Echo removal

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Rob

I don’t see a link to your file.

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[Mike Kujbida]

No guarantee but try the method descriged bybuser farrs in this thread. His second reply is the one to look at.
Good luck.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/echo-in-voice-over–80704/

[Rob Lindsay]

I tried the “reverse phase” but I’m not sure I did reverse it. Would someone make that a bit clearer, please?

I tried a few different Vegas audio FX but none had any effect.

I have uploaded a sample of the audio.

Thanks for your help,

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[Eric Clinch]

Where’s the uploaded file?

[Graham Bernard]

[Eric Clinch] “Where’s the uploaded file?”

Eric, click on Rob’s name.

I’m gonna make me a cup of coffee and going to have a go too. Luv this Forum!

* Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

[Rob Lindsay] “A room with a boom.”

Well, you have other issues too, beyond the, what I would regard as marginally acceptable “boom”, and those are sibilance and clipping.

So, I’m falling into the two areas of:

A] ACTIVE: Doing something to rectify, which in itself is not a given.

or . . .

B] PASSIVE: Not doing anything at all, and leaving well alone, maybe the sibilance and clipping.

But I’m now going to have a go using iZotopeRX6 Advanced to just see IF there is a result in the offing.

* Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

I’ve done my usual precursive approach through iZoRX6Adv to garner, gather any knowledge of the issues and in IMHO, this will never be a Studio recorded sample, but I’m guessing you know this too. OK, like any of this work the more I experiment, the more I’m revealing and quite frankly, the more damage I’m doing.

Here’s the list even before the any “boom” or DeReverb removal/reduction. I’ve got:

• Sibilance
• Clipping
• Background noise issues: people speaking, slamming doors
• Hum of various freqs

All of which conspire against getting that boom, IMHO the lesser of the “Evils” out of the way. In which case I’m starting to favour my approach B.

* Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Really enjoying the puzzle . .

O…K… Here’s what I’ve felt I’ve needed to use:

My approach was to reduce any extraneous noisy items prior to dealing with the actual boom. I needed to hear the speech as cleanly as possible. This meant Declicking and Declipping and DeCrackling. Removing any HUM and generally reduce any background noise. I think I got that? I now drove towards the dialogue and experimented with dialogue enhancement. Then and only then did I attempt the DeReverb – the Booming. Got some way but it sounded flat and not organic. And sooo . . I added BACK a tiny bit of reverb.

Honestly, it sounds over-cooked, but I could go over it and restart and smooth it down somewhat. I’ve attached my mediocre attempts here. What do you think? 11955_graziesampled11954audioclip1.mp3.zip

* Grazie

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[Marco Baer]

I think you need an external plug-in. Grazie already posted a good example.

To reduce reverb I use a plug-in called “DeVerberate” from Acon Digital. Listen to the file attached.

[Graham Bernard]

Nice result Marco. I’ve got the ACON one too and I’ll give it a go. Also to reinforce your plugin comment, the farss (Bob) approach can’t do much for the folding-over of the other impediments to reducing the boomingness.

* Grazie

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