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farss wrote on 10/6/2006, 2:19 AM
Yes!

There's an old technique that might help.

Duplicate the audio track and invert. You should now here nothing.
Apply serious compression to the duplicated track. Adjust threshold, attack and release times and the level of the track. The aim is so that the compressor is leaving the lower level echo untouched and compressing the wanted part. The net result (hopefully) will be that the lower level echo cancels out, leaving the wanted portion intack.

You can also knock some of the bottom end out. Apply a low shelf on the buss master.

Once you have everything as good as you can render it all out to a new audio track, delete the originals and reset all the FXs, just makes it easier to edit in my opinion.

Do not expect a perfect result but if it's just speech you can get a big improvement.

Bob.
TorS wrote on 10/6/2006, 6:59 AM
I addition, try to find the frequncy where the echo is particularly heavy and reduce it with EQ.
When you have got the optimal result and shed tears over what little remains of your audio track, apply reverb (Cathedral preset). It should camouflage some of your surgery, even things out and preserve some of the church feel.

Do keep in mind that having shot this in a church you ought to have a lot of boom on the audio track.

Dirty trick: Try to overdo the booming on preliminary cuts so that when the doctored parts come they will appear much drier because of what the spectator has been led to expect.
Tor
richard-courtney wrote on 10/6/2006, 7:28 AM
Bob,

I have used your method in the past and it does wonders.
Zooming in on the tracks and shifting the inverted track slightly
you will notice the lows are opposing hills/valleys while highs
(tighter hills/valleys) can be shifted to almost compliment each other.