today I'm going to show you how to
remove room echo from your videos let's
take a look what's up guys Jay Lippman
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today we're diving back into sound
editing and we're gonna talk about how
to remove room echo from your videos if
you're anything like me you do a lot of
filming in places like this and where is
this exactly well this is the room that
I prefer to call my studio it is what is
supposed to be the dining room of my
house but we've kind of split it in two
that's the storage area back there this
is my studio there's no walls on this
side of the room there's no doors
there's no privacy whatsoever there's no
sound treatment in the room so a lot of
times when I record I get this room echo
where the sound just reverberates off of
all the hard surfaces and it comes back
into I just hit the printer again one of
these days guys one of these days I'm
gonna have my own studio and I'm not
gonna have to worry about cramming
everything in a single location
basically this room is just a nightmare
for sound editing everything just sounds
horrible when you record now obviously
there are things in the filming process
that will help with that like making
sure you're using the right mic for the
right situation and making sure the
microphone is fairly close to your mouth
everything else though needs to be done
in post and I'm gonna show you how to do
that right now
alright so here we are in the Fairlight
Audio tab of Davince Resolve as you can
see I have our test clip queued up and
ready to go I am going to play that for
you real quick so you can hear what it
sounds like this is the sound from the
room that I like to call my studio
there's no sound treatment on the walls
there's no door there's no walls on this
side of the room and my microphone is
about 18 inches to 2 feet from my face
now did you notice how there was some
room echo in there there's no sound
treatment in this room so the sound was
just bouncing off the walls and
reverberating back into the microphone
that's what we are trying to eliminate
by using and equalizer now DaVinci
Resolve has three different ways that
you can equalize a vocal track one you
can equalize the entire track as a whole
two
you can equalize the individual clips
and three you can use the vocal Channel
effect on any clip or track for this
particular exercise we're actually going
to use the equalizer that's attached to
the entire track just because it works
better that way there's more bands to
work with and you know what let's just
dive in and I'll show you alright so the
first thing we're gonna do is something
that I've talked about in a few
different videos we're gonna change this
voice track from a stereo track to a
mono track so we're gonna right click on
audio one change track type to mono
the next thing that we're gonna do is
normalize our clip and the reason why
we're doing this is because we want to
clearly hear all the frequencies that
we're gonna be eliminating so I actually
want to get this clip as loud as I can
get it without it clipping so we're
gonna right click on the clip we're
gonna hit normalize audio levels you can
do negative 3 and normalize from there
we're gonna come over to our mixer we're
gonna double click on EQ to open up the
equalizer let's go ahead and activate
band 1 and band 6 so we can have our
high pass and our low pass filters next
thing we're gonna do is change bands two
and bands five to a Q pattern and then
we're gonna raise the Q factor of bands
2 3 4 and 5 as high as they will go and
from here what we're gonna do is we're
gonna raise the gain on each one of
those bands in the equalizer one by one
in order to catch the frequencies that
are causing the most unpleasant sounds
and then we're gonna drop the gain in
all of those bands and I like starting
from the higher pitched sounds so we're
gonna come over to band 5 we're gonna
raise the gain as high as it'll go which
in this case is plus 20 we're gonna go
ahead and listen to our clip and listen
for the most unpleasant noises this is
the sound from the room that I like to
call my studio there's no sound
treatment on the walls there's no door
there's no walls on this side of the
room
and my microphone is about 18 inches to
2 feet from so you hear that whistling
that's what we're listening for and
we're gonna turn the gain on that band
right there at that frequency all the
way down go over to gain bring it down to
negative 20 I'm gonna come over to band
four we're gonna raise the gain all the
way and we're gonna do the same thing
this is the sound from the room that I
like to call my studio there's no sound
treatment on the that one sounds good
but not gain all the way down raise the
gain on band three listen again walls on
this side of the room and my microphone
is about 18 inches to 2 feet from my
face this is the sound from the room
that I like to call my studio there's no
sound treatment on that's good bring the
gain all the way down and finally band
two the walls there's no door there's no
walls on this side of the room and my
microphone is about 18 inches to 2 feet
from this is the sound from the room
that I like to call my studio there's no
sound treatment on the walls there's no
door bring the gain all the way
down and just from doing that our clip
went from sounding like this this is the
sound from the room that I like to call
my studio there's no sound treatment on
the walls there's no door there's no
walls on this side of the room and my
microphone is about 18 inches to 2 feet
from my face to sounding like this
this is the sound from the room that I
like to call my studio there's no sound
treatment on the walls there's no door
there's no walls on this side of the
room and my microphone is about 18
inches to 2 feet from my face now
obviously the job's not done there's
still a lot of editing to do in order to
get my voice sounding the way that
you're hearing it right now but that one
little thing getting rid of those
unwanted frequencies is going to
diminish the room echo if you're not in
a sound treated room by a lot and it's gonna
take your voice to the next level all
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