So a friend of a friend got in touch with me to help mix a promotional video addressed to Jimmy Kimmel! This guy wrote a whole script for StarWars Ep9, and needs Jimmy’s help to deliver the script to J.J. Abrams.
Check out the video! Like and share to your friends, and maybe it will get Jimmy’s attention!
The main challenge for that video? As always, getting rid of the huge fridge and ventilation sound in the background, without cutting to much of Obiwan’s voice! Riding the music was a bit of a challenge as well. This is some very dramatic music in the background, that is meant for big theaters and big speakers. I wanted to still get a good feel of the music, without overlapping the narration too much!
Check out the Post Audio page, or the video below!
One of my recent project at work was to record and mix a parody of the hit song Despacito.
Although the song is not that complicated, the amount of production put in the original is pretty intense. The main challenge to me here was to obtain a sound as close as possible to the track, even thought this is just a parody.
We worked with a backing track, and recorded all vocals. The vocal tuner Melodyne was a huge help to get everybody perfectly on pitch, because it’s a requirement in that style of music. It also helped me a lot with shaping and creating backing vocals tracks: the actors are actors and not singers, although they did a great job, it’s not always easy to sing double or third backing vocals.
Well, the Squirrel trial mix worked, and I am now mixing videos for them on a regular basis!
Those videos are mostly new product videos, or instructional/course videos on new techniques. So it might not interest the non skydiving-fan part of the audience :), but the visuals are still awesome in my opinion!
The challenge in these videos are the quality of the vocal recording. The camera man is doing a great job, but the recording often take place on the drop-zones, or airport, resulting in a lot of wind, background noises such as planes or trucks passing by. These guys travel a lot, and some of the vocal recordings are made just with an iPhone sometimes, so it takes a bit of work to make the audio clean and as rich as possible.
Check them out in the Post Audio section, and here’s an example :)
