@maxr I think I hear what you're talking about. What editing adjustments did you do to audio? Was it just increasing volume or did you do other adjustments? (Here's an idea that could be totally wrong but worth mentioning: if you're media encoder is good for video but bad for audio, maybe do video with one encoder and audio with another and join the two files in something like QuickTime Pro. Not even sure this is doable, but might be.)

Ditch the filters from audition and find a neutral compressor (like L2, based on the Gerzon code), the flickering in the background is probably a combination of the compressor and the noise reduction working at cross purposes.

I'm not sure your goal should be to have a good Vimeo result--just one of many platforms. Just make the sound as good as you can, YouTube and Vimeo often change the way they encode things.

My dear @DrDave and it's not. But after I saved the master file onto a LTO tape inside a reinforced box made out of vanadium's dreams buried 100 meters deep in a nuclear bunker with a top secret location (next to a sex shop) near Vladivostok marines' kindergarden - one has to love the frozen sound of children laughing - I just want that at least the few lost souls that end up watching/listening my poopoozas can have as accurate as possible idea/feeling/sense of whatever stupid "experiencing" I'm trying to articulate. Now and forgetting that I am a jerk, that's doesn't sound too silly a goal, wouldn't you say?

@matt_gh2 I have a youtube account, I upload the FHD (larger MB) versions there, actually I'm uploading a new version now to hear if any difference. Basically youtube worst visually, better sonically. I could also get a Plus account... but my religion states that if one does so would live 200 more years and honestly I doubt I could endure 1 more extra second of this funny torture that some enlightened people and a few clowns call life. ••• Shall we call Max von Sydow? =)

Older YT version

Very much improved fresh one

Without mixing a metaphor, it's still better to future-proof the audio. They might recode relatively soon. Seems like they recode it more often if you have more views as well.

@maxr I'll take a listen in the morning but you definely should NOT be doing N/R after compression. N/R should be first thing you do after you bring the level up to nominal level, i.e. 0VU or -20db or, even better, 0 LUFS (~ -24db) if mixing in EBU 128 standard.

Hey @space !!!

you definely should NOT be doing N/R after compression

tatooed in my left arm

N/R should be first thing you do after you bring the level up to nominal level

And this would be just increasing audio levels or more like a normalisation?
Should EQ be done after the O LUFS and NR?
Sorry if questions are silly, I know nothing about sound effects workflow chain

were you next to a water fountain?

Indeed, also lots of people conspiring on the BG
Space if you want to listen to the recorded raw audio here it is - 40 MB zip

@maxr

Loaded file into my DAW. Few things:

*Always try to record Dialogue in mono, stereo files complicate the shit out of everything. So first thing to do is split stereo into left/right channels then use only one.

*Very good lesson in why it is important to use directional mic when recording in noisy places. If not you pick up EVERYTHING....

*Your Subjects voice is relatively low compared to ambient noise. This means there is not much you can do but try to reduce as much BG noise as possible but without degrading his dialogue. I would not do more than 6-7db of NR. It is not an optimal recording so the intelligibility of what he his saying is low. Solution: Add subtitles.

STEPS: -split stereo tracks into 2 mono tracks. Choose one of the tracks. -Add 16db gain so that subject's voice averages ~ -23db -Do moderate NR -After NR do 18db/octave high pass at 100Hz -You can add EQ to your liking. Remember, this will affect ALL audio on file, not just his voice, unless you automate (nothing wrong with that) -DO NOT add compression, you don't need it and are just raising the background level which you have been trying so hard to reduce!

Last thing. Some ambient noise is GOOD. The subject exists and is "being" in an environment which has to be heard since that is how we experience reality. If all we could hear is the subject in a park with people and activity around it would feel completely off.