Sonnox Oxford Restore - Manual (Page 7)

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3.5 Dialogue Mode
The Dialogue Mode is another unique feature of the Oxford DeClicker. It is a complete solution
to the problems associated with dialogue where you need one set of Threshold/Sensitivity
settings for the background level, when the speaker is pausing, and a quite different set of
Threshold/Sensitivity settings whilst speaking.
When you enable Dialogue Mode the background GUI changes to display an extra panel. You
now have two entire sets of Threshold/Sensitivity/Enable controls at your disposable. One set
is for the quieter parts, and one set for the louder parts. Access to these two sets of controls is via
the Above Set and Below Set buttons. The Voice Threshold control is a threshold level that
determines which set of controls processes a given signal. If the signal level is above the
threshold, then it is processed by the controls labeled Above. If the signal is below the threshold,
it is processed by the controls labeled Below.
On switching to Dialogue Mode, the first thing to do is set the Voice Threshold slider. When
you touch this slider you see the history of the signal level. You can easily set the threshold using
the fader to be just above the background level while the speaker pauses. You can also drag the
threshold line on the graph.
Set the Threshold/Sensitivity controls
of the Below controls, or drag the
threshold lines on the graphs to
appropriate background settings.
Then click the Above Set button, to
switch the controls over to displaying
the “Above Set” of controls. Set these
Threshold/Sensitivity controls or drag
the threshold lines on the graphs to
appropriate settings for the speech.
The final feature of the Dialogue Mode
that makes it even more flexible is the
incorporation of a Side-Chain. This
feature further defines when the signal level is “Above” the Voice Threshold and when it is
“Below”. Without the side-chain, the Above / Below splitting occurs purely on the
level/amplitude of the signal. When you use the side-chain, Above / Below splitting occurs on
the level of the signal within a particular frequency band.