Voice in a can removal suggestions

Question

I am using Audition CS6 V 5.0.2 Build 7 on a Win 7 workstation with a Blue Snowball mike and am getting "voice in a can" sounding voice over recordings. I'm just an audio novice and can't seem to find a way to eliminate most or all of this hollow sound. In the rack I've used the Graphic Equalizer (10 Bands), the Multiband Compressor, and the Vocal Enhancer but don't find a pathway to the removal of this characteristic. It seems to me that I can add qualities, but not subtract them. What to do, and perhaps a bit of teaching about what this characteristic actually is in audio terms would be helpful.

A somewhat related question would be what to do about not changing the tonal qualities of a recording when using noise removal techniques.

Tom Barber

ryclark · Answer

Unfortunately it is virtually impossible to remove this type of effect. Once the audio is recorded the unwanted quality is baked in to the sound and any attempts to use EQ or effects to remove it will very likely also mess up the voice sound.

The only way to avoid this is to sort the problem at source before it is recorded. You need to find out where your voice sound is being messed up on it's way into Audition. It might help if we could hear a bit of what your recordings sound like in order to be able to provide some assistance in sorting it out. Post a clip from the faulty recording with a link to somewhere online like Dropbox, Google Drive or Soundcloud for us to take a listen to.

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