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irar44174551
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May 9, 2018
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Audio issue... distorted background music

  • May 9, 2018
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So I screwed up... was in a rush and didn't level out my audio input when filming the other day.  Now I have an audio track that is distorted and blown out, but really only with the background music.  Is there a way to reduce the background music and just leave the vocals?

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    ryclark
    ryclark
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    May 9, 2018

    Unfortunately not once you have recorded it like that and the distortion is burnt into the audio file.

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    irar44174551Author
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    May 10, 2018

    So there isn't a way to just drop out the background music?

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    May 10, 2018

    irar44174551  wrote

    So there isn't a way to just drop out the background music?

    Sometimes you can if it's a stereo track and the voice is dead centre - you use the Center Channel Extractor. But if it's single track mono, then no you can't - as ryclark says, it's part of the signal, and also probably at the same frequencies that the voice you want to preserve is, so no filtering is possible. Please don't believe everything you saw on CSI, which has led a lot of people to think that this is possible - their audio processing was complete make-believe!

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