Removing Speech and keeping sound.

[TheSharkface]

So I want to start using clips from certain shows or other works that I can dub over but I don't want to lose the music, ambiance or other sound effects that make the scenes complete. Is there any way to screw around with levels in an audio editor so I can extract the sounds and muffle out other voices so that I can add in my own?

[Lachi]

At 6/17/13 05:07 PM, TheSharkface wrote: So I want to start using clips from certain shows or other works that I can dub over but I don't want to lose the music, ambiance or other sound effects that make the scenes complete. Is there any way to screw around with levels in an audio editor so I can extract the sounds and muffle out other voices so that I can add in my own?

what i know is: it's gonna be hard to have a clean sound.
i remember a dude achieved this but he had the complete song and the solo instrumental, he wrote that he basically subtracted one from the other, or something similar.

good luck mate

[TheSharkface]

At 6/17/13 05:09 PM, Lachi wrote:

At 6/17/13 05:07 PM, TheSharkface wrote: So I want to start using clips from certain shows or other works that I can dub over but I don't want to lose the music, ambiance or other sound effects that make the scenes complete. Is there any way to screw around with levels in an audio editor so I can extract the sounds and muffle out other voices so that I can add in my own?

what i know is: it's gonna be hard to have a clean sound.
i remember a dude achieved this but he had the complete song and the solo instrumental, he wrote that he basically subtracted one from the other, or something similar.

good luck mate

Yeah... I only have a single audio track and that is whatever one is included in the episode of the show. It's for video clips, not music. So I really don't even have that sort of option. But adding in sound effects and music that matches the scenes will be such an annoyance, especially when soundtracks haven't been released for certain shows.

[mshonkw1]

If it's a stereo track, there's a way you can pretty effectively do this in Audacity. It's a freeware audio program you can download. You split the stereo track into two mono tracks, flip the polarity on one, and put them back together. I can't speak for television really, but in most music the lead vocal is panned dead center in the stereo field. flipping the polarity on one center and putting it together with the other effectively cancels out everything in the middle. A quick google search will find you several articles explaining it.