OT - too much bass

[David Cole]

On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 05:22 AM, Macintosh Digital Video List 
wrote:

>  Perhaps ask
> your friend to allow you to sit in with the band at a practice and
> capture fresh audio to then sync with he footage shot at the club?
> That may provide the best and most polished solution and should be
> within the capabilities of FCP 3.
>



Good luck trying to sync the two up...
If it's a one camera shoot and you can't cut away to another camera, 
the picture and audio will most likely move out of sync and drive you 
nuts trying to correct. My 2 cents.

And it's true: once an audio track has been distorted, there's no magic 
filter or program to "un-distort" it. If you simply have too much bass 
you can use any of the Final Cuts to filter the audio and reduce the 
bass frequencies. Next time, consider getting a feed from the sound 
system in the room and monitor the feed with headphones. Get a sound 
check, play some audio back, and make sure it's not distorting the 
input of your camera. The onboard mikes on camcorders can easily get 
overloaded if presented with too much sound. Or you may not notice that 
you are standing too close to one instrument (or P.A. speaker) and 
getting an unbalanced mix of the music.