My audio file sounds like it’s been recorded in a small room and I have to make it sound like it’s in an open field.
The reverb function is very easy to use and it lets me choose the room size if I want my audio to sound like it’s recorded indoors. But I need to make the opposite and I am very inexperienced with audio editing.
So, is there a reverb that lets me edit the sound like it’s recorded outside?
Outdoors is generally considered to have no reverb (echo) and has a lot of the same characteristics of a studio, the studio being missing bird noises, wind noise, traffic etc. You can put across somebody stepping outdoors in a theatrical production by suddenly deleting the small room echo.
We can’t take echo or reverb out once you put it in. This is the single most serious problem facing, for example, audiobook readers. Microphone, PreAmps, etc don’t help.
There is one exception. There was a recent posting of how to put across a gunshot outdoors. In that case, you might try a low echo of half-second or more. Doesn’t work for voices.
Koz
There was another poster who demanded we produce a filter for all his environment noises: small room echo, neighbor noises, traffic, etc.
Not so far.
Koz
This will always sound like it was recorded in the kitchen because it probably was. The original sound productions in this show were studio recorded and sound perfect. This was an afterthought and I assume they thought they could just record it at home and save a lot of money.
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3
Koz
You’d still get echo or long delay low repeat reverb outside. A studio dead room does not sound the same as outside.
Depending on your recording, you could delete the reverb that strays into silences. Look into impulse response loaders. You might find an impulse that was made outside and would help you.
Would you get away with adding outdoor sound effects?
You’d still get echo or long delay low repeat reverb outside.
Maybe in the city. If you’re standing in a field with no buildings around, there’s nothing. There was a podcast where they stepped into a vineyard and all the echoes vanished when they picked up the outside sound—including the interview.
you could delete the reverb that strays into silences.
Noise Gate? Without something automated, you’re talking about word-by-word surgery.
Would you get away with adding outdoor sound effects?
…bird noises, wind noise, traffic. Although if you can’t get rid of the existing small room sound, that will send conflicting signals. “I have cars and birds in my bathroom.”
Koz
I live in the open countryside and hear sound reflection from trees, farm buildings and whatever else is about. There are gunshots right now with reverb.
Gates would do it. I meant cutting out reverb in bigger gaps than between words in a sentence. We don’t know what the recording is.
Let’s not take what I said to an extreme. Is the reverb bathroom-like? If the reverb is low enough, sound effects could mask it enough. Besides, the birds could be singing outside an open bathroom window.
but virtually no “close up” sound reflections.
“My audio file sounds like it’s been recorded in a small room”
in other words, lots of “close up” sound reflections.
You don’t know how much reverb is in there, and the shots I can hear have short-delay reverb from being near to some trees.
Believe me, I can tell outdoors from a dead room, where you don’t get only no reverb but also higher frequencies are absorbed.
Can we hear the recording? That would help.
The original poster said “My audio file sounds like it’s been recorded in a small room”.
If the original poster had said, “my audio file is devoid of reverb and echoes”, then it would be a relatively simple matter to add any sort of reverb, but that is not what they said.