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I received this too. "In collaboration with the Aviation Team"! "Our flight attendants feel that there is a build up of frequencies around 350Hz and they wonder if you can address this." "Our Co-pilots feel like the Sound Effects are a little to loud yet 'thin' sounding..." I have also received others similar. One I remember months back offered $35/hr. Then a few days later, same email, but $55/hr. Then, a couple of days after that, $60/hr. Remote work. I think they troll online sources like LinkedIN and gather professional identities and then try to lure them with offers of remote work. What the same or phishing is, I do not exactly know.... But I am seeing an increase of these emails.

Amazing! Thanks for the great forum.

Hi. Actually, cicadas and insects are easy prey (Har!) for these tools. By gnarly, I mean standing on a barge or ship, or near a genny, or near a loud industrial machine that is as loud as or louder than the voice. Or super windy. Or distorted. RX DeClip is good, but, I use RX less and less and less and less... These new tools are better. Other difficult situations are across the room or really reverberant room. DxRevive Pro, Hush and Acon Deverberate are really doing a greta job with these situations now. Of course, not everything can be salvaged.

Since this got revived, try dxRevive Pro (Har!). It is amazing! As is Acon Extract:Dialgue.

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Yes, it has advanced quite a but in the last handful of years! I never liked RX Dialogue Isolate. Acon Digital's Extract: Dialogue can do some amazing things that couldn't have been done 5-10 years ago with a common plugin. Used gently, it's amazing. Used maximally, it can be a life-saver. But not everything can be saved. I also have WAVES Clarity Pro. Slightly different. I don't like the end result as much, but for nasty stuff, it can clean things more than Acon. The result will be very usable if it is gnarly to begin with, but I reach for Acon first. A couple of months back, I picked up dxRevive Pro. Wow! That can salvage things in an amazing way. It doesn't make me give up on Acon, but it can clean and revive like no other. I was handed a poorly recorded podcast -- with a guest who didn't use headphones, left the speaker on, and had Zoom's dialogue isolate. Ugh. Acon couldn't do much, but dxRevive made it much better (but not "studio quality). I used it on another project that was not so troublesome and it sounded fantastic. I demo'd CEDAR's VoiceEx. REALLY great. Does things the others can't, faster, but, it is pricey. I also demo'd Hush. It got rid of Room + noise really well. I also think that Acon'd DeReverberate is the best in class. I use all of these as Audiosuite (or, rendered, if you will), can't use them real-time. All that said, I still use CEDAR DNS One. It still does a fantastic job quickly and sounds good. I do a more gentle pass with Acon or deRevive, then use DNS ONE.

If free is a criteria, then (re)learn to use stock plugins. I could get by with Avid (or any DAW's) stock plugins. It's all about the technique and using your ears to hear where it should go then getting it there (in the time they paid for). Not Free: Avid Pro is god, but not free - subscription. DMG: Equilibrium Compassion FabFilter: DS Limiter L2 Cedar DNS ONE (distinctly NOT free, but you ASKED for favorites......) Exponential Reverbs Acon Digital De-reverberator RX6 ADV -- using round-trip with the application

I found Acon to be a better deverberator. RX's is awful. I have found several uses for Unchirp and Unfilter in really bad sounding things. Or, interviews that were conducted over Skype or some dumb thing. And once, on the deck of a freighter out on the ocean. After dealing with the wind, I need a little something to get the voice to cut. I am glad to have them, but I don't use them that often. I find that I turn a dial slowly and it starts to sound better ... better... then BAM! super ringy and over processed.

I realize this is an ancient post, but I wanted to correct this for any future viewers of this. Do not simply pan and not adjust channels to Downmix to Stereo! This simple formula is: L pan Left, leave at unity R pan Right, leave at unity Center leave Center but drop 3dB Ls pan Left, drop 6dB Rs pan Right, drop 6dB LFE -- I never understood why people drop this especially if you properly use it as an EFFECT! Though, I know that the Dolby Stereo (LtRt) auto downmix does drop it. Why not mix it in? but drop it 6 or 9 12dB. To taste! if is only info below 120 for boom and rumble, why not have it in stereo? "For 5.1 would you just mute all tracks except the Center channel for each stem, and export, then repeat that for L,R,Ls,Rs, LFE?" I don't understand this question. After you print the mix, or consolidate stems then export clips as whole files. No export. No need to mute and do 1 at a time.

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Jim, I've read the DCI spec docs before. I know what Forensic Marking is. Which is, yes, a process added to each DCP. But, Audio Forensic Marking is inaudible. (look at page 120 in your document) That's different than what he says here about using a pattern of taxi horns.

Mule muffins! I have never heard of such a thing. My friends who work on big dollah films have all told me tales of overly meticulous sound supers spotting all kinds of things in addition to the editors themselves and the Director. The audio post sound budgets for these things are north of 400K! Creating different position and honk patterns for a MAJOR release would require an unwieldy amount of copies! Think of the spreadsheet and the amount of time to PRINT each mix. Batman V Superman was released in 4242 Theaters. Presumably there will be more. You mean to tell us, there will 6,000 (or more) DIFFERENT copies of the soundtrack? I find this all quite hard to believe.

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Staying with *my* theme. I think this is brilliant

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Just saw this post and my first thought was the above are your biggest concerns. FX recording often requires good dynamics for just these reasons. I would look at some Senn 441 or 421's or SM57's or Heil Mics ... something like those (whatever you have) and bring lots of foam and tape and zip-ties.... and find places inside and outside the car. And a couple sets of ORTF stereo (since this won't be surround) in key pass by spots.

Dolby Digital really refers to the process of getting the Mix to a 35MM print, which requires an approved room and Dolby Engineer, a Dolby Meter Bridge, a Dolby DMU that creates the MO disk (with a form of AC3) which then goes to the Lab where they marry the picture and MO disk. The Dolby Digital is then put in packets between the sprocket holes. It being an AC3 for DVD's came much later. To make an AC3 or a TrueHD encode of a mix requires no room approval or Dolby Engineer. ATMOS comes with requirements similar to the 35MM process but evolved and more involved that that. You are allowed to use the double-D logo on a DVD or BluRay if you use one of their encoders, you do not need to go through a pay-license process. You only pay (paid) for the 35MM license and logo use. ATMOS you also have to pay. The license for the 35MM included the above process with the engineer and gear. VERY few 35MM releases anymore, though.... 5.1 as wave files are just the surround mix files. There is no format (ok, well, there really is, but no trademarked format). You can put those 6 files into a DCP and not have to do anything or pay anyone else. Part of the confusion comes from Distributors and Exhibitors (especially Festivals) not really understanding what any of this means and giving mis-leading multiple choice questions on the submission forms. Like, "Format of your Film, check one : Dolby Digital. Stereo". When you have 6 mono files that make up the 5.1 mix, or an interleaved 5.1, the answer is neither.

This is true. The idea of using multiple SRC's in a device and letting it "choose" which one is "appropriate" for the signal level based on its calibration is not a new idea - Lavry did this years ago as well as manufacturers of Live Consoles. The concept is not new or patentable. But a unique way of doing it might be. Of course, a lot depends on how much money you have and how good your patent attorneys are. Putting it into a Production Sound context is a great idea! I imagine the real trick has been implementation in a device that small with those types of power supplies.

I usually hate Star Wars things, but this made me laugh. Apologies for the obnoxious music....

Putting more Blunder into the Blunderbuss

This. It's only $79 and they used the same SRC licensed from iZotope.