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Removing foreground noise

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:47 pm
by mbgottli
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

Re: Removing foreground noise

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:53 pm
by kozikowski
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.

Koz

Re: Removing foreground noise

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:59 pm
by mbgottli
Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the info.

Re: Removing foreground noise

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:32 pm
by kozikowski
You can get lots of those same sort of answers here...

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

Koz