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How to simulate distance with lavalier mic in post-processing
I am recording a vlog (Basically a travel video while e.g. hiking) where me and the other person are both speaking into their own lavalier mic (DJI Mic; seperated on the left and right channel). One ...
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How feasible is it to remove an unwanted sound from a voice clip?
I'd like to remove the "growl" and the robotic voice saying "nutrient" in this clip. Is it doable considering I have no experience with editing audio?
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How can I merge two sound clips *without* crossfade to achieve a seamless transition?
My audio editor doesn't support crossfade for some reason. Can I still merge two audio clips in it without having that annoying "stitching sound" at the seam of the two tracks? Thanks
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble
Doing sound design for an explainer, with lots of character animation.
I have kids and adults that needs to mumble. It's a serious subject, so it can't be too cartoony.
I have some speaks and yells ...
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Is there a tool to synchronize similar audio files running at different speeds, and at different offsets?
I am working on a project in which I need to synchronize some audio files, where the audio runs at different speeds and offsets.
To give a little context, I have two versions of an album, one being ...
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Remove digital artifacts (clicking sound) from read errors on a CD-r
There is good software and a lot of information on how to repair clicks and pops on audio sourced from vinyl.
When audio is burned to a CD-r playing the disc can produce a clicking sound. The error ...
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Automatically split audio before and after music
I have an audio file of a person answering several questions. Between each answer, there are seven seconds of music before the person starts to speak again. The audio is originally from a video and ...
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Do I need an external sound card for quality sound design during a podcast edit?
I record in the field with a portable Zoom recorder, so I don't need an audio interface to plug any mics into. I'm just wondering if when I'm editing a podcast with lots of scenes and sound, if I need ...
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Setting up specs for podcast edit
What is everything you consider when setting up the specs in your DAW to edit a brand new podcast?
(Especially now you'll have recordings in different specs... how do you decide what to make the full ...
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How to improve the audio quality in my YouTube videos?
So, I'm a beginner in creating YouTube videos. So far, I've posted 9 videos on my YouTube channel. The videos consists of poems and comedy vines (in Hindi). I'm getting good response from the viewers ...
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How is a hiss removed "under the hood"?
What I mean is, not which app/option/button to use to remove a hissing sound, but how does the tool one uses to remove the hiss do that. Does it remove every low-volume noise? Does it break the sound ...
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Converting Notes to CC Values in Digital Performer
I am fairly new to Digital Performer and have been given a midi stream and an Audio Unit (AU) instrument. Unfortunately, the midi stream was made when the instrument used notes as control codes to ...
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Dialogue between 2 or more people
I'm a film editing student and I was wondering whether it is a common practice to always aim the boom microphone back and forth between the two (or more) people when their lines come up, even if a ...
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Cancel the audio in one file from another
I made a two-sided recording of an interview conducted via VOIP (one recording of my input and one of the interviewee's input). The interviewee wasn't wearing a headset, so my audio comes through on ...
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How to remove a background song mixed with another?
I have a mp3 file which contains the master song but somehow some other is also playing alongside. Main song is little louder than the background one.
I tried audacity it doesn't show 2 tracks where ...
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Is it possible to cut an mp3 file without re-encoding it?
I have some mp3 files that need to be cut in segments (one mp3 file for the start, one separate mp3 file for the middle, and another mp3 file for the end). It can be easily done in any DAW, but DAWs ...
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How to decrease the volume of an audio file in Adobe Animate 2019?
I'm editing an audio file manually, decreasing its volume, and then I'm importing it to Adobe Animate 2019. But the volume of the file never changes in Animate. It doesn't matter what software I use ...
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how do I make a song sound like its another song
A while back I saw a song edit on twitter I sparked an interest with and I wanna see if I can do it myself. Anyway how and what program I can achieve this with?
https://twitter.com/Waltmann13/status/...
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Selection Shortcut for Adobe Audition
I hope it is the right place to ask an Adobe Audition specific question.
I'm trying to get audio clips from a large audio file.
When I play and pause a sound in Adobe Audition's Editor using Space, ...
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Is it legitimate to use a low pass filter on short segments of audio around stitch between two amplitude signals to remove noise?
I am trying to design a pipeline that will repeat a certain segment of audio N times (for instance, for 10s of input, repeat the segment from 3s to 5s four times). This generates unwanted high ...
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Is there a software that allows cutting while recording?
While recording a lecture, there are some pauses that are longer than 2 seconds or "ums" and "errs" that I would like to remove but have the sound continue recording. Purely to save time.
At the ...
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Extracting common waveform from two clips
If one has an instrumental and non-instrumental version of a song, the vocals can be extracted by inverting the polarity of one of the sources, since the common audio cancels out.
However, what if my ...
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Is it possible to extract speech from an audio with noises at the same/higher level than the speech using noise cancelation/source separation
I’m trying to extract speech from some videos which have noises at the same or higher level than the voice of the speaker. For instance listen from linked point in this video.
Is it possible to ...
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How to create voice distortion like this amazing TED Talk
In "Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality," Anil Seth's demo of the brain being able to understand a completely distorted audio clip was amazing.
(Just watch 60 seconds from this point ...
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How do I amplify a WAV file without adding distortion?
I have a wav file that the subject is whispering in, how do I amplify without distortion? I have tried using Audacity, made it slightly better but audio still too low.
