Splitting Stereo tracks to isolate vocals

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cyrano
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Re: Splitting Stereo tracks

Post by cyrano » Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:07 pm

There's two voices... Neither of them ar really mono. And the male voice isn't in the centre. Besides, it's been an mp3, which doesn't help either.

In short: I can't make anything of this audio. Maybe someone else can?

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Re: Splitting Stereo tracks to isolate vocals

Post by Robert J. H. » Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:41 am

cyrano wrote:There's two voices... Neither of them ar really mono. And the male voice isn't in the centre. Besides, it's been an mp3, which doesn't help either.

In short: I can't make anything of this audio. Maybe someone else can?
I've described in other places how you can isolate a band that is not full in the center.
There are two approaches:
- bring the voice into the center by panning the track (and mix and render)
- rotate the stereo field (e.g with the 2D Stereo Toolkit)

Here, I've used Rotation, starting by 30 degrees and subtracting 6 degrees every second. Listen how the focus changes from voice to voice.
eur-1.mp3
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However, there's still a lot of background music bleeding in and there are advanced techniques asked for, such as spectral editing, percussion filtering. It always depends on what you want to achieve. In remixes, the (musical) noise is often masked sufficiently.

Robert

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Re: Splitting Stereo tracks to isolate vocals

Post by cyrano » Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:45 pm

Thx for the tips, Robert.

I don't do vocal removing very oft. And I doubt if the OP is willing to put in so much effort. People expect magic from computers... :D

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