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Originally Posted by Soulbrother  But remember that whatever method you use to simulate the impulse response (balloon pop, starter pistol, handclap) will all affect the frequency response of the impulse, so it will never be a 'perfect' impulse of the room. |
What about if you use a known impulse, say send him a clicker or other device which you have already samples at your location? I agree it wouldn't be 'perfect' but it should be close enough to improve your results significantly.
I'm no math wiz, but it seems like you could probably use the IR info to get back to something close to the original sound minus any artiacts from the room or mic (Clearly it's difficult if not impossible to recreate frequencies that are completely gone from the vocal recording. You couldn't use an impulse of the room recorded using a subkick to then extrapolate the high frequency information of the sung vocal that was also recorded using the subkick. But as long as you're simply trying to remove unwanted information (the room, maybe some over-emphasized frequencies from the mic) it should work, I would think.