Good Morning. I made a homemade recording with a cell phone, and even in mono, the sound seems to be coming from far away. Is there a technique or plugin to make the sound "get closer"? Thanks
I think this could be caused by the reverberation of the sound of your voice where you made the record. Do you record in a room with empty walls and no carpet? Record studios insulate their walls and floor with soundproof material to remove reverberation. You can replicate this easily by recording under a thick duvet. Putting a lot of bedcovers, carpets and pillows in your recording room can improve the sound immensely.
There are also softwares and plugins out there to remove reverberation from recordings like Izotope RX or Accusonus Era Bundle in case you cannot rerecord your recording.
Hello SP. Thanks for your help.
The cause (the reason) of the sound being distant, is because the cell phone microphone is very bad, and it was approximately 1.10m or 33 feet. I will try to use these plugins. What is the name of the effect? "Echo Remover" ?
There are a number of 'de-verb' plug-ins available, none are free AFAIK. Even using the best / most expensive one, do not expect much in this case. They can also produce artifacts that are more annoying than the original problem. 'De-verb' plug-ins generally work decent attenuating mild 'early reflections' (echos off close by hard surfaces)
If you can post a clip somewhere (Dropbox or elsewhere) we can evaluate possibilities,
Hi Rick, thanks for helping me. I put the file on the site: www.joao.eng.br/original.mp4
@JoaoBC I edited the audio of your example with a compressor, Era Reverb Remover Pro and Era Noise Remover Pro. This is how it sounds now. As you can hear there are some artifacts because your original recording is very noisy but it doesn't sound as far away as the original since the reverb was lowered a little bit.
Maybe this is enough for your video. If you want better sound you should record the audio with a microphone or an external audio recorder in a room with little reverb.
@JoaoBC ... that audio can be improved quite a bit but as SP. points out, you should consider a better way of recording audio - maybe use a lav mike on the subject.
Anyway, here is what I was able to do with the audio:
The process used was: Using SpectraLayers Pro 7, delete all 'noise' frequencies below the dialogue lowest frequency and then remove the bumps (all this can also be done in RX7); using RX7 Advanced, increase the gain, apply a light amount of Dialogue De-reverb, apply a light amount of Dialogue Isolate; and then apply dialogue enhancement (Forward Dialogue preset) from iZotope's Neutron 2.
This was done quickly and thus could well be improved with greater sampling of the plugin settings. De-essing would probably be good as well.
Nonetheless, an external audio recorder and a microphone will be a whole lot less expensive than having to buy the software that was used above.
SP, Condex, Thanks for Your helps!
I used the volume, the de-reverb, the noise removal, the compressor, everything from SF, and it was reasonable.
It's a job that the boy's teacher asked for: scientific news. It's nothing too serious, just being audible.