Topic: Fixing a once off talker. Ideas?

[shadowfax1007]

I've got an old recording of mine which overall I love - except for one track which almost ruins the listening experience for me.
At the 3:14 mark you here a drunk girl talking nearby to me, picked up strongly on the right channel.

I've experimented several times over the years with various audio tools, but I've never really been able to reduce it in a way that doesn't harm the experience too much. I'm kind of hoping some more seasoned editing veterans might be able to have a quick look at this one and make some suggestions for me? Please.
Alternatively I've got RX10 if people have settings/tools to suggest trying.

I've posted a link to the MP3 of the track itself, but I have the whole gig in it's original WAV format if the edit is required overall.


https://we.tl/t-It3luggwy4

Thanks!

[Gordon]

Look at it in RX and figure out what her voice looks like (easy to spot).  Use the brush tool or lasso then spectral repair attenuate.  This was a quick attempt to tone it down.  It could be done better but you get the idea....


https://we.tl/t-SizfXMKKCb

[breakonthru]

Its REALLY hard to get conversation out of a recording as it’s not sharp and sudden and it’s in the same frequency range as the music

When it’s hard on one channel the first thing I do is subtly swap channels via long fades. The image will collapse into mono and be noticeable on headphones but sometimes not noticeable at all when played back on speakers

Perhaps some combination of the above, where at first you try to reduce it on the one channel as much as possible, and then swap the channels as little as possible to try to maintain a little bit of image, and use the slight channel swap to partially cover up the manual work you did to remove the tower, which is not without consequences to the rest of the recording