On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:03:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:52:30 +0200 (CEST), Ffanci Silvain wrote: >>Or is that mic nearly not as important as the effects of the room on >>any live recording? > >EQ settings depend on the used microphone and its position, the "room >noise" and the kind of speech, music, instrument that was recorded. I >doubt that there are default EQ settings, that can be used as a >starting point. I noticed that my iPad's outputs have idiotic boosted >bass, so IMO it's good not to add any EQ when using an iDevice with >it's build in sound thingy, instead the EQing should be done after >importing the WAV files to the Linux DAW. Assumed the recording >already was manipulated by an iPhone EQ, you're most likely stranded, >since you can't get back good sound, if the source should be >completely biased, let alone that frequencies might be completely cut >away. In my experiences enhancing the sound quality of recordings done >with cheap equipment is hard to do, while parts of the recording might >become good, other parts usually clang or are very muddy. Don't suffer >from self-doubts, if you can't get, what you try to archive. It doesn't >mean that you're an untalented engineer, it only means that you aren't >a wizard ;). As a starting point you could try to use a low-path and >high-path filter, perhaps it's possible to cut the lowest and highest >frequencies, but usually the rest of cheap recordings is that bad, that >you want to add some disgusting very high and low frequencies, so >cutting low and high trash doesn't work. > >Sorry that I can't help, I only can confirm that it's more or less >impossible to enhance really bad recordings done with bad audio >equipment. PS: A limiter and compressor are most likely good tools for such audio sources. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
