- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you how to remove
echo from dialogue in Adobe Audition CC.
(digital crackling)
Okay, here we are in Adobe Audition,
and here is a podcast with
less than perfect recording environment.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
Brandon's entrepreneurial journey
from high school dropout to brick.
- Okay, so it's not bad, but it's not perfect.
It could be better.
It's recorded in a room,
hardly any sound treatment in there.
You can definitely hear the reflections,
the echo coming back, especially here.
- [Man] About. About.
- Let's zoom right in on that.
(echo repeating)
There's our echo.
Now there are a number of ways to do this,
ranging from hard to easy.
Easy is just one click effect from zero to 100%.
I will show you that at the end of the video,
because first of all, I think it's important to know
some of the tools in your toolkit to make echo disappear
using traditional methods like EQ,
and a little bit of noise gating,
and possibly downward expansion.
Don't worry, by the end of the video,
you'll know how these all work.
So let's start with EQ, because this is a great easy win
to remove those nasty frequencies
that are causing the echo in your recording.
Let's go into Effects, let's go into Filter and EQ,
let's for Parametric Equalizer here.
And on the default, it's just a flat line.
Now we can take all of these curves, and notch them up.
But of course, they're rather broad,
and we wanna be nice and tight
so we can scan through frequencies,
and pull out frequencies that we can
hear the echo occurring in.
So we're gonna make this smaller
by changing the Q width to 16.
There we go.
Now we got a little notch,
and I'll show you how this works.
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Brandon's entrepreneurial.
- So we're essentially scanning through the audio,
and we're going,
(imitates wave frequencies)
and what we're listening out for
is a particular frequency where you can hear the echo.
You'll hear it in your headphones,
and I suggest you use headphones when doing this.
And when you hear that, oh, there's lots of echo there,
then we just notch it the other way,
we notch it out like this, let's do it now.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
Brandon's entrepreneurial journey
from high school dropout to brick and mortar business owner.
- Right, right about there, there's low-end echo,
that's at 113 Hertz.
So let's pull that down,
and we'll reduce it by about five DB.
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- So a lot of the low-end echo has now gone.
Again, we'll do this Q width 16 on number two,
push it up, and let's play.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
Brandon's entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout
to brick and mortar business owner, to culinary school,
to launching an online lifestyle consulting academy.
- Right there, let's pull that one out at 355 hertz.
(imitates dropping frequency)
Out you go.
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- And then again, we'll do the same with number three,
Q width to 16.
And we can do this with up to five points if we want,
in parametric equalizer.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout to
- There it is, another one to pull out. Zoop.
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- Let's do it with number four,
we may as well do it with all the points here.
It's definitely worth to scan through.
- [Man] In this episode we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout
to brick and mortar business owner.
- Okay, and around about there,
I'm also gonna pull that frequency out.
It's also good to place on a high pass filter as well.
It doesn't hurt to get rid of the low-end
using a high pass filter, so any rumble,
background noise, road noise that doesn't need to be there.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout
to brick and more.
- Okay, so before,
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- After.
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- Not much of a difference, but a slight difference.
We can even move these down a little bit more
just to have more of an impact.
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- Already starting to make a difference.
The next thing I'll do before adding our final effect
is go into Effects, Amplitude and Compression,
and we'll look for dynamics here.
Set this to default, and we'll be focusing on
the Auto Gate, and the Expander.
Auto gate is like a noise gate.
It opens up when audio goes above a certain level,
and closes when it goes below a certain level.
So the idea is here, we'll be eliminating
some of that little echo in between the speech.
Let's set this up right now.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
- Okay, that's way too aggressive,
'cause it's clipping his words.
So we want to move the threshold down.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout to brick.
- So right about there still clipping the words.
This is where we'll leave attack and release the same,
but push the hold-up ever so slightly
to maybe 40 milliseconds.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout
to brick and mortar business.
- Okay, let's switch that off and listen to the difference.
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entrepreneurial journey - On.
- [Man] from high school drop out
to brick and mortar business owner.
- Working really well.
You can also do the same with expander.
It's essentially the same as gate,
apart from the fact that it's more of a
fader going up and down rather than
just a hard cut, open and close.
Can be better for dialogue.
So let's switch auto gate off, and try minus 27.9 on this.
You need to push the ratio up a bit for it to work.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into Brandon's
entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout
to brick and mortar business owner,
to culinary school, to launching an online.
- And we can use them both in tandem if we want.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
Brandon's entrepreneurial journey.
- All right, let's hear how far we've got
with just these effects.
So this is the echo before.
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Brandon's entrepreneurial
- This is the now restored version.
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Brandon's entrepreneurial journey from,
- And finally, if you want that really easy effect,
this is the easy effect you've been waiting for.
You can go into Effects, Noise Reduction Restoration,
and there is actually a dereverb effect,
it's really rather good.
And simply it works by an amount, zero to 100%.
That's as simple as that,
doesn't get much simpler than that.
So let's crank this up,
and see what it does to make a difference.
- [Man] In this episode, we dive into
Brandon's entrepreneur.
- Now obviously the higher I push that, the more
it's working, and the more it's degrading the speech.
So we need a sweet spot here,
maybe between 30 and 40% max, I'd say.
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entrepreneurial journey from high school drop.
- There we go. Apply, done.
Now obviously afterwards,
we can add a little bit of compression.
In fact, let's go ahead and do that.
Amplitude and Compression Dynamics,
let's set that back to default,
compressor on, switch the preview window on
so we can see the difference it makes,
ratio of three to one, threshold of minus 20,
or probably quite a little bit too much there.
Let's go up to minus 15 minus 13,
just so we're evening out the peaks.
Push the makeup gain up.
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- Apply it.
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entrepreneurial journey from high school dropout,
- And then back to the echo version,
this is the before version.
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Brandon's entrepreneurial journey from high,
- After.
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Brandon's entrepreneurial journey from,
- So as you can hear, not perfect,
but a heck of a lot better.
So remember those steps.
Remember to go through your parametric equalizer,
notch those frequencies,
remove the echoey frequencies using headphones.
Then remember to use your noise gate, and your expander
inside amplitude and compression dynamics.
And finally, as a catchall,
and maybe the thing you should use from the start,
if you wanna just do it quickly and save time,
is the noise reduction and restoration,
and the dereverb effect, it really is fantastic.
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