Removing background talking from recorded music clip?

[mikehende]

So guys, I recorded a few audio clips from the 70's show "Little house on the prairie". I did so by coming out of the TV's Headphone jack into my laptop and recorded it in Audacity then exported the file as mp3.

While the music was playing in the tv show there was some background noises like people talking, animals making noise e.t.c. I am wondering if it might be possible in any way for me to remove all of the background noises and leave only the music please? Or maybe there might be some specific forum I can try for help?

[astralprojection]

For this I would try izotope rx, and then the music rebalance tool, and turn vocals to 0.
Usually, sadly, it doesn't work that great and there's tons of artifacts left over. But if you're lucky it might just do what you want.

[mikehende]

Thanks but at $800, that's a super expensive "try" for only 60 seconds of audio. I am not seeing a demo which I can try.

[kidslow]

If you recorded directly from the TV headphone jack to the computer using a cable, how did background noise get introduced? Was the laptop mic also in pickup mode?

I'd start by taking a look at Waves Clarity Vx. A multiband expander would also allow you to potentially carve out the noise around the signal, but more manually intensive.

[BertKoor]

It's from a TV show. So the broadcast included the offending stuff already.

Perhaps google results of "sound track little house prairy" are better than what you can diy.

[vurt]

Thanks but at $800, that's a super expensive "try" for only 60 seconds of audio. I am not seeing a demo which I can try.

what you want to do, is no easy task. tantamount to audio magick, it will not be cheap.

berts idea is best, find the music elsewhere.

[kidslow]

It's from a TV show. So the broadcast included the offending stuff already.

Perhaps google results of "sound track little house prairy" are better than what you can diy.

Got it. Got it. Got it. I misunderstood the source of the noise, but now I get it. Yeah, if it's the soundtrack, I'd go looking online for a version of the music. Although depending on how clean it needs to end up and where the offending "noise" lands, a multiband expander might do the trick.

[mikehende]

No it's not a soundtrack. David Rose was the music conductor behind all music played in Michael Landon's shows back in the 70s and were never commercial recordings or made into records I should say. The music clips from 2 episodes of Little House was the background music behind whatever was going on.

[kidslow]

Mike, you can also try this. I've heard good things about it. https://moises.ai/products/moises-webapp/

[mikehende]

Thanks but I highly doubt that will do. A guy on the Audacity forum which is what I had used to record the audio posted this below, I thin it's vey acquire so nothing can be done:

"Not in Audacity, no. You can recognize music because you're a human. To Audacity, those are all just sounds and it can't tell which ones are music. This is the same problem people have when they record a concert from the audience. Extra noises."

So yes, I don't see any software being able to recognize the difference between a cow mooing or someone talking or a horse galloping. Once use use vocal kill or even instruments removal softwares to remove those types od sounds but that would be it I think. So, no worries, it is what it is, I had to look into it.

[kidslow]

If you want an automated solution, then yeah you may be s.o.l. I wouldn't expect Audacity to be the right tool for the job. If you're willing to roll up your sleeves, I reiterate the suggestion of a multiband expander. It will allow you to more surgically carve around the noise problems and almost definitely improve the resulting audio.

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/produc ... -reduction

Or download a demo of Waves Clarity Vx and see what it can do. You might be surprised.

There are limits, but combining a few different techniques, lightly used, is typically the best solution. Given that it's music and not dialogue, you actually have a bit more leeway with the blending in I'd think.

[astralprojection]

Thanks but at $800, that's a super expensive "try" for only 60 seconds of audio. I am not seeing a demo which I can try.

theres other algos out there that probably sound better than RX. just google it mate, and im sure you will find what you seek.
but will it work and will it be artifact free? probably not.

[mikehende]

Hey guys, this is a clip of it, maybe now you can advise on anything which might not have been mentioned before in this thread?

https://soundcloud.com/winston-henderso ... al_sharing

[BertKoor]

CoolEditPro (now Adobe Audition) had a feature called Spectral Editing. While viewing the spectrum you could edit out unwanted sounds. Manually. Lots of work...

[vurt]

im sorry, i have to know!!!
what's it for? don't you do dub stuff (guessing from the delay/looper requests) is this for samples?