Hi Philip, Been there done that. As you say it doesn't really work. Goldwave and Soundforge are great tools, but every time you edit a file using the handy sound filters you might get rid of the background noise you also lose some sound quality as well. What you end up with sounds almost as bad as what you started with if not somewhat worse like being too tinny, muffled, whatever. There really isn't a way to get a professional recording out of substandard equipment. I know that all too well. For example, many on here know in addition to a game developer I'm also something of a musician. I can play keyboard, guitar, and drums. Thing is though all of my gear is budget quality stuff. So even though I have the talent to record my own game music it wouldn't sound as good as a professional could do. I don't have the right gear for a professional recording, and I know it. Whenever I record my keyboard it sounds good from a budget home musician's point of view, but the sound faunts sound like crap compared to something a musician with a keyboard that costs 10 times more than mine. Got the talent, but not the tools.
Cheers! On 3/19/10, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > WhenI first started out with Pb-games and Pb Soundscape I also worked a lot > with people who eere using 25, 50 and 75 dollar things, and no matter how > good their acting skills were, it took a considerable amount of time to > clean up the recordings and the result were seldom completely up to scratch > anyway which just made for an impossible situation in the end. So with > Blastbay I decided to simply not use recordings made with such gear at all, > and go the professional equipment root all the way. I have set up a decent > studio here at home that I use frequently in my gaming work and also in > other audio productions that I do, and this has proven to be an invaluable > asset. This way, I get top knotch audio for all of my newer games and never > have to worry about using noise reduction, pop/click removal or any other > such techniques. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
