Sampling audio from TV show

[swilow11]

I hope I'm not breaking any rules but I'm trying to record a single line of audio from a streamed TV show. It's basically the perfect line for a track I'm making. I have used a very imperfect method using Audacity which rendered a poor quality recording. I'm hoping some KVR guru has a suggestion.

In terms of equipment, I've got nothing much. I use Cubase, I've got Audacity.

I understand there are copyright issues and am absolutely fine with this topic being closed. I should be clear that it's roughly 7 seconds of dialogue from an Amazon prime show.

Again, apologies if this contravenes the rules.

[T-CM11]

In terms of equipment, I've got nothing much. I use Cubase, I've got Audacity.

So you've got no equipment, no physical devices, not even an OS. Guess the missing info.

[cron]

I hope I'm not breaking any rules but I'm trying to record a single line of audio from a streamed TV show. It's basically the perfect line for a track I'm making. I have used a very imperfect method using Audacity which rendered a poor quality recording. I'm hoping some KVR guru has a suggestion.

In terms of equipment, I've got nothing much. I use Cubase, I've got Audacity.

I understand there are copyright issues and am absolutely fine with this topic being closed. I should be clear that it's roughly 7 seconds of dialogue from an Amazon prime show.

Again, apologies if this contravenes the rules.

Assuming the show is in stereo, Audacity actually strikes me as the 'cleanest' way of doing it - play back the show on the computer while capturing with the 'what you hear' (can't remember exactly what it's called) input mode. Dialogue tends to be centred, so converting the recording to M/S and muting the side might get you a little more voice relative to background.

If the show is in a surround format, you'll probably get the cleanest capture from the centre channel since dialogue tends to live there. If you're lucky, there'll ONLY be dialogue and nothing else in the centre channel - it's not uncommon to find completely clean dialogue on C with even the dialogue's reverb relegated to L & R. Not sure how you'd go about this one since I've only used Audacity to sample stereo sources via the "what you hear'' input mode - not sure if this mode scales to larger channel setups or if it always downmixes to stereo.

[swilow11]

I hope I'm not breaking any rules but I'm trying to record a single line of audio from a streamed TV show. It's basically the perfect line for a track I'm making. I have used a very imperfect method using Audacity which rendered a poor quality recording. I'm hoping some KVR guru has a suggestion.

In terms of equipment, I've got nothing much. I use Cubase, I've got Audacity.

I understand there are copyright issues and am absolutely fine with this topic being closed. I should be clear that it's roughly 7 seconds of dialogue from an Amazon prime show.

Again, apologies if this contravenes the rules.

Assuming the show is in stereo, Audacity actually strikes me as the 'cleanest' way of doing it - play back the show on the computer while capturing with the 'what you hear' (can't remember exactly what it's called) input mode. Dialogue tends to be centred, so converting the recording to M/S and muting the side might get you a little more voice relative to background.

If the show is in a surround format, you'll probably get the cleanest capture from the centre channel since dialogue tends to live there. If you're lucky, there'll ONLY be dialogue and nothing else in the centre channel - it's not uncommon to find completely clean dialogue on C with even the dialogue's reverb relegated to L & R. Not sure how you'd go about this one since I've only used Audacity to sample stereo sources via the "what you hear'' input mode - not sure if this mode scales to larger channel setups or if it always downmixes to stereo.

Thank you. I gave a similar method a try but suspect I did it incorrectly as it sounded awful. Great suggestion re: m/s. Will have another crack at this.

[BertKoor]

Kids these days...

As a child I had a mike next to the tv and told my brother to shut up for 30 min because I was taping my fav song from TopPop.

Now they have effing digital (identical) copies, and they complain about the quality.

Which makes you think... Could the original just sound awful already so nothing could be done?
Because this is my experience with sampling movie dialogs as well: awful quality. Mainly because of violins in the background.

In a busy mix you notice it not so much.

Regarding legality: you may sample everything. It's the publishing which is problematic.

[swilow11]

Well, my first multi-track recording was done via two tape desks side by side. I made primitive black metal with a horrendous casio keyboard and used "tape saturation" to distort everything. I must have recorded about 20 albums doing this. God awful. Thank the Virgin for the DAW.