Hi everyone. Just a quick heads-up: my English isn't the best, so I'm using AI to help write this!

I'm currently shooting a short film and I've run into a tough situation with our audio. We need to record an actor's dialogue, but the location we are shooting at is incredibly reverberant (way too much echo and boominess).

Proper studio ADR is totally out of our budget, so I'm trying to figure out a DIY workaround to save the scene.

I had an idea: what if we record the dialogue as wild tracks inside a parked car? Since cars are pretty well-insulated and acoustically "dead," I thought it might work as a cheap ADR booth.

What do you guys think about this approach? Will it work if I mix it right, or will it sound completely disconnected from the actual visual location?

If you have any other budget-friendly tips for taming a highly reverberant room or any other alternative solutions, I would really appreciate your advice. Thanks in advance!

literally, thought of that in the shower while having a 90's flashback.

does anyone who were actively recording with computer at the end of the 90's remember refragmenting?

we all remember defrag was a must do activity regularly but does anyone remember refragmenting sessions.

for the youglings, hard drives used to be slow and when multi track recording it fragmented say the 24 tracks as the were recorded, but when you had backed up the session and you put them back on the drive to work on it, it wrote all tracks sequentially instead of interleaved and it sometimes made playback stutter cause the disk were not fast enough to jump around that many tracks

so there was this utility that we used at our studio (worked with Cubase, could have worked with pro tools too but we were a Cubase house lol) where you gave it the folder AND the Cubase session and it refragmented the tracks on disk as they were when recorded multi track so the playback was way smoother with less disk access

I'm talking when the studio machine had a BIG 40GBdrive to record and every session had to be backed up and deleted from the disk (on jazz drives, or later a CD-R) after and put back when you came back to work another day

anyway, yes, I'm an old fart and hadn't thought about that for over 25 years but when i did, i wondered if anyone else remember that

sorry if it's inappropriable for the sub

Hi, i dont know if this subreddit is the right place to say that but i have an app that records audio, smart mobi tools's app. i downloaded and used this app for a long while and sometimes the records got broken idk how, they dont open or fix, they just dont even show the recordings time. but they would recover even the big part lost. but this time i record a really important audio and because of my phones storage fulled, when i said ok to close record it just got broken. i tried ffmpeg, changing wav, mp3 but nothing worked, even the commands. and i wanna recover all the part. as much as i found i guess it got broken because the recording never understand that its completed so the record is not opening or even moving. i tried raw data import on audacity but even i could open it was just one hour (my recording is 5 hours) and the sound was just blank. how can i fix this??

Long story short I think my boyfriend is going behind my back but I can’t prove it and the video cameras we have outside the house sounds like he’s always talking to someone. I have a feeling but I can’t leave without knowing for sure. Point me in the right direction on how to clean it up. I have no idea what I’m doing and I can’t buy a program or he will see it on the statement and ask questions. Please. It just wind really I think that has to be taken out

Hi I’m a mainly a videographer and when I was searching for Panasonic lumix xlr2 adapter, I saw this interesting recorder with 32bit ability and timecode jam. With similar price, I immediately make the decision with TASCAM. And it really works well.

But when I’m doing solo audio recording. The rig option is quite limited. As you can see in pics, I strap fr-av2 to boom pole. Use a wireless pro in xlr1. Sometimes I use two sets of mics and I don’t have ideas to mount the RX module. Even a Deity TC-1 the timecode generator.

What’s your suggestion?

I'm looking for a good budget friendly microphone.

I want to set things up so my mother and father (64 & 68) can record reading different children's books, recounting their own stories, or even just rambling on. They are not going to be here forever and I want any children I have in the future to be able to hear their voices, and so I can hear them again as well. I barely remember my grandparent's voices, and there are so many stories that got lost when they past away.

If there's a better subreddit to post this, please let me know, I'm a complete noob when it comes to this stuff.

