rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On Sep 24, 1:25 pm, "Richard Crowley" wrote:
> wrote ...
>
>
>
> > 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.

Richard, Courtney, and Philip, thank you for your responses so far. I
am beginning to understand what this involves and it seems that this
will be doable.

Philip, that is good advice you give to always make sure I am not
actually making the track worse.

Richard, here is a link to a 15 second clip of the scene.

hxxp:// /file/p4ya8w

replace xx with tt to download

I'd be very interested to see how you approached it.

Best,
Gould