Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1934977)

The problem with weddings is that once a ceremony is in progress you can't just interrupt the vows if your hear your audio system fails, the only difference between being able to monitor the sound and not being able is that you can hear your audio fail but you can't do anything about it, so much for being a "professional" :)

Originally Posted by Rick Reineke (Post 1934907)

"if I hired someone could they do much more to improve it?"
- Probably, depends how bad it is. It still would not be anywhere near as decent captured sound. Post a few medium resolution MP3 clips, there's plenty of Dropbox type file sharing sites around. Some of the members here and over at the DVX user audio group have iZotope RX Advanced, which can do some pretty amazing stuff.

Originally Posted by Rob Cantwell (Post 1934929)

Yeah echo is pretty hard to resolve, also cutting out the audio between the responses only serve to amplify the problem, I've had some small success with Audition capturing the noise print sample and using that to reduce it somewhat, but it seems you've already done that. Cant see much to be done after that, as it's baked in.
I'd leave it all in noise and all rather than try to isolate the responses, it sort of brings attention to the audio.

good luck with it

Originally Posted by Andrew Smith (Post 1934959)

I don't think this one can be greatly improved at all.

The in-camera mics on your DSLR simply aren't all that flash to begin with and you don't have the necessary proximity to the source that you need to keep when removing the room reverb / echo. (There has to be a threshold between the audio to be kept and the audio to be removed.)

Worse, when working on the file it sounds like I am uncovering the audio "mud" that you get from .mp3 audio compression (where the bits you don't normally 'hear' are discarded). This in addition to what I suspect is an auto-level function on the camera mic that is also playing havoc.

I think everything is working against you when it comes to this audio sample.

I've had a quick try with the latest tech "dialogue isolation" which separates based on voice / non-voice audio. Better but not perfect. Zipped file is attached. (Then there is the accent these people must be speaking with. :-P LOL) See what you think.

Andrew

Originally Posted by Gordon Hoffman (Post 1934976)

I played around a bit with this but I don't really know what I'm doing. I just like pushing buttons.

Gordon

Originally Posted by Bernie Beaudry (Post 1935508)

If you can upload the file before any attempts at noise reduction (So the original file) I'll take a go and see what I can do. . I have RX6 and Acon Deverb and I'm pretty practiced on both. In the interim I'll see what I can do with the version you uploaded before.

Originally Posted by Ana Conlon (Post 1935516)

Thanks Bernie you're a star!

Today I've messed around with echo reducers but haven't had any luck with that at all.

I have audio from 3 media sources, there was a zoom on a podium close by and then I had two DSLR cameras. One I was moving about so there are some pops and clicks...and the other was stationary.

I'll post all 3 here naming them accordingly.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1...XdMSzlpd1JFV1k

P.S. After pulling all these files I'm starting to think they sounded better than when I started messing around with them! I only have final cut pro X for audio editing and audio mastering wouldn’t be my strong point!

Originally Posted by Bernie Beaudry (Post 1935578)

I'm making good progress. I think you'll like the result when I'm done. Don't worry about my time this is a great piece to train on. I'll upload them separately when I'm finished.
BB