Daw Operation, Editing Task

During our recent session we were tasked with restoring a collection of audio recordings of a poem to an undistorted and noise free, continuous reading. Using the editing modes and tools in Pro Tools I had to split sections of the original jumbled audio file into the proper lines, then along with all the separate clip samples organised on the arrangement window all the samples into their proper sequence.

With some having multiple versions at different quality I tracked them below and once finished with the sequence, returned and replaced each line with the sample I believed was the AKG414 based off the tonality being crisper and less boomier being a condenser microphone compared to the other clips from the SM57 which gives a richer tone being a dynamic mic. There were some areas where the only option was a dynamic recording of a line, so in these instanced I turned the gain down ~3db to level properly as I found this kept the mids-highs at the same volume while also reducing the dynamic low-end, achieving a sound more in line with the other clips.

I then tweaked each phrase's timings, lining up pauses and breaths in a way which I thought lent to the overall rhythm of the reading, adding crossfades between sections that needed it due to snaps or noise. Once I’d listened through a few times to check for anything I’d missed, I bounced the whole track together and exported it to mp3.

Completed Audio File :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14mGJ31tGcrYU5HOA6BEabIygoH1ray1h/view?usp=sharing