audio gone bad, real bad!

[camcrew]

new member needs help with audio taped at a wedding. only audio available to use is from lapel mike on groom. second camera had on-camera mike unlugged. worst case scenario. sound is ok when priest is near couple, but when he walks away, sound becomes unintelligible. i have tried audacity and magix to no avail. if anyone has any ideas i would greatly appreciate it. i can e-mail sample audio clip.

[Chuck Engels]

Sorry you haven't gotten an answer to your post yet.

As a suggestion, maybe if you were to post a audio clip in the gallery someone would hear it and might have an idea for you. Audio is always the most difficult thing to correct after recording, even with the most advanced and expensive tools.

It's always best to have backup cameras rolling and backup microphones recording.

[camcrew]

thank you for your reply. i asked the priest to repeat most of what he said that day which he willingly did and i did a surprisingly good job of putting that in with wonderful premiere elements. i worked on some sections with audacity and got some fairly good results. i have about 5 minutes of bad audio left that mostly has a high pitched whistle, like microphone feedback and cannot get it out yet, tried low pass, which worked in a couple of places, but not this one area. noise reduction is not doing it, but i haven't given up yet. hopefully, i can post a sample tomorrow.

[Chuck Engels]

I am so happy you got to do it over with the Priest and saved the majority of your video

Here is Ken's article on using Audacity to get rid of a alarm sound in his video http://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/sou ... _11-05.htm

Maybe this will work for your whistle

If Audacity doesn't do the trick then posting a sample would be a good idea.

[camcrew]

thank you, it is really nice to "know" people as yourself who are so willing to help !

[Ken Jarstad]

I tried working on a short piece of this audio. A tough one! The high pitched whistle noise could be notched-out, but getting the notch frequency correct, for starters, is a guessing game. I think you would need a calibrated spectrum analyzer or at least some type of real-time frequency display so you could watch the notch filter as you tune it. I don't know of any low/no-cost tools for doing this. Even Magix Audio Cleaning Lab failed me.