Removing reverb from a recording

[Dave1957]

Audacity 2.0.6; Windows 8.1

I recorded a speech on my iPhone in an arena used primarily for rodeos. Needless to say, it is not a quality recording but was the best that I could do. I am a "low level user" of audacity. I would like to know if there is a way to remove the reverb. I looked at the reverb effect but it looked like it only added reverb.

Thank you for any help you can give to me.

[kozikowski]

Post some of the show here. You can post five seconds in stereo WAV, ten seconds of mono WAV, or many seconds of MP3.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887

Don't get too excited. Very few people can take echo and reverb out of a recording. That's what kills people recording podcasts and audiobooks. If you don't record them clear and clean, you're dead.

Koz

[Dave1957]

Navajo_Code_Talkers Segment.mp3

(723.26 KiB) Downloaded 208 times

Attached is about 1 minute of the speech as an MP3 file.

[kozikowski]

Thank you.
No.
The recordist was just too far in the back of the hall.

If you can't get your microphone in the speaker's face,



Or do a one-on-one,



Then the only other trick is stand next to a public address speaker and turn your recorder down.

The last trick isn't a trick. Use a long distance microphone.




I think that's the whole list.

Koz

[kozikowski]

There is one other "trick." I can't believe you were the only person to record that. Start calling around.

Koz

[kozikowski]

There was an old posting of a novel way to use Noise Removal to help bad echo performances along.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 64#p251864

I haven't been able to help this recording much myself, but in the absence of other tools...

Koz

[Dave1957]

Thank you all for your help. We just do what we can do.

[kozikowski]

I've been messing with it for a half-hour. I can make it different bad. But not improve it.
Koz