Sessions and Microphones and Good Audio
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Sessions and Microphones and Good Audio
I’ve listen to several BQH sessions and in two of them there was only one microphone used. The best one was when the microphone was clipped on the client and the worst one was when the microphone was much closer to the practitioner. This kind of problem can be solved nicely with a splitter and two microphones.
If you have existing recordings where one voice is much higher in volume than the other, you can partly fix that with an audio editor program.http://www.snapfiles.com/downloadfind.php?st=audio+editor&action=s&offset=10&lc=4&searchsort=
Ocenaudio, Wavosaur, and WavePad Appear to be good ones and are free. The term is dynamics. Master that and you can somewhat resurrect or balance old recordings. -
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I agree about (at least) using a mic clipped on the client. I film with my phone and use an external lapel mic for that. For editing sound, I use Audacity which is free, open source and cross platform audio editing software. I’ve seen several practitioners mention it on this forum, including Alba.
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Yes, Audacity is free, but I and others find it difficult to use. That’s why I did not mention it.
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Thank you so much for this info, @George_Duisman
Sometimes my clients just get so quiet, so there always seems to be an issue with balance in the recording. I too have found Audacity to be rather “user unfriendly”- so these suggestions are incredibly helpful.
Blessings!
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@Kristen_Cosentino There also is the possibility of recording with two tracks, one for you and one for your client. This of course takes two microphones and stereo recording. After the session you can amplify the lower track and with good audio editing software you can also run “dynamics” on the audio so that even if your clients volume goes up and way down the dynamics can fairly well even that out.
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Thank you, George… this sounds like an option for the office setup, but may be a little cumbersome for travel. I’ll definitely look into it 🙂
best, Kristen
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Recording with two mics is an interesting way, so that my voice would be clear and loud and my client would wear a lapel microphone.I’ll try it thanks for the idea 🙂Ho and I use Audacity and once you get it it’s quite easy, there are only 3 to 4 thing to do to clean and clear the track.I found some explanation on Google.
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