Dear Community, the following is a Facebook post in a church audio video group but I’d thought ye and Mike would be best to find the post-production solution. So far it seems noise-gate is the best way. I’m not saying that better mic placement and better mic is not more important though. I’m editing my videos in Premiere Pro but recorded the audio in Audition from a RØDECaster Pro II. So here is the post:
This is the mic that our priest uses for speaking (not singing). But after times of complaints of not been heard by congregaants over the years, he has the good habit I suppose of keeping his mouth close to the mic when speaking. However the down side of this is that every breath and mouth movement can be heard and seen on the waveform when I’m editing in Premiere Pro (we do pre-record and not live stream). There is no problem for those present in the church but there is on the post production edit that I make for our sister church who watch the recordings one week after the fact overseas. They don’t notice the issue as I have been manually cutting between each word and only leaving ambient room noise between each word. But naturally I can’t have the patience for this forever.
The mixer I’m using is a podcast one called the RØDECaster Pro II as we are a Catholic Church and have no band on stage like Houses of Worship. We have a small choir with two mics in the gallery for them which has been perfect. I’m saying this because I’m sure most here would be wondering why I don’t have a real mixer which could remove all these ssss with the d-esser. I know the RCP II has a d-esser but it’s not making much difference.
I don’t mind bringing the files into Adobe Audition and run some sort of script to make it perfect. That’s one solution but I’m not surprised if it’s probably the mic that’s not the right one for this use case. I know someone here will probably recommend a pop screen but then that gets for a crappy view of the priest on camera hidding behind a screen taking up much of the picture.
I’m hoping I’m making this setup understandable. Any help?
