Removing foreground noise

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Removing foreground noise

Post by mbgottli » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:47 pm

Hello,

I have a recording from a video camera where there is music playing, but there are people around
the camera that are talking, creating louder foreground noise than the music that is being recorded.

Is there a way to remove this foreground noise in Audacity ? I have tried using the Invert effect as
mentioned in a couple of tutorials without much success.

Thanks in advance.

Martin

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Re: Removing foreground noise

Post by kozikowski » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:53 pm

In a word. No.

In order to remove something from a performance, there has to be some difference between the interference and the show. Voices and instruments are too close to each other in quality, direction, frequencies, etc. etc.

The hardest part of a video capture isn't the picture. It's the sound.

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Re: Removing foreground noise

Post by mbgottli » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:59 pm

Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the info.

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Re: Removing foreground noise

Post by kozikowski » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:32 pm

You can get lots of those same sort of answers here...

http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/list.php?1

Koz

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