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how to remove unwanted reverb from a recording?

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i have a recording, low quality from a big church in rome.
it is choral music with church organ.

tons of reverb in it.

i have tried saving it but it seems impossible.
it sounds just like from miles away with 10 reverbs applied.

is there a masrtering device, or a mastering tip using my own gear(scope) to remove reverb??
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It's not easy, and it's not even always possible, but...

If it's a stereo recording, I'd split the signal into Mid and Side components, and chuck a Transient Designer on the Side, reducing the Sustain control. You may also find that you can EQ some of it out of the Side channel, but if it was recorded in a large space then the reverb will be pretty much full-bandwidth - especially if it's got a bloody church organ in it! High-passing the sides might help tame the low end of the tails though, which will probably be worse.

Take care to time-align the Mid and Side signals *after* applying the Transient Designer though. You might even want to increase the Attack on the Mid signal as well, though choral and organ stuff isn't very 'transienty', so it might not do much.

Cheers!

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thanks...............


another opinion is in such cases the recorded audio should not be fixed at all.

but i will give it a try
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ARCADIOS wrote:another opinion is in such cases the recorded audio should not be fixed at all.
fix the room first! :D
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you mean the room of St Peter of Rome????
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Yes that place needs some serious work. Some nice grey acoustic panels over those awful murals etc., then it would be cool.
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ARCADIOS wrote:you mean the room of St Peter of Rome????
well, if that is the name of the room...
you will probably need some more acoustic fixing elements than usual, but then, nobody said it would be easy... :D
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kylie wrote:
ARCADIOS wrote:you mean the room of St Peter of Rome????
well, if that is the name of the room...
you will probably need some more acoustic fixing elements than usual, but then, nobody said it would be easy... :D
you could also take lots of pics of the cathedral and use them as a wallpaper for a studio :lol:
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ARCADIOS wrote:
is there a masrtering device, or a mastering tip using my own gear(scope) to remove reverb??

There is (but not for scope (yet)):

http://www.algorithmix.com/en/kstereo.htm

expensive though
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Marvin wrote:http://www.algorithmix.com/en/kstereo.htm

expensive though
isn't that the very same tool that someone requested a scope version of its free "counterpart" sheppi for? ;)
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Marvin wrote:
ARCADIOS wrote:
is there a masrtering device, or a mastering tip using my own gear(scope) to remove reverb??

There is (but not for scope (yet)):

http://www.algorithmix.com/en/kstereo.htm

expensive though

here is the free version
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interesting freebe indeed!!
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pollux wrote:
kylie wrote:
ARCADIOS wrote:you mean the room of St Peter of Rome????
well, if that is the name of the room...
you will probably need some more acoustic fixing elements than usual, but then, nobody said it would be easy... :D
you could also take lots of pics of the cathedral and use them as a wallpaper for a studio :lol:
or replace the old and buggy church organ with a new xite and b2003
and also replace some paintings of the temple with the upcomming namm news?? soniccores spot in namm would be the biggest picture??? :D
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I've heard people claim that they can achieve some improvement in 'drying' up a signal with Transgainer too:
http://www.voxengo.com/product/transgainer/
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