Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an audio
signal.
Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal or
completely different approach?
Method of removing voice from music
Started by ●May 26, 2009
Reply by ●May 27, 20092009-05-27
have a look at this
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib527
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:02 AM, jr_vignesh wrote:
> Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an audio
> signal.
>
> Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal or
> completely different approach?
>
>
>
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Regards
Shamail
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib527
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:02 AM, jr_vignesh wrote:
> Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an audio
> signal.
>
> Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal or
> completely different approach?
>
>
>
--
Regards
Shamail
Reply by ●May 27, 20092009-05-27
I would imagine you could remove some aspects of the voice signal
through band reject filters. By far the best way, if you have access to
the vocal track or acapella is to to phase invert the vocal, and then
mix with the original. This results in a completely clean and full range
instrumental track - but this method is only useful if you have the
vocal track.
Maybe some kind of formant reject? Sorry if that was useless!
Tom.
jr_vignesh wrote:
> Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an
> audio signal.
>
> Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal
> or completely different approach?
through band reject filters. By far the best way, if you have access to
the vocal track or acapella is to to phase invert the vocal, and then
mix with the original. This results in a completely clean and full range
instrumental track - but this method is only useful if you have the
vocal track.
Maybe some kind of formant reject? Sorry if that was useless!
Tom.
jr_vignesh wrote:
> Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an
> audio signal.
>
> Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal
> or completely different approach?
Reply by ●May 27, 20092009-05-27
JR-
> > Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an
> > audio signal.
> >
> > Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal
> > or completely different approach?
>
> I would imagine you could remove some aspects of the voice signal
> through band reject filters. By far the best way, if you have access to
> the vocal track or acapella is to to phase invert the vocal, and then
> mix with the original. This results in a completely clean and full range
> instrumental track - but this method is only useful if you have the
> vocal track.
>
> Maybe some kind of formant reject? Sorry if that was useless!
If you don't have the original vocal signal, then filtering is mostly useless --
frequency overlap between lead vocal and music content will be in many cases
indistinguishable. One common technique in the music / performing arts business is
to work with stereo recordings -- the assumption is the lead vocal was recorded in
the middle, most instrumentals and backup vocals are on one side or the other, so L/R
channels can be subtracted to reduce the lead vocal. You might try searching Google
for 'lead vocal reduction'.
I think some of the popular music editing software, such as CoolEdit, GoldWave, and
YoGen, include vocal reduction algorithms based on this method. I've not seen
inexpensive off-the-shelf that purports to reduce lead vocal on a mono recording.
Such an algorithm would be adaptive and substantially more complex. For that you
might search professional products, such as Superscope Technologies.
-Jeff
> > Anybody please tell me by what means, a voice can be removed from an
> > audio signal.
> >
> > Is this just an application of band pass filter on the actual signal
> > or completely different approach?
>
> I would imagine you could remove some aspects of the voice signal
> through band reject filters. By far the best way, if you have access to
> the vocal track or acapella is to to phase invert the vocal, and then
> mix with the original. This results in a completely clean and full range
> instrumental track - but this method is only useful if you have the
> vocal track.
>
> Maybe some kind of formant reject? Sorry if that was useless!
If you don't have the original vocal signal, then filtering is mostly useless --
frequency overlap between lead vocal and music content will be in many cases
indistinguishable. One common technique in the music / performing arts business is
to work with stereo recordings -- the assumption is the lead vocal was recorded in
the middle, most instrumentals and backup vocals are on one side or the other, so L/R
channels can be subtracted to reduce the lead vocal. You might try searching Google
for 'lead vocal reduction'.
I think some of the popular music editing software, such as CoolEdit, GoldWave, and
YoGen, include vocal reduction algorithms based on this method. I've not seen
inexpensive off-the-shelf that purports to reduce lead vocal on a mono recording.
Such an algorithm would be adaptive and substantially more complex. For that you
might search professional products, such as Superscope Technologies.
-Jeff
