LIVE LOCATION SOUND

Real-Time Audio Noise Reduction Solutions for Location Sound

Audio professionals working in the field don’t always have the luxury of fixing location sound issues in post-production. A quick turnaround is often required, especially on projects like documentaries, field journalism, reality television, corporate event coverage, and time-sensitive online content where minimal post-production is available. When the clock is ticking, you need to capture a clean, usable take on set regardless of where you’re working.

CEDAR produces a range of powerful and portable solutions that can eliminate a wide variety of background noise issues, making sure that your working environment doesn’t dictate your results.

CEDAR’s award-winning technologies remove traffic noise, air conditioning, wind, rain, birdsong, babble and general background noise from audio signals, as well as suppressing excessive reverberation and compensating for unfavourable acoustic conditions and poor microphone placement.

From compact and easy-to-use hardware to near-zero-latency software plug-ins, CEDAR has a range of solutions offering ‘magic button’ functionality that helps turn the background world off.

A focus on portability and simple user interfaces ensures that professionals and beginners alike can achieve remarkable results with very little effort.

Confidence Checking

On larger-scale television and film productions, our hardware dialogue suppressors are often used as ‘confidence checkers’ during production recording. Rather than replacing detailed post-production restoration, they allow production sound mixers, directors, and script supervisors to hear a cleaned approximation of problematic dialogue in real time while still recording the original untouched audio. In challenging locations such as noisy streets, crowded interiors, vehicles, or practical sets with substantial ambient noise, CEDAR solutions give the production team immediate confidence that dialogue remains intelligible and can be successfully restored later in post.

By monitoring a processed version on set, directors can make informed creative decisions without unnecessary retakes, while post-production teams still retain access to the full-resolution raw recordings for final restoration and dialogue editing.

Products for Live Location Sound

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