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so that we could catch loud yells and not clip.


I'm fascinated anyone thought to do that. Works for me.

Yeah, it's INVALUABLE if everyone is getting excited and into character. Games have a LOT of scenes where you shift from normal volume to outright banshee screeches, and if you have a good high SPL mic and your gain set properly it's not USUALLY a problem, but SOMEtimes your enthusiasm gets the better of you. XD

kozikowski wrote: I can well imagine correction for integration into the show would be serious, but worlds better than the splattering and clipping of a microphone and preamp overloading.

Actually, for voice-only, especially the really LOUD stuff that we use this for? It's not bad. We've got an EQ profile we already tweaked to perfection to accommodate the slight difference in the pickup pattern when you pad the mic that heavily, the compression tool also helps richen it up a bit, and the mic itself matches the others, so when you're just cutting out one line, and one that's screamed anyway, the worst you have to do, if it's a REALLY difficult one is splice the lead-in or tail of the line from the main track carefully so there's no noise artifact. (Otherwise the lead in/trail off is quiet and odd sounding.

You get good at it, and you're looking at maybe an 8-12 second operation. 20-40 in REALLY difficult circumstances. ; )

And it's also better than calling people back in, or having to blow out your own vocal cords over and over. = )

Yes. Nobody is expecting screamed dialog to sound like anything anyway, so you win.

It's not often somebody comes up with a trick I haven't heard of.

[Writing that down]

Koz

Thanks to the thread. Was able to get some work done after watching a Lynda.com training session and not finding "Noise Removal".