This may sound silly, but, for example, looking into recording forms of
podcast material relating to a form of cooking instructor describing
activities while they're busy with them, but, playing around with a
couple of test runs in environment, etc., for example, even what sounds
like a normal bit of a klunk sound when placing something like a pot on
the stove seems to almost drown out other sounds, like the person
talking, etc.
Now have tested/tried this out with both the built-in microphone on an
android phone, as well as with both a directional/vocal-input, and a
omni-directional microphone, then working with them plugged in to my
laptop that I normally use for recording with audacity, but, that sharp,
metallic sound still seems to come across a lot louder than it should in
relation to other sounds.
So, suggestions on how to try stop this from happening - as in,
something along the lines of normalising levels, but, somewhat focusing
on these types of sounds?
Suppose could try something like noise reduction, using a specific piece
of the sound as the initial sample, but, think that might just affect
too many of the other sounds in the recording, and, in any case, I don't
really want to lose the sound, but, just stop it from overriding other
sounds quite so much, if that makes sense.
Anyway, suggestions, ideas, and/or things to try out?
Did, for example, already try placing the phone itself inside a
cardboard box, and, both the microphones I tried out do have foam covers
over their microphone heads, but, didn't really seem to make too much of
a difference either way - the omni-directional microphone will hopefully
also give us more of the surround sound atmosphere, without necessarily
needing to make use of multiple recordings of the same session, using
multiple input devices, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..."
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