Can I tone down a hall echo?

DGrob wrote on 8/26/2005, 6:42 PM

Topic says it. I've got some young adults in an open, hard room and a shotgun mic on a Z1. I'm trying to close down the tone to downplay the echo??? Any ideas appreciated. Darryl

Comments

bgc wrote on 8/26/2005, 9:14 PM

Unfortunately removing reverberation and echo is very difficult and there's no easy way to do it.
bgc

DGrob wrote on 8/27/2005, 3:28 PM

Rats . . . Rats . . . Rats . . .

farss wrote on 8/28/2005, 6:47 AM

Can be done and it's a very old technique. Save me posting it again do a search in the video forum for my post on the topic. I've done it several times with pretty good results after a bit of tweaking.
Bob.

DGrob wrote on 8/29/2005, 1:38 PM

Got it (echo-farss). Will give it a go tonight. Thanks a bunch! Darryl

MikeA wrote on 11/22/2005, 5:56 AM

I've been working on a wedding video that was done in a cathedral and as such every little noise was dripping in reverb. I tried using the Noise Reduction plug-in to remove as much of the room noise as possible and a couple of times I set it to remove too much. I noticed though that it sort of worked like a noise gate and a considerable amount of the reverb was removed. The resulting sound didn't sound real natural, but the reverb tails were reduced as was the overall boominess that was originally on the track. You could try this if the end audio quality wasn't an issue.

Mike