De-reverberation

[kevvvvv]

michu

kevvvvv, for your way of working
take an IQ4 plugin (or some commercial counterpart, i believe Sonalksis has some eq/dynamics hybrid), dial the eq curve you need to dampen the room sound then switch the bands to downward expander mode and play around with tresholds, so it works only on quieter parts and doesn't affect the voice.

Advice taken. Next time it happens we'll give it a try

[TrevorMag]

Hey guys I might be off base here but what about deconvolver??
http://www.voxengo.com/product/deconvolver/

That would work if the reverb in question came from a known IR. If not, much frustration would ensue. Now if there was a really clear static "click" in the track that was also reverberated...

[Blue Cat Audio]

That would work if the reverb in question came from a known IR. If not, much frustration would ensue. Now if there was a really clear static "click" in the track that was also reverberated...

And let alone in the mix...

So a good advice when recording with a mic would be: "always record a known sound at the begining of track so that you can apply a deconvolution on the track to remove the entire recording chain linear response"

[VanMc]

[quote="kevvvvv"]I've tried on and off for years to rid voiceover of reverb, without much luck.

Usually the verb in question is natural room from an unfortunate recording location.

I've eq'd verby voice to death, and while it is possibel to reduce the verb, the voice loses all it's natural timbre and sounds like another person.

Anyone else any clues here?[/quote]

Try Voxengo's Redunoise. It will eat up reverb to a point.