Cleaning up spot recordings.

[JEGG]

Unless you have a great deal of constant (unchanging) noise from the camera (or elsewhere), I would forget about noise reduction.

If you can't get things to your liking with simple EQ, then separate your stereo recording into MS. Try EQing each element individually.

It may not accomplish anything, but it's something worth trying and takes very little time to do. You can often find the nasty reflections in the side portion, and some reduction in the "mud range" of the mid, along with some HF boost in the Middle might clear things up.

[travisbrown]

Originally Posted by JEGG

If you can't get things to your liking with simple EQ, then separate your stereo recording into MS.

It's a mono recording. Well, two channels, but the same track in each. They null out perfectly.

I'll tinker more.

[JEGG]

Originally Posted by travisbrown

It's a mono recording. Well, two channels, but the same track in each. They null out perfectly.

Any coincident or non-coincident stereo recording will have a sum and difference. Maybe a mono setting or (large) design error on the camera?

If the two channels sum to a null, than you have a two mic mono recording with one microphone polarity reversed.

[travisbrown]

I'm not so sure it is a design error. It's a single little electret condenser built into the camera. I'm talking about a little handheld snapshot camera.

It's not a stereo recording; the camera creates a mono video file. When I extracted the audio, I created the file as stereo just to try some widening tricks.

[JEGG]

Sorry about that. My bad-I misunderstood.