Concerts are usually recorded remotely. Is it possible in Audacity to reduce the influence of the venue so that it seems as if the distance to the artist has become smaller?
What?
There are 3rd-party “de-verb” plug-ins but I don’t know how well they work.
With classical and acoustic music, you normally want some of the natural reverberation, but the microphones should be close to the stage for proportionally less room sound than you hear in the audience.
The amount of reverb that sounds wonderful coming from all directions in a concert hall sounds unnatural coming from a pair of speakers in your living room.
Rock music is usually close mic’d and multi-tracked so it’s very much like a studio recording. Typically, several mics are used just on the drums. The vocal and other mics can be “split” sending a signal to the PA system and to the multi-track recorder.
Then more mics are used to capture applause and maybe some room reverb.
What he said.
You want to record a performance from the audience? Say that again and use different words.
Koz
If the performer has a microphone, recording closer to a speaker works better than being closer to the performer.
I still can’t do it. When you post a question, the forum helper elves from multiple time zones away have to be able to build your setup in our imagination.
As far a I got, you have a live performer on a stage with an audience. The stage has speakers, microphone, and a sound system. You want to record the performer with the best possible quality. And no, you can’t involve the speakers. That’s the best way to get “ringing,” hollow sound, or outright feedback. eeeeeEEEEEEEEE.
Did I hit it?
Koz
My problem is the following. I would like to make old bootleg recordings of various artists sound less hollow. So with as little influence as possible from the environment where the recordings were made.
Locating the field recorder near the speaker helps to drown out the crowd noise, but since you said these are old recordings, it doesn’t matter unless you have a time machine.
There are no classic tools to help large hall echo and reverberation.
Echos are the performer’s own voice bouncing from the walls and arriving at the microphone late/more than once. So the tool would have to remove the performer’s voice from itself.
However, from the experiences of Skype and Zoom, newer tools were developed to do that. For example if there are five people in a conference and all of them are on free-standing laptops (no headphones), your voice can’t echo from four other connections.
Someone may post with information about those apps.
Koz