Re: filtering bad recordings

On 3/15/07, tech list <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marty, unfortunately, there's not much you can do since the recording itself
> was low quality. 22KHz should have been OK for voice, but looks like the mic
> was placed badly
> or the acoustics of your room/hall was not the best.
> Your best bet would be to forget about lame for the moment and try out with
> some audio
> tools like audacity. Keep a copy of the original recording and play around
> with some noise
> cancellation, filtering etc. to see what sounds best.

The Postfish tool (linux only) has a filter called 'deverb' that can
remove some amount of excess reverberation, so long as there's a
reasonably strong direct signal in the midst of the echo/reverb.

Monty