Topic: Fixing a once off talker. Ideas?

[robgronotte]

Your old WeT link is dead and I don't see a new one.

Apologies - not sure what happened with my last comment.
https://we.tl/t-FTlMnRHAsW

Try that

I checked them out.  Your fixed sample is longer than the original sample but I assume the problem is somewhere in the fixed part?  If so, that's really good, I can't even tell where the original problem spot was.  I wouldn't be able to do a better job than you did.

[shadowfax1007]

Your old WeT link is dead and I don't see a new one.

Apologies - not sure what happened with my last comment.
https://we.tl/t-FTlMnRHAsW

Try that

Cheers! Yeah the fixed sample is a bit longer, I did it as I was doing some blind testing of my edits. Wanted to see if I could pick it out or not based on different versions.

I checked them out.  Your fixed sample is longer than the original sample but I assume the problem is somewhere in the fixed part?  If so, that's really good, I can't even tell where the original problem spot was.  I wouldn't be able to do a better job than you did.

[goodcooker]

I have a recent recording I'm going to try this on. It's an instrumental ensemble - Hammond organ, guitar, bass, drums and sax - that the crowd in the tiny room just yakked really loud the whole time.

I hope to isolate the talking using the separate vocal stems method and discard as much of the conversation as I can.

Thanks for your write up about how you accomplished your edits.

EDIT - I took a short clip of the show from right at the beginning where the talking is especially bad and ran it through UVR5. Here's a clip of the results  https://soundcloud.com/roger-cox-7/robertwalter2024-05-03uvrcomp?si=822ae8d008194275ae17808e98ee4bcb&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.

0-10 sec = raw track
10-20 sec = just removed noise (vocal track)
20-30 sec = just resulting music (instrumental track)
30-40 sec = raw track again to compare

It's better but it's not a silver bullet for this kind of thing. It definitely removed the worst of the talking and didn't degrade the music all that much. If you listen closely to the removed voices only you can hear a little of the organ that got removed too.