rec.arts.movies.production.sound

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> I'm editing a documentary, and I've got one scene where someone is
> giving an important speech. There's an annoying pop song playing
> faintly in the background.
>
> What I want to do is to use an audio editing program to throw out some
> frequencies to make this pop song inaudible or unrecognizable without
> dramatically affecting the subject's voice.
>
> This seems possible because the pop song is a high-pitched female
> voice, and the subject is a male with a deeper voice.
>
> If I lose some quality on the subject's voice it is not that
> important, because he is speaking in a foreign language and the scene
> is subtitled anyway. I just want to get rid of this song playing in
> the background so it doesn't detract from the scene and so I don't
> have to pay licensing rights on the annoying thing.
>
> Thoughts? I have access to the program Adobe Audition.

So if you want to post a 10-15 second exerpt WAV file online
somewhere, we could show you what can be done.