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When you Know it Needs Something Else
When you're jamming and have created a sound that you think would be really good if only you combined it with another layer or two, but you're not sure what it needs, what do you do?
I've had this ...
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How do I make 2 voices in ONE audacity track sound about the same volume?
This is probably really simple for you. There are 2 people speaking in my new podcast, but one sounds louder than the other. How do I make it so that they sound about the same volume? I recorded them ...
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For voice editing, should I change the cutoff frequency with each note pitch?
I'm trying to remove the spaniard accent in a short phrase:
Original
Edited
It turns out that removing the soft growling sound at the beginning of the word gitano, and using a low pass filter for ...
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Which DAW can provide editing of multiple MIDI channel tracks open simultaneously?
There is already a very similar question BUT it is not the same as my question, hence the reason for my question:
Which DAW can handle simultaneous editing of MIDI channels / instruments per tracks?
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Options for unmixing sounds (source separation)?
Which solutions (standalone or plugins) exist for unmixing/de-mixing sources?
Lets say I have a track with acoustic guitar and string synth in mono, and I want each source separated. Which tools ...
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Is there a standard way to organize audio tracks?
Usually, I order my audio tracks like this:
Dialogs
FX
BG
Music
How do you do it? Is there some kind of standard to follow?
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How to split a recording to music and talking parts
I have recordings of a radio show that I'd like to listen to later.
But I'd like to listen only to the music parts.
Sometimes there are interviews or discussions without background musik I'd like to ...
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Does lossy to lossless make sense in this case?
So, from my understanding audio lossy to lossless conversion is a no no. However, what if I want to edit a lossy file (e.g. change tempo, make cuts etc) and I don't want to lose quality by converting ...
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How is digital audio defined?
I want to make a voice changer, found the description of some effects, but I don't exactly understand what the digital audio looks like.
How much information can I get from different audio formats, ...
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Microphone was too close, how to fix?
I have a six-minute audio recording that a child put a lot of time and effort into, six months ago, so re-recording is not an option. Everything is clear and understandable, but it sounds a bit ...
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Is there any way to remove foley from dialogue?
I have a single wav file that has both dialogue and computer keys clicking at the same time, is there any way to do an FFT or noise filtering to just isolate the dialogue?
Thanks
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How to record the audio of one person's reaction to another person's line without overlapping audio?
I was told that it was best to record audio separately for every talent so that it would be easier during audio post if I want to increase the gain for one of the tracks etc.
So if I only have a ...
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Easy way to remove spikes for the audio of a video file?
Is there an easy way to remove spikes in volume (coming for example from a feedback loop when recording) from the audio of a video file?
I have this video for example which had problems during the ...
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Automating soundcheck: Can I get volume of an instrument from a live band audio GIVEN that I recorded the live mic input?
Let's say, during a live performance I save the mic input of every instrument and vocals. I also record the speaker output from the crowd.
Can I extract the volumes of the individual instruments ...
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Split Audio File Into Seperate Tracks?
To start, I know very little about audio manipulation, other than splitting a track into smaller parts I haven't done much, so and ELI5 answer would be preferred. I have an audio file, and I want to ...
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What is the current state of the art in source separation? What tools are available?
I've seen a few questions around there at ultimately seem to be asking for software that does source separation, which refers to techniques for separating mixed-down audio into some approximation of ...
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How to create these punch SFX?
Punch Sample
Hi all, the attached link is a clip extracted from Captain America Blu-ray. That is the first fight scene, and all the punch SFX are placed at Center channel only, there is no LFE. The ...
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How to remove hiss in Adobe Audition?
How can I remove hiss in a recording (due to too-low level preamp)?
This was a live recording that I took from the mixing board on a Tascam, at 24-bit 96kHz recording. It has the direct input from ...
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How can layers of sound be distinguished, and therefore separated?
Let's say I have a file like WAV. It has singing and background music.
What if one was to separate the background music from the background music, if this is even possible? If it possible, and it is ...
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Removing vocals using multiple versions of the same song
I have 4 tracks that are exactly the same, except that each one has vocals in a different language. I know how to remove center-panned vocals, but is there any way to remove them that takes advantage ...
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Can't remove vocal from a specific song
I tried a lot of way to remove the vocal from this song with audacity, but without any good results...
I'm very new to this and perhaps not doing it right, but I think it may be the case of the song ...
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Where can I find an Audio project file from feature film as an example?
I'm an independent filmmaker, and I'm trying to improve my sound design skills for my next project. Have any of you come across a post or a website where a sound designer has uploaded an audio project ...
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Why can't I isolate center-panned audio using inverse phase cancelling?
In Audacity, you can split a stereo song to mono and invert the phase to remove center-panned audio (usually vocals).
Can someone explain why inverting the result and adding the original (in mono) ...
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How to split audio in dry and wet audio files if I have the dry version
Say I have the same vocal on 2 tracks one dry and one harmonized with Zplane veilklang 2 CM (the edition of Computer Music). I want to procces the main vocal differently from the harmonized copies of ...
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Need help for removing cloth rustle
Recently I'm doing dialogue premix for a feature. Unfortunately the recorded location sound are in poor quality. The boom track is useless, off-axis and reverby. Only the LAV mic track can be used. ...
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