Removing a sound which plays over another

Question

Hello, everyone! I've used Audacity for years and it has met my needs up until now. I have an issue I'm trying to resolve and I cannot find a way to do it with Audacity. I have acutally never used Audition, and do not know if Audition can possibly help, but I thought I reach out and ask.

Here is my issue: I need to remove the sound of bubbles which can be heard playing when this song begins. Unfortuntately, the bubble sound plays over the very first part of the song, so I can't just crop the sound.

Is there a way to tell Audition to look for a specific sound (such as the bubbles playing) and instruct it to seek that sound out and remove it? Let me know if you need me to clarify, and thanks ahead of time for any advice you may have.

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

It's a 'moving' sound, so Audition won't be able to detect that accurately at all. Whatever it does, the bubbles are going to sound better, I'm afraid. There may be other alternatives, but it's hard to say with just two seconds to play with. If I'm honest, I suspect that you might be able to do a better job on this with some specialist software. Possibly iZotope's RX (currently up to version 9), but it may well be that something like Melodyne could isolate the actual notes at the start and remove everything that wasn't notes, if you see what I mean.

It's remotely possible that you could use Audition's spectral editor to remove a lot of the bubbling sound, but I think it's very unlikely to do a job you'd be happy with. Without hearing the rest of the song it's hard to tell whether there are any other alternatives, but there may be...

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