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I need help in figuring out how, if possible, to clean up the echo sounds in a vocal recording. I have some recorded vocals and they sound good when listened to through regular speakers, but when listend to through head phones the echo of the room they were recorded in really stands out and sounds awful. Is there a way to remove that in software?

I'm not a pro obviosly so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Dosser Sat, 07/09/2005 - 07:04

Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see how the above suggestion would help.

The vocal is already recorded, so there is nothing to mic in the room that would then cancel out the echo by flipping the phase.

Even if you did this while recording new vocals, it wouldn't help. The phase reversed mic would also pick up the sound of the vocal in addition to the echo, and cause cancellation on both, not just the echo.

Sampling the noise floor of the room (HVAC rumble, etc.) and using that with a noise reduction program would only try to reduce the noise floor, not get rid of individual vocal echoes. They would not be part of the room sample. Even if you used the vocal track as your noise sample for the computer, the program has no way to differentiate the vocal you want from the echo you don't want.