In article , Dave Plowman
wrote:

There was a lovely post on uk.tech.broadcasting some time ago from a guy
asking how to recover crap sync sound from something shot on DigiBeta with
no sound man - they didn't have the budget. Luckily post was going to cost
several times that to put it right. ;-)

I have absolutely no problem with that from a financial point of view.

Unfortunately, it's pretty bad from the point of professional
satisfaction. Something badly miked and echoey is never going to sound
good, no matter what we do. Had one like that last week- a director staged
a reading of a feature script with a dozen actors in his living room. He
hired a "professional" who set up four mics around the room... mixed them
all at equal levels to a mono MiniDisc(!), and never touched the faders
during the performance. Echo, noise... and still some of the characters
were off mic.

I assumed this was just a reference MiniDisc, and asked for the DA8 or DVD
with each mic isolated. After a bunch of phone calls, they told me the MD
was the only recording that existed.

So despite a bunch of editing to make the performance flow nicely, it
still sounds awful.

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