Help improving recorded audio quality!

[Litos456]

Hello everyone;
I need some help. I'm new to audio editing in general, I actually do videos, but a friend and his other friend did me a favor of recording a piece of guitar+drum track. I want to use it in my video, but there's a problem with the quality - it sounds hollow, because they were recording in a room, and not an actual studio.

What I want to try to do is change this feeling of the sound being in a room and try to get closer to studio quality.
How could I try to go about doing that?

Thanks,
-Ed

[kozikowski]

The short answer is you don't. You can't remove echoes, reverb, and "slap" from a recording. The original live recording or capture is hugely important. There are a number of things you can do wrong at that step that will kill your show, this being one of them. Overloading is another.

Room echo is your own voice coming back to the microphone a split second late having bounced from at least one wall. In effect, the software would have to remove Ed, but leave Ed.

Rough to do.

You can try Noise Gate.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=1272

Noise Gate suppresses quiet music. Echoes are always lower level than the main performance.

Koz

[Litos456]

Hmm how exactly do I use it? I put the .ny file in the plugins folder and opened audacity, but now what?

Perhaps if you have time I could send you the audio file and you could see what it's like for yourself and maybe try doing something to it. It's very short, about 25 seconds, so it probably wouldn't take long; maybe it's possible to improve it at least somehow.