How to rescue audio recorded when you turned away from the microphone
Tell Vizard Agent your voice did not get picked up properly and say what it should sound like next to. It measures your track against the other speaker's, looks at what frequencies actually survived, cleans and re-levels yours to match, then listens back for artefacts and runs the cleanup again more gently if the first pass went too far.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what caused it. "It's quiet" and "I was turned away from the mic" lead to different repairs: one is a level problem, the other is a level problem plus a missing top end. Name a reference too, usually the other speaker, so Vizard Agent has a target to match rather than an abstract idea of a good voice.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Turning away from a microphone doesn't just make you quieter, it takes the top off your voice, so turning it up gives a loud, dull recording. The repair is level and frequency together, and it's checked by listening rather than on a meter. In the session behind this article it:
- Measured how quiet the off-mic speaker's audio was against the other speaker's, in a promo where one of the two had recorded well off the microphone.
- Looked at the frequency content and the spectrogram to see whether the lost detail was faint but present or genuinely gone.
- Cleaned and re-levelled the voice to match the reference, then had the cleaned track listened to for artefacts.
- Re-ran the cleanup with gentler settings when the first pass went too far, and re-checked it, so the first cleanup was not the one that shipped.
- Mixed the repaired voice back into the cut and measured the finished balance across voice, music and effects.
When does this not work well?
There has to be something in the file to recover. A microphone that captured mostly room and very little voice can't be turned into a close recording by Vizard Agent, and pushing the processing that far produces noise with words buried in it. Loud room noise rises with the voice, and clipping is damage, not quietness.
Common questions
Can it match me to the other speaker? Yes. Vizard Agent measures both and levels yours to theirs.
Will it sound processed? Not if it is checked. Vizard Agent listens back and backs off.
What if there is no other speaker? Give Vizard Agent another recording of your voice as a reference.