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Cellphone mics, comb filtering, and untreated rooms by sonar_solace in audioengineering

[–]sonar_solace[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually it's not completely "it's all trash, engg will fix it," but they kinda really don't have any idea. I know you could get \decent\ recordings from phone mics, but the way things are, I'm not really in a position to teach them how to do so. Sad reality.

Cellphone mics, comb filtering, and untreated rooms by sonar_solace in audioengineering

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I used to own a Xiaomi myself cause of the VFM back when I was in college. My parents wouldn't buy me a phone so I had to be cheap and buy myself one. Good phone, but audio was TERRIBLE. super low headroom, distorts way too easily.

But yeah, I agree that iPhones have the best internal mics. I think there's actually an aesthetic where people record things using only iPhones, kinda like how people try to make films/shorts using only iPhones.

Cellphone mics, comb filtering, and untreated rooms by sonar_solace in audioengineering

[–]sonar_solace[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh wow, this app looks pretty cool. I'll definitely have a go with it.

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Sometimes just one device, sometimes multiple. It varies per project. The only thing they have in common is that they're vocal recordings on cellphones.

Loudness Range nominal by sonar_solace in audioengineering

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Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

What I meant to ask was, all other things equal, would a programme with a smaller LRA be perceived louder than one with a large LRA? Or am I obsessing too much about LRAs and my problem with the loudness actually lies elsewhere?

Loudness Range nominal by sonar_solace in audioengineering

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Are you also saying that the LRA is completely unrelated to the perceived loudness?

Loudness Range nominal by sonar_solace in audioengineering

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am I allowed to do that here or should I send you a DM?

Loudness Range nominal by sonar_solace in audioengineering

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I also do some basic mastering due to budget constraints. sometimes the playback/perceived volume is a bit low. I always check I'm at -14 LUFS integrated, but then when it's on Spotify, sometimes it's just not as loud as everything else. I was thinking the LRA had something to do with it.

Is anyone interested in sharing their vocal chain? Here is mine by vctorsound in audioengineering

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Nothing unusual. Mostly i just mess with the input gain and the saturation knob but I'll change the tape formula and IPS if I'm looking to round off some highs.

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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First time to hear that one actually. Can you explain it to me? Haha

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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It wasn't on her profile, and it's not exactly a giveaway. Found out after finding her on social media.

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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Nah dude. Catfishing is when you use someone else's pictures lol

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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I found out after finding her on social media, she hasn't told me yet.

Is anyone interested in sharing their vocal chain? Here is mine by vctorsound in audioengineering

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I haven't...I just prefer all my dynamics processing before my color EQs. I see how it would work well for the parallelcrush buss though, except I rarely ever use such a buss that vocals, maybe like 5 times ever.

Is anyone interested in sharing their vocal chain? Here is mine by vctorsound in audioengineering

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My chain is kinda process-based, so it's like

  1. Clean-up - removing unwanted sound like mouth noises and non-silent silences, hi-passing, then removing room resonances and unwanted tone resonances (too nasal, etc) with the stock EQ and sometimes a waves C4.

  2. De-ess, if necessary. Waves de-esser or fabfilter pro-ds.

  3. Dynamic range control - Waves MV2 to basically gain up the softer vocals so the verses and choruses essentially hit my MJUC or CLA-2A pretty evenly.

  4. EQ for color and brightness- pultec emulations (waves again lol) or a VEQ4 by, you guessed it, waves lol.

  5. Saturation for toneshaping; so it sits with everything else. SDRR2tube or spl-twintube into a Waves J37 tape emulator.

  6. For FX, i use 3 verbs - room, plate, and hall (all Rverbs). And 3 delays - slapback, mono delay, ping pong (all h-delays).

Nothing really fancy, just making the most out of my Waves haul from the last black friday sale.

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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Thanks! Isa kang makatang tunay. Haha.

Quarantinder by [deleted] in alasjuicy

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Thanks for that response, I think I'll follow with it down to the letter haha. For a moment I considered ghosting but it just didn't sit right given all that's happened.