like what they've done. Again, any suggestions for signal flow here would be a god send.
I will post some samples of where I'm at when I get back home but if anyone is on here and has some ideas, I will send you a virtual beer
Cheers,
John