I’ve recorded a raw voice recording using a simple mike and would like to add an effect so that it would sound like it’s studio recording. I’ve tried using Gverb but still cant get anywhere close. does anyone know of a setting for gverb or any settings that i can? I’ve tried the following settings:
Roomsize: 20 m²
Reverb time: 10 s
Damping: 0.9
Input bandwidth: 0.75
Dry signal level: 0 dB
Early reflection level: -15 dB
Tail level: -50 dB
Hall Effects:
Roomsize: 40 m²
Reverb time: 20 s
Damping: 0.50
Input bandwidth: 0.75
Dry signal level: 0 dB
Early reflection level: -10 dB
Tail level: -30 dB
<<<would like to add an effect so that it would sound like it’s studio recording.>>>
“Studio Recordings” don’t sound like anything. They are large, dead rooms that allow the artist to record pure voice so that effects can be added later. It doesn’t have to be done with a really good microphone, either, but you do need a blast filter because it’s impossible to get rid of popped “P” sounds later.
You’re on the right track if the idea is to recreate a concert hall. Those do have echoes and ambiance and you can simulate those pretty easily in a software package. You will find that the settings for the reverb tools are way, way too short. You generally need room size settings in the multi milliseconds to get a believable theater.
You can’t, however, take echoes and reverb out. No package to do that, so if you have a recording done in a bathroom, it will probably stay in the bathroom. I have been known to record live on my king size bed and carpeted bedroom to get rid of the echoey room effect. That’s how the Left-Right clip was recorded. No blast filter, either.
I would tell you about the "ProAudio tool that the video people have to clean up nasty, bad, noisy, distorted location sound work, but it’s not April first yet.
In addition to the comments from Koz.
With GVerb, it is useful to make a duplicate of the original track (from the Edit menu) then apply GVerb to that. You will then have two tracks, one dry (no effect) and one wet (all effect) which you can adjust volume wise to create your desired wet/dry mix.
By default, GVerb has a very long reverb, so try reducing it to a couple of seconds.