intermittant buzz

[bonnybilly]

Hey,

I'm trying to deal with intermittant buzz/hum on a lav mic track...the buzz seems to come whenever the woman with the mic speaks. It seems like some sort of eletrical interference...she is holding a camcorder and her daughter is on a computer.

Any ideas to reduce/eliminate?

[Big Andy]

Originally Posted by bonnybilly

Hey,

I'm trying to deal with intermittant buzz/hum on a lav mic track...the buzz seems to come whenever the woman with the mic speaks. It seems like some sort of eletrical interference...she is holding a camcorder and her daughter is on a computer.

Any ideas to reduce/eliminate?

Give us an example. Post an audio file with the buzz on and off.

[bonnybilly]

here ya go, thanks.

[georgia]

is it ONLY happening when she is speaking? if there is do you have any gate/limiter/compressor on the record chain at all? have you tested the mic in any other location? How old are the batteries in the mic/transmitter/receiver?

cheers
geo

[bonnybilly]

Hey thanks for the reply.

It only happens when she speaks....I have about 5 mins of this stuff in varying degrees of ill health

This is a low budget doc and the shooting finished a long time ago...i'm trying to 'fix' it.

cheers

[georgia]

as long as you have sufficient headroom between dialogue and buzz, most of the noise reduction plugins should solve it. Good luck

cheers
geo

[Jfriah]

Originally Posted by bonnybilly

...she is holding a camcorder and her daughter is on a computer.

Sadly... there's the problem.
Although I just had a realllllllly bad situation with an on-board camera mic picking up more camera noise than DIA and a few hits of X-Crackle and iZotope RX worked quite well. (and backfill with an appropriately cruddy room tone)


Listening just on my laptop speakers right now so can't properly judge (at first listen, said "I don't hear any problem...") but I think I'm hearing what sounds to be pretty typical camera noise for camcorders. Try X-Crackle if you have it. I've erased some interesting problems with that one.


Jeff

[Matti]

RX and a minute to adjust

Matti

[bonnybilly]

Hey,

That's pretty impressive Matti...please share!

I spent a good hour with RX last night and really struggled as there is no part of the track without dialogue but with the noise? I ended up with may more artifacts. What technique did you use to train the unit?

Thanks.

[Jfriah]

Don't feel bad. Took me a long time to get the hang of Rx and I've been able to pull off some amazing things (don't let the clients know...they'll expect it on everything!) like removing robin chirps from 'day for night' dialogue.

Matti's a whiz at it.

I'll try post an example of MY current fun later.

Jeff

[Matti]

Thanks for the kind words

[Matti]

Originally Posted by bonnybilly

Hey,

That's pretty impressive Matti...please share!

I spent a good hour with RX last night and really struggled as there is no part of the track without dialogue but with the noise? I ended up with may more artifacts. What technique did you use to train the unit?

Thanks.

Its a short sample you cave us, but just after her first words the noise stays on for
some time, sample there. You want listen loud to find the problem and then back
to normal volumes to keep your ears and if still working, perspective


P.S. I´m willing to do nr jobs over the net, EM me
Not marketing so far ;-)

[Jfriah]

Here you go
Two examples of MY latest fun
and a pass of iZo Rx




p.s. example 02---that whine sound familiar?

[Jfriah]

Hey guys, here's the new one.
Yes I know on a normal project this would just get the 'ADR' stamp, but Matti, take a crack at this one hahahahaha.

Sorry, couldn't attach.
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