Yup, I'm actually a sound guy (location and studio) first, and relatively got into this stuff recently.

I don't really follow what you said though, the frequency is off so there's a lot of reverb?

If there's a lot of reverb, there's not much you can do and still have it sound natural. You can maybe try a noise gate with a good ambience track, or you may be able to try automating the volume level ("riding the fader" as they used to say). But it's hard to say without having heard it.

If it's an Frequency problem, then there may be a way to EQ those particular frequncies out, or use some kind of RX plug-in solution.

Plugins to reduce reverberation:

http://www.dyvision.co.uk/reverbremover.html
http://spl.info/software/microplugs/de-verb.html

@DrDave

Good MP3 is always enough to indicate main problems.

Quite a booming business now in the cell phone ring tone removal specialty. I have not been to concert or even that did not have phones ringing in the last two years. Cell phone has now moved right on by "bus" "honk" and "ambulance". Interestingly, the honk is usually removable, because those who honk are not moving fast enough, ergo, no doppler.

@ed_lee83 I reccomend taking @SoundGH2 and @DrDave up on their offers. From their contributions in earlier discussion it's been easy to infer that they have the tools, ears and experience to know how to handle this professionally in a way that would go beyond the "extended trial and error" approach it sounds like you'll have to take.

It should also go without saying that will go much further than downloading any plug-in alone could do. :)

Thanks all, I'm liaising with a few peeps here now. Thanks again for the interest and feedback!

@DrDave Oh right right, sorry, I forgot about that. Of course that would be cool. Here's a sample footage I uploaded:

It's in Chinese but you don't need to understand it. Of course I'd be very grateful for anyone willing to spend time to listen to it. I use FCP 7.0 and Soundtrack Pro. So I don't know if it's more feasible to actually send the entire audio track or someone show me what to do with FCP or Soundtrack Pro. Thanks in advance!

Ive got a few goodies to denoise that work with varying results - CEDAR, Waves WNS Z Noise X Noise etc, Izotope Rx, Sonic NoNoise, Sonnox among others - they all have their uses in different areas, RX is a good all rounder if you want a fairly cheap bundle that does most things adequately - or get it right at source. :) much cheaper hehe The Soundtrack denoiser is actually not bad as its free and simple to use.

Mr Moore is indeed correct - sounds like a cable problem affecting the phase of the stereo (and the clunking from the handling) Try a neoprene type cable if your talent is going to be handling the mic - helps a bit - looks v nice tho :)

So what I am hearing is ambient noise from the room and handling noise--someone touching the mic. Since the sound is one source with no bass the phase does not bother me. I'll take one whack. Back in a few. Edit: Phase does make a difference--I guess because the background voices are so strong and different side to side.

Hi all, I had a go too. I agree about the phase etc. I did the phase reverse / expand / EQ thing and it sounds a bit better and I'm sure if someone has time and it's important, I'm sure it's rescuable. I'm sure we've all done the thing where the sound "looks" OK on a meter and it turns out not to have been - and not always easy in noisy environments if you don't have good monitoring that's isolated from the surroundings. Like ed_lee83 says, will be fab once you have a better cable and less handling noise, as these things are a lot easier to get right than to correct afterwards. Still - fun to have a challenge!

Nice job @DrDave - you're more patient than I am. I like your music recordings by the way.