Cleanup of “hollow’ or echo’ sound in a room

[John Fishback]

Not much you can do. Reflections/echo are very complex signals. My only suggestions are try some + or – eq around the reflection frequency range. And, sometimes taking away in the low hundreds of Hz can help. Second thought is to float in some masking SFX under the dialogue.

John

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[Mark Suszko]

The best plug-in for this would be Ben Burrt’s phone number:-)

on the theory that the reverb is slightly less energetic than the original sound, maybe some eq with downeard expanson would kill off more of the reverbed sound than the original sound? Just grasping at straws here. You’ve tried Sound Soap or something like that already, right?

[Joel Moore]

Good FCP audio filter primer

I use Logic for all my audio. I have not used any of the FCP filters.

For audio editing one really needs to start with good quality reference monitors and a/d/a converters so they can actually hear what’s there before much time is spent working on it. Also a conservative amount of EQ can make a world of difference.

If you’re limited to the native filters, I would suggest trying any one or a combination of the 3-Band EQ, the expander/noise gate and/or the low-pass(aka treble-cut).

Hope this helps.

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