On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:15:13 +0100, Chris Croughton
wrote:

(There is also the delay with the 'live' mics picking up the sound with
a 1ms per foot delay. When mixing 'live' with 'board' I usually aim to
leave around 5-10ms delay between then, that seems to "sound right",
trying to sync them exactly results in some of the 'live' sound being
ahead of the board sound which sounds slightly wrong. Yes, I know the
human ear isn't supposed to be able to hear delays that short, but it
does have good phase discrimination...)

Interesting...

The other thing is that with two minidiscs you have to do resync anyway,
because they won't have been started on time. And of course you then
have to mix and then resync with the video...

OK well that's fine I can spare 10 minutes to dub and time-shift the
audio. Actually I had to do this once with a friends wedding reception
I taped - the sound was the other way round - speeches (from the back
of the room) too faint to be really much use, interspersed with loud
clapping.

So I had to strip the audio track (VDub), rework the levels and EQ,
and balance it in Soundforge and then reapply it and lip-sync the
start. It was marginally better than before so worth the effort.

The problem with ~overloaded~ mic is that there's nothing you can do
to rework the distortion out of the audio track :-(

Cheers anyway - Neil