solve audio nightmare

WOW! That is very strange. Can you recreate the setup at home to see if it's duplicateable? As a guess I would think it's the Pix 240 getting up to speed?

Eric

After I replied I realized that you may also want suggestions on how to remove the audio artifacts. My suggestion would be to apply a noise removal filter: find a point where you hear the artifact alone (when the speaker isn't speaking), use that point of audio as your noise profile. You may have to play with eq afterward, but the frequency of the artifact is pretty distinct and sound fairly low-end. It shouldn't affect the speaker's voice. I'm not sure what software you use to edit, but I've found Audacity's noise removal filter to work quite well. If you want to use Audacity, just use your favorite video editor to strip out the audio to a wav file and work with it in Audacity.

I noticed there was a section where the audio cuts out completely and comes back. I'm not sure what caused that, but there's nothing you can do for that. If it's a problem - having the audio cut out - then try to stylize it by doing a fade out into the cut-out portion, and a fade in afterward. You'll still have your audio missing but listeners will think it's intentional.

HTH

David H. Watson
dEhiN Entertainment

Hi Chris,

Yeah, that had to be annoying! If I had to guess (and that's exactly what I'm doing) I'd say it's being caused by some sort of cell phone interference. At least, I've been in a couple of instances where a similar sound occurred.

Dave J