Hi All

I went to a different studio than usual because of scheduling conflicts, and
got back to my editing room only to find out my VO tracks have a bit too
much room reflection in them for my taste. Anyone know how I might deaden
the sound of the track a bit?

Many Thanks,

Brian

B Todd wrote:
Hi All

I went to a different studio than usual because of scheduling
conflicts, and got back to my editing room only to find out my VO
tracks have a bit too much room reflection in them for my taste.
Anyone know how I might deaden the sound of the track a bit?

Fix the room, but you already knew that.

B Todd wrote:

I went to a different studio than usual because of scheduling conflicts, and
got back to my editing room only to find out my VO tracks have a bit too
much room reflection in them for my taste. Anyone know how I might deaden
the sound of the track a bit?

Use less compression, or fiddle around with the tail of the compression curve
if you have a box that will let you do that.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"B Todd"
I went to a different studio than usual because of scheduling conflicts, and

got back to my editing room only to find out my VO tracks have a bit too
much room reflection in them for my taste. Anyone know how I might deaden
the sound of the track a bit?

If I am getting a lot of reflections in a room, I try cutting around
800hz to 1k about 2 0r 3 db, maybe cutting 8k a bit and bump up around 2k (or
whereever the speaker's voice is centered) a tad bit. Usually the concrete or
glass/formica "bounce" is somewhere around that 800hz - 1k, but sometimes
cutting an octave below instead at 400 or 500 hz works. Also I might put in
filters at 80hz and bump the low end of the speaker a bit.

Basically the low end is the punch which will kick in the
compressor/limiter, and you need "bite" for intelligibilty at a frequency that
does not accentuate the room "bounce". Usually if I am doing more than 3.5 db
of cut/boost I am doing too much at the wrong frequency - usually.

I also would use a pretty fast release time on the dynamics units and a
gentle threshold and ratio - slow attack if you have that control. Slow
release times bring in the room sound as a constant and slur intelligibility,
in this case you really don't want that.


Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

much room reflection in them for my taste. Anyone know how I might deaden
the sound of the track a bit

Copy the track..reverse the phase and put a ducker on the copied track. this
will
cause the out of phase tail to swell up after the spoken word is done...and
hopefully cancel the room sound...adjustments will probably be needed.
Just an idea to try.


John A. Chiara
SOS Recording Studio
Live Sound Inc.
Albany, NY
www.sosrecording.net
518-449-1637