No problem, mgoorevich, thanks for taking the time again to explain
I am totaly excited to be getting this (among other) book this week! I hear what you're saying about it being a valuable tool. I already own many boks that I use either for reference or a reminder.
For time and pitch I use Serato's PNT Pro, which IMO is a god send! I've done a lot of ADR and am used to lip reading (my ears work fine btw :D ) working out timings etc... Thanks for the information though it's always nice to hear things that remind us.
Altiverb is great - I used it years ago in it's infancy. Since then I've pretty much been using TL Space (perhaps that'll change again one day budget allowing).
After working through all my passes I made today I reverted back to some of the original distorted parts as the character had goen slightly, just sounded thin.
The client should be happy considering the pre-student recording techniques they adopted. (not that I'm blaming them of course for me not making it 100%)
Cheers!
Lee.
LEE G Quote:
Originally Posted by mgoorevich  Okay sorry Lee. I just would like to explain my self better. I just re-read what I wrote and I think you got me wrong a bit.
I recommended this book because I do guggest this book as a GOOD source for super experience professional as well as for beginer. And this is my honest opinion.
Regarding "work hard, it's gonna hurt" - my point was "I feel your pain".
I want to recommend one more thing, though you should be very careful with it. You can shorten words by cutting some letters. If there is a strong click on "S" in the middle, try to make it shorter by deleting a problematic noise. E.G if an charachter say "Yesss" and on the 2-nd s there is a harsh click, cut it out, so it will sound like "Yess". Or goood as good e.t.c.
Now, it might be very tricky and you are about to walk on the edge.
From one side you improving your audio and thats good. But you must be careful NOT to: 1 - go out of synch. 2 - lose natural pronunciation 3 - make it less artistic and dramatic.
As it was mentioned before, you may use also time stratch and pitch shifts (maybe Vocalign sometimes). You may use reverb for deleting spikes in the end of the words and re-create new tails with it (Altiverb is good).
iZotope RX spectral repair may recreate missed spaces , then try gentle reverb for more natural results.
But again, it's a small steps way and you should re-check youself all the time.
Also sometimes it's preferable to leave it distorted rather over processed.
This is my opinion again.
Good luck! And sorry for my English.  |