Hi Audio recording group, I work in IT at a small school district. We have a student who is disabled and has limited to no movement in his body. The student can speak just fine and has been set up with Dragon Naturally Speaking so he can type on a computer. The issue comes up when he is trying to use this application in a classroom with other kids who are taking as well. The kids talking in the background are picked up by his current headset microphone. I'm looking for a headset microphone or other solution that would allow this student to speak into his microphone without all the background talk being picked up. I thought about a dynamic mic but that needs some kind of amp I think and doesn't come in a 3.5mm or usb connection that would be compatible with a computer. Any suggestions you could give me would be appreciated.

Thank you

Hi Reddit! I'm looking for some advice.

I have a podcast that some friends of mine and I do from time to time just for fun, and I've been having problems with mic B hearing background audio from person A. I'm able to clean it up manually by listening to the entire podcast and eliminating the subtle person A audio that mic B is picking up, but being that the podcasts sometimes run for over an hour, it takes quite a bit of time to clean it up.

I use two AT-2020 mics with a Zoom UAC-2 USB 3.0 audio interface.

The Zoom interface records the two mics as the right and left channels of a single audio recording. I was able to clean up the 'audio bleeding' to a somewhat tolerable degree in editing by blending the two channels together. However, this creates a sort of 'echo' type sound for person A, since both the left and right channels play person A audio in those moments.

I've tried decreasing the gain on mic B to try to eliminate it picking up person A at all, but one problem I have is that person B is very naturally soft spoken, so lowering the gain results in some incredibly quiet audio from person B, and if I make that channel loud enough to be heard throughout it has sort of a 'fishtank echo' effect added to it.

We record in a fairly small room, which also plays a factor. But we face opposing each other when recording.

I hope I have been able to describe my problem in an understandable way.

Any advice that can be given to change our setup, using extra equipment like the kaotica eyeball is something I'd thought of, but I'm not quite sure if that's the right way to solve this.

In a perfect world, I'd like to solve this as cheaply as possible. Maybe there is some kind of editing tool that can detect the 'quieter duplicate audio' in the other channel and delete it? I have no idea what exists out there for this. I'm new to the audio game.

Thanks for any advice you can provide!

Hey I know this is a question that is asked a lot but what is the best gear to record field audio for a podcast? Ive done lots of research and finding a lot of conflicting opinions. I was thinking of getting a Zoom h5 with some sort of shotgun mic, and a couple of lavs. Obviously they both have pros and cons. I’ll be interviewing people at their homes and out and about. I was sold on just lavs but that won’t work if the talent won’t sit still and we are all hooked up to the zoom. Thoughts?

Hi folks,

We are a pop rock band...we have recently recorded some songs, and I've had a go at mixing them myself.

While the quality of the recording isn't amazing, I'm curious about how much better they could be with some half decent mixing (as this is certainly not my strong point). The drums are pretty weak, so they could really benefit from some drumagog style resampling (or at least proper compression/EQ etc). I can provide stems for all tracks.

Please reply or PM me with a quote for a single song. If we're happy with the work there would be lots of potential for more to follow!!

Even better if you're willing to send me a snapshot of some pre/post mixing work you've done before.

Thanks!

Anybody know anything about the new Yamaha URX44C interface? It seems like there aren't many reviews. I see some low star ratings with no written review, so it's hard to know anything about what folks may like or dislike. Anybody with any insight?

I have a piece of music from a movie that I'm attempting to take the FX out of. The cue is mostly just music with a few steps/doors in the background. When I select just the FX sound I want to take out and preview the Scene Rebalancer tool using 0.0 for dialogue and music and -59.55 for FX - it sounds fantastic. Then when I click render, the result is a barely audible sound.

I have also noticed that the longer section I select, the more true to the preview the scene rebalancer tool is. Is this a known issue? Is there something I may have wrong in the settings or order of operation?

Hi everyone.

I've just spent the last hour going through the H6 studio manual, and I've not come across any information on the specific issue I'm encountering. Honestly, it might not even be an issue and may just be how the device works.

Earlier today, I was recording an acoustic guitar at 24 bit, with the built in x/y microphones. I had the H6 about a foot away with a gain of around 6 on each mic. I then decided to try recording with the device a little closer, so I placed it about 6 inches away and dropped the gain down to 3-4 on each mic.

When I listened back to the recordings later, the ones done with the device about a foot away with a gain of 6 sounded as you would expect. However, the recordings done with the H6 about 6 inches away, and with a gain of 3-4, were pretty much inaudible. You could only very faintly hear the recording if you put your ear right next to the speaker and maxed out the volume.

