Welcome!Log InCreate A New ProfileMessage ListNew TopicPrint View Hi, What would be the most effective method for removing chirping birds from my dialog track? I've identified they are primarily from 3.5 kHz to 15 kHz and there's heaps of them. I've used the 31 track graphics eq to drop the gain on those frequencies all the way, but then the dialog sounds ugly. Are there other filters that would work better?? Thank you The sound of birds shares a lot of the same frequencies as the human voice. To be honest there isn't much you will be able to do about this. One thing you can try is to send your audio to Soundtrack Pro and use the Noise Reduction function to eliminate as much of the chirping as possible. But you will never get rid of it completely without distroying the dialog. Here's the method: R-click the dialog track in FCP and select Send to > Soundtrack Pro Audio File project. The dialog wil open in STP. Once the dialog track is in STP, zoom in on the timeline and find a spot in the audio where you only have the chirping. Select that part of the audio by dragging in the waveform. Now choose Process > Noise Reduction > Set Noise Print The press CMD + A to select the entire audio track and choose Process > Noise Reduction > Reduce Noise A small window will open. Play the audio and while it plays tweak Noise Treshold and Reduction until you achieve the best possible result. Then click Apply and save your STP file. Switch back to FCP and the changes will be audible inside your FCP project. Best wishes, Ronny As the saying goes, prevention is better than the cure. However if it's there it's there, so if it were me I would fix it in Soundtrack. I would start afresh without all the previously applied filters then open the offending clip in Soundtrack. Using the spectrum editor you will be able to see the 'Tweets' and erase them without touching the dialogue. Sounds like you are in for a long night. Best wishes. Ronny, XGTV - Thanks for this info! I'm working on another issue so I won't get to this for a day or so. I'll report back my results then.. Josh Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum. |
At some point during your audio production adventures you may find yourself needing to remove vocals from a song.
On Premiere Pro, first check the waveform of your audio track, to see if there are strange peaks in the amplitude, if you don't have any strange spikes, use the Audio Gain option or the Essential Sound panel to normalize the audio. If you have strange spikes, bring the audio into the timeline, take a small section of 2030 seconds of that audio. SEND FOR REPAIR: Selected clips are sent to the RX 6 Audio Editor for repair, and you can send them back to your host from the RX Audio Editor. More Information For more information on using RX Connect in different hosts, please refer to the following sections, or refer to the knowledgebase for a more detailed list. Produce video projects faster now that you can search, preview, and license stock music right inside Premiere Pro. Intelligent search with fast results Adobe Stock offers a simple interface along with advanced filtering options to help you find the perfect royalty-free music in minutes. Learn Audio-in-premiere skills by watching tutorial videos about Dorico Basics: Notation Tools and Techniques, Pigments 3: The Video Manual, Physical Modeling Explored, Creating Titles and 3D Effects, Luna 101 - Luna Absolute Beginner's Guide, & more. If the audio is really really noisy I'll resort to Izotope Rx Advanced. @StormyKnight Vegas can open audio events in Sound Forge or any other editor like Audacity. You define your preferred editor in Preferences and then just right click an event and select Open in Audio Editor.
This could be for a variety of reasons:
- You have a very old song where the mixes of music and vocals are not available.
- You have created a song and lost original files (ouch!)
- You’d really like to get your hands on the instrumental.
Regardless of the impetus, before manipulating – and in some cases before using – any song, you need to first get the permission from the publisher of the song. I want to make this very clear – it is illegal to make any manipulation to somebody’s work – without their permission.
Music Rights
In order to use published music for a commercial gain – for instance, in a podcast, YouTube video, or social media post – you need to obtain the publisher’s permission. While several seconds of a song may be acceptable under “fair use,” editing a piece of music is a whole new ask. Copyright infringement is serious business.
You need to get permission, unless you either:
- Wrote and performed the piece of music yourself
- Contracted someone to write it (and have the documentation to prove it)
- Purchased the right to use and edit a musical piece (and have the documentation to prove it)
Be sure to cover your backside.
How to Remove Vocals From a Song
There are several free and paid tools to use to remove vocals.
The Best: iZotope RX
iZotope RX is not a free tool, but it’s the best – and easiest – resource for removing vocals. Simply use the Music Rebalance tool.
Click on Music Rebalance on the right hand menu, and you see four faders: Voice, Bass, Percussion, and Other.
Pull down the Voice fader, and you will eliminate the voice entirely.
Preview, Render, and it’s ready to go.
Isolate Vocals: To keep the voice and remove everything else, simply pull the Voice back up and pull down the Bass, Percussion, and Other.
Remove Vocals from a Song Using Audacity
Audacity is an extremely popular free tool for PC, Mac, and Linux users. Plus, it made it very simple to remove vocals from a song.
Click and drag over the section where you want to remove the vocals.
Go to Effect in the top menu, and scroll down to select Vocal Reduction and Isolation. Next, in the top dropdown, select the Remove Vocals preset.
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Preview to check it out, and then click okay.
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Note: You can play with the settings, but the defaults work pretty well.
Isolate Vocals in Audacity
To remove vocals in Audacity, click and drag over a little bit of the music.
Go to Effect in the top menu, and scroll down to Noise Reduction. Click to get the Noise Profile of that clip of music. Next, double-click the audio to select everything. Now, go back into the Effect menu and select Noise Reduction. Click preview.
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Although the music has been removed, the vocals do not sound that good. Noise reduction took the frequencies out, so you need to put some back in and change the sensitivity. Change Noise Reduction to 26 and increase frequency smoothing, and you should be good to go.
Isolate Vocals Using Adobe Audition
Adobe Audition offers an easy, though more advanced way to remove vocals from songs.
Go to Effects in the top menu, scroll down to Stereo Imagery, and select Central Channel Extractor. (The vocals live in the Center Channel of an audio recording, so if you move the Center Channel Level up or down, it will increase of decrease the vocals.)
Go to presets, scroll down, and click on Vocal Remove.
If you want to tweak it, and you probably do, go to the Frequency Range Area. That’s where you can change the bass and treble cutoffs.
Increase the Bass Frequency and you’ll hear the bass line of the vocals come back in. The quality will be better, but you need to then bring the Bass Frequency down until you can no longer hear the vocals. Do the same thing with the Treble Frequency. Bring it all the way down to start, and the steadily increase the Treble Frequency until you can’t hear the vocals.
Isolate Vocals: To remove the music and keep the vocals, do the opposite process as above. Fade down the Side Channel Levels and fade up the Center Channel Levels. Note: There are much cleaner ways to get acapellas than by using this tool.
Final Thoughts
There is one other way to remove vocals from a song. Ask the artist of producer for a clean copy of the music.
If that’s not an option, you have plenty of alternative tools from no cost to high end. No matter what the method, when removing vocals from a song for your podcast, cover your bases. Get permission to avoid future copyright headaches.
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What do you think? Which tool do you use for removing vocals? Please share in the comments.