Guest- FaceTime- iPhone Held to Face

I recently recorded a very high profile guest on her iPhone via FaceTime.

She did not have earbuds so she held the phone to her face for the whole interview.

Also, her phone was connected via a strong WiFi signal and there were no glitches in her VoIP audio. And she was in a quiet room. And she didn’t make any noise. There were zero plosives! All good.

However at times FaceTime would compress the audio extremely – like at the very beginning of some of her answers. She would come in loud, and FaceTime would crush the level down, and then it would slowly release over 5 seconds or more.

That’s a difficult/impossible thing to undo in post. I didn’t even try to undo it; I simply used compression on the entire track which helped bring up the level of those crushed parts. And there weren’t THAT many in the entire episode.

Overall her audio turned out pretty good, all things considered!

If you want to hear how the guest ended up sounding in the published episode, listen to it here.

*By the way, you can hear FaceTime’s compression pretty well at the very beginning of the guests answer to the first question. Severe compression starts immediately, then over 5-10 seconds as the compressor releases you’ll hear the level rise and the tone change.

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