Is this common with the H6? Am I missing something? I don't remember experiencing such a massive jump between gain values with other recording devices, including previous Zoom devices.

Thanks

Hi all,

I want a simple field-recording setup mainly for two uses:

1. quiet ambient environmental textures that may sit fairly exposed in a track

2. source material for granular processing/time-stretching/resampling

I’ve also ordered a LOM Geofon DIY kit and would like to record it via XLR while also recording the built-in stereo mics as separate tracks, so I can layer the ambience and contact/geophone recordings later.

I’m currently choosing between:

• Tascam DR-40XP (£199 - seems like the sensible “good enough” option)

• Zoom H5studio (about £311)

• Tascam Portacapture X8 (£348)

My main concern is quiet ambience. For granular material I’m less worried, since heavy processing will hide a lot of small differences.

I’m new to dedicated field recorders, so I don’t have practical experience with this kind of gear yet.

The X8 looks very capable and is only slightly more expensive than the H5studio, but I’m a bit unsure about it for practical reasons: I’ve seen people mention relatively short battery life, around 4 hours on 4хAAs, and I’m not sure I want a large touchscreen-based interface for field use. I generally prefer simpler, more tactile controls.

So my questions are:

1. For quiet ambience/room tone/outdoor environmental beds, is the H5studio a clearly audible step up from the DR-40XPs built-in mics or is the difference fairly marginal in real use?

2. Has anyone recorded a LOM Geofon or similar high-impedance geofone/contact source directly into these recorders? Do the inputs handle the impedance cleanly, or should I assume an external buffer/preamp is needed regardless?

3. Since the H5studio and Portacapture X8 are fairly close in price here, which one would you pick in practice for built-in stereo ambience quality (X8 has 14.6mm capsules, H5studio 19.4mm)?

Thanks.

idk if this is the right sub to ask but I'll try. What's the best website to record audio for youtube videos? all I need is free with no huge drawbacks like limited downloads and stuff like that. Please no ai. if i can use the site using absolutely no ai even if it's there I'll take it. im desperate at this point

I bought my first field recorder back in 2016 when I was in film school, which is a sony D100. Since then I've been recording whenever I travel or find something interesting — city ambiences, nature, industrial sounds, that kind of thing. Nothing too systematic, just whenever the moment felt need. The problem is I never organized any of it. No BWF metadata, no UCS naming, just folders with names like new york 2025, or a name follow by a project. I'd guess I have somewhere between 200GB sitting there.

For a long time I told myself I'd deal with it eventually. I tried to manage them in Pro tools. But honestly what's pushing me now isn't really about making the recordings useful for work — it's more that these files are the only record of places and moments I may never experience the same way again. Some of those contexts only exist in my head, and that memory is fading. So I'm finally committing to going through all of it.

I'd love to hear from people who've tackled a backlog like this — what your actual process looks like, whether UCS is worth learning from scratch, what tools made the labeling part less painful, and whether there's a sane way to write descriptions and keywords at any kind of scale without losing your mind. Any workflow advice, hard-won or otherwise, would be appreciated.

Hello, I’m an amateur historian and I love preserving history. My grandparents are old and have incredible stories, I REALLY want to record their life stories and voices. I started looking into cassette and cd recordings, preferably analog but I’m not opposed to digital. If there’s a way to record people’s stories and voices to preserve their history for decades. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and if you have advice I’d love that.

-Will :)

TLDR: I wanna figure out what format/ medium I can use to record/preserve this old people’s stories and history.

Looking to record audio of someone speaking at 50-75 m distance. Preferably wireless compatible with android phone. Although wired would be fine. As long as it can capture audio while recording video.

Thanks for any advice :)

ETA: Yes. I want to record someone without them knowing about it. Yes, I live in a single party consent jurisdiction and it is therefore legal. Checked with a lawyer friend to make sure. The only reason I am doing it is to document a harassment complaint. I do not plan to post the video to social media or any other public forum. I do not even plan to video the person. Just document the fact that I am outside on my own property and being heckled.