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I had to use voice isolation to get rid of some background noise. It worked, but it worked too good, that it killed the reverb of the voice. The voice needs to sound like it's in a room, and distant. Right now it sounds disembodied, and not in a space. Just needs a little reverb to help bring it back to sounding normal for the scene. What would be the best reverb settings for something like that? Like just normal room reverb?

If you are on Studio version, than you should also have access to The Dialogue Separator, which was added for this reason.

"The Dialogue Separator uses DaVinci Neural Engine AI to give you individual control over the level of dialogue, background sounds, and “ambience,” the reverberant field or ambient room sound".

So perhaps before you try to recreate anything, try to preserve what is there. It should sound more natural, unless you have some crazy stuff you need to remove from audio track.

There is a bunch of audio stuff tools they added in new version.



There are no best universally usable reverb settings for room distance, its a matter of taste, and perception. Specific thing you want to convey in your story.

You can try echo filter if Dialogue Separator is not enough.

Otherwise, I would recommend you try to dial it to taste in a way that is appropriate for the video. So the audience doesn't feel disconnected. You wouldn't put grand canyon echo if you are looking a video of someone in a room.

There are also third party solutions that are very good and copy of echo and playing it where it needs to go. Which is another thing that is sometimes done.


Like Accentize Chameleon.

https://www.accentize.com/chameleon/

Chris Chiasson wrote:I had to use voice isolation to get rid of some background noise. It worked, but it worked too good, that it killed the reverb of the voice. The voice needs to sound like it's in a room, and distant. Right now it sounds disembodied, and not in a space.

What if you did the Voice Isolation again and only cranked it up half way? It is adjustable, and often it's a bad idea to get all of the room reverb completely out of the signal, for the exact reasons you cite.

Adding room reverb (and even echo) is a very touchy, twitchy subject, and there are literally a hundred plug-ins that do that out there for professional mixing sessions. Not a simple topic, at all.

Give these settings a try as a starting point. You can adjust the shape and size of the room. Main adjustments I've done here are Reverb Time, Pre Delay, Distance, and Dry/Wet.

Hey
Just a few cts here because it may be just a question of easy tweaks...

1/ As Marc wrote, using V.I. several times (I mean on many different projects) shows that the % of it applied to the track is very likely to be more organic if it's restrained within 50 and 85. At least it's now how I start to use it and just crank it just a bit higher only if needed. This way prevents you from being on planet Mars in the end

2/ I was about to suggest you adding a reverb back on it after the voice isolation. And thus the same as Charles because honestly, this reverb effect is one of the only ones I tried almost any default presets + playing with them to find a satisfying result . I'd say "play with the cube"

3/ if you're very lucky, you may want to use the Dialogue Separator instead of Voice Isolation, since this latter features a BG slider which may be worth a try (in addition of tweaking the other ones)