Everyone’s sound quality is vastly different so each track requires it own approach to mastering
News shows are running into this constantly now. It used to be when they “cut to the guy at the building fire,” you were expecting fire-engine sounds and chaos. Now, it’s recording in the kitchen echoes and refrigerator sounds from everybody in the news team.
This is far and away more than I was hoping for.
Any opportunity to be obsessive.
Audacity, unless prevented by the MUTE and SOLO buttons will play everything top to bottom and give you a good idea what the finished show is going to sound like. Select one performer > SOLO > and apply any corrections needed. UnSOLO and they will return to the mix.
syncing the audio up hasn’t proven to be much of an issue.
You win. Nobody ever thinks about that.
silencing sniffles
That’s obsessive. It’s supposed to sound natural like people meeting in a room. Unless it’s a theater presentation. Is it?
There is a correction to my posts. You can’t simply save a Lossless Project. Save a regular one. It seems I uncovered an unintended feature [cough-bug].
So far I’m around 15 hours in…
That’s the leading sentence to the forum help post that continues: …and my computer/Audacity crashed. The show is silent now. Is there any way to retrieve my work? It’s really important!
You will note I stressed twice in the posts that you be able to recover from catastrophic failure with, at most, annoying inconvenience.
Let us know how it goes.
I published notes for a kitchen table sound studio.
Koz