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Fixing microphone bleed

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Fixing microphone bleed

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- In this lesson, we're going to cover an issue that comes up when you have multiple people recording in the same room. It's called mic bleed. So let's say you have two people, each with a dedicated microphone. Mic bleed is when one person's voice gets captured by the wrong microphone, and that creates a small phase issue depending on the placement of the microphones. - [Person 1] Yeah, I mean I, I like hitch and. - [Person 2] But he's always like. - [Instructor] And the more people you add, the worse it sounds because the single voice is now being picked up by say, five different microphones, which are all slightly different distances from the sound source. So the question is how do you deal with mic bleed? The first way is to use good mic placement and make sure that you're setting the gain levels correctly. In the case where there's a lot of people, I recommend making sure each person is talking into their microphone from a close distance of four to six inches. The proximity effect…

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