URGENT help clean sound on an interview

opatica

opatica

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Hi,
I uploaded a small clip from my documentary with a terrible sound. My Lavalier was not working so I used an Oktava but mounted on the cam. It sounded ok in my headphones but now it turned out with lots of echo. i know it is very hard to fix but i know some pros here might have ways to help it with soundbooth. I am going over tutorials but... I need some help. Just maybe point me to some steps.
It's the middle part that needs to be fixed, the clip start on the ending of the previous scene with good sound, the bad part starts about a second later.
I need it ASAP. And Thank you!

Here is the file in .f4v (reads with adobe media player). 17.5 meg

http://uploading.com/files/8efd7983/sample+sound+to+correct.f4v/
 
Honestly, it's really not that bad. The level jump when you hit the music is a little jarring, IMO, but the reverb isn't too bad on the guy in the kitchen.
You got the camera nice and close, which certainly helps. You could pull a little of the low-mid out, maybe around 500Hz.
 
The first thing I will say is get a better way to share files! You could use drop box or set it up on your Web site or whatever but making people go through layers of "sign up now" and then have to wait to get to download a file you want free help on... I'm doing it but I wouldn't do it twice. You want free ASAP advice the least you can do is make it painless to get the clip. Heck put it on YouTube, I can pull it off there with less hassle. OK my next post will be OT. This was just a heads up that if I were a client I would not be happy to jump the hoops.
 
OK I have to agree that because your cutting to the kitchen it is OK. You can try to use a level based expander gate like the D4 from RN but it's only going to cut down on the room sound a bit. A "trick" that might help is to put something in that will eat up the slight echo. It doesn't always work and you have to live with what is doing the "eating" but for instance a refrigerator hum might eat up the low level echo and be "appropriate" for the kitchen. But then of course you have a refer in the track. Basically that slap back "room sound" is next to impossible to remove. The expander gate I mentioned sometimes helps by removing low level signals when there are not high level signals masking them. When it works you get on your knees and bow in the direction of the sound gods, but it doesn't work that often. Any good sound that you can stand to have in the BG the whole time "might" fix the echo, refer, furnace, a little radio walla? But the catch is it HAS to be there to work so you have to have it run the whole scene.

If this were a narrative film I (if I were the post sound guy) would be working my tail off to try and find a way to make it go away. BUT this is a doc and you get a lot of slack with a doc. I would spend a little time on it but not more. It is clearly in the acceptable range on a doc. But you get five stars for worrying about it. The usual in docs is "can I barely make out what he is saying" Then it's "golden".
 
Thank you for you help. And i did not know that you needed to sign up to view my upload. I will use another way from now on!
 
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