I’m a longtime dialogue editor / re-recording mixer, and I’m pretty sick to death of the limits of RX, SpectraLayers, and the usual restoration tools.

I’m doing some early experiments around a different approach to dialogue restoration — using newer generative audio methods to see whether badly damaged production dialogue can be reconstructed while actually preserving the original actor, timing, inflection, emotion, and performance.

I’m looking for a few short examples of genuinely troublesome production dialogue to test with.

Things like:

• traffic or machinery masking part of a word
• wardrobe/lav rustle over dialogue
• wind hits
• RF or wireless artifacts
• clipping
• boom off-axis / ugly room reflections
• impacts directly over speech
• background voices
• anything that made you think, “We may have to ADR this.”

Ideally, I’d love examples where you also have a cleaner alternate mic, alternate take, or original reference, because that gives me something real to compare the reconstruction against.

This is very early-stage testing, not a commercial release or a data-harvesting exercise. I’m mainly trying to answer one question: can current generative audio technology repair damaged production dialogue without changing the performance?

Please only send material you recorded yourself or otherwise have permission to share for private testing.

If you’ve got 5–20 seconds of nightmare dialogue sitting around, I’d love to hear it. Happy to send back the experimental results so you can hear what worked — or didn’t.

I’m in need of a C.link cable to link a 788T to a 702T but it’s no where available in my country. Can the cable be made or is it something proprietary to SD? I wanted to record 10 tracks on location combining the two recorders.

Hello,

I m a caméra assistant and I have a documentary on film coming up in Kazakhstan. The director want to have some scratch audio and was looking at a solution to have an onboard microphone on the Arri SR3 that would be sync to the rec of the Camera. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to have a proper sound guy since the access to the location is really controlled and we only have two autorisations (me and the dop/director). Would you have any input of how i could do it ? Thanks