[SOUND]How to filter certain things

[Recoil]

Hi there.

I do have some soundfiles, which contain sounds I'd like to have seperated; means, I have the wanted short location cut out and now 'standalone'. The problem is: there's often music or ambient sound in the background, mostly deep bass-sounds. So I now need to know how to filter out the deep sound to get the clear sound I want. I'm using Soundforge 6.0 right now. Suggestions?

 

[The Dark Elf]

filter out different frequency's, though you'll end up losing parts of the sound you want to keep, its unavoidable, try find a clean version of the sound instead, for the best chance of using it anyway.

 

[Recoil]

filter out different frequency's

Do you know how to do that in SF? I could probably figure it out somehow, but maybe you just know it?

try find a clean version of the sound instead, for the best chance of using it anyway.

Not that easy, because I need some unique sounds from movies :|

 

[The Dark Elf]

I don't use soundforge no sorry but it'll be in the manual, it will be able to do it im sure.

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Well if its sounds from movies, there's of course the whole can you legally use it anyway thing.. but apart from that, chances are you can likely get that sound elsewhere, a lot of studios use the same library of sounds, so you can often buy sounds just like they would and they'd be clean and how you need them.

 

[Recoil]

Ok, found it, just played around with the equalizer; thanks anyway

Legal thing: I just take really small things like a 'click' or so, I don't suppose that I'd need a license or so

 

[The Dark Elf]

well legally you probably would, but i doubt anyone is gonna chase you down over a second or so of audio, i think your probably safe hehehe

But you should consider the audio libraries, lots of good stuff to be found from all kinds of movies, you'd be surprised where the alien screech or the predator cloaking sounds have been used, some pretty unexpected places heh

 

[Recoil]

But you should consider the audio libraries, lots of good stuff to be found from all kinds of movies, you'd be surprised where the alien screech or the predator cloaking sounds have been used, some pretty unexpected places

Yup, I'll check some out, I know some filming-people, already saw some Library-CDs in their shelves

 

[The Dark Elf]

Worth getting, chances are you'll probably not need most of the sounds, but one day you can bet you'll suddenly need something and be glad you have it handy.

 

[Reaktor4]

If (say at a different time in the movie) you can find a relatively clean part of the music thats the same as the part messing up your sample, you can try inverting its waveform and mixing it with the sample. If done right this will cause the waveforms to cancel out leaving you with, mostly, the sound you want.
This way you dont have to filter out frequencies of the sound you want to keep, at least nowhere near as much as with eqing alone (usually some cleanup will be necessary).
Sorry if that sounds too complicated or is no use to you but i thought it was worth mentioning.

 

[Recoil]

Sorry if that sounds too complicated

No, not at all, sounds logical if my other method doesn't help anymore I can try that.