Bringing vocal music to foreground -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Bringing vocal music to foreground Posted by: Varada Date:5/29/2002 1:48:40 PM I have a selection of old music recordings which is a blend of vocal, violin and drums. In these the vocal music is kind of in the background. Can I use Sound Forge (4.5) to just enhance the vocal part of it? Thanks
Subject:RE: Bringing vocal music to foreground Reply by: Chienworks Date:5/29/2002 2:45:58 PM Probably the best you can do is use an EQ curve. Most vocals tend to be in the 200Hz to 2KHz range. You can boost these frequencies while cutting back below and above this range. This will help ... some ... but not much, and will be very dependant on the source material.
Subject:RE: Bringing vocal music to foreground Reply by: MJhig Date:5/29/2002 6:06:23 PM You can also try using a limiter (Wave Hammer's or Track compressor's limiters)to squash the louder voices. I have the reverse problem, the guitar player/singer worked the knobs on the mixer on my last gig. I kept hearing from muscicians in the audience at break times "You guys are good players but your sound sucks". Then to my horror when I finally forced him to record us out of the board all you can hear is... Guess what? Yep, vocals and guitar! All my accoustic drums are miced pluss I use electrics and send him two outs submixed from my Mackie 1604 to two channels in his 1604 so all he had to worry about for drums is volume! The keys were a similar feed. Sorry, It still annoys me to the bone. Anyway using the limiter you should be able to lower the threshold so the loudest voices are limited in turn making the softer voices louder in the mix. This actually worked really well for me. Since I was putting "garbage" in I expected "garbage" out, or was at least hoping for "doesn't suck" out. The results were much better than I expected when you concider the vocals and guitar were averaging 25 db louder than the drums and keys. MJ

Subject:Bringing vocal music to foreground

Posted by: Varada

Date:5/29/2002 1:48:40 PM

I have a selection of old music recordings which is a blend of vocal, violin and drums. In these the vocal music is kind of in the background. Can I use Sound Forge (4.5) to just enhance the vocal part of it?

Thanks

Subject:RE: Bringing vocal music to foreground

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:5/29/2002 2:45:58 PM

Probably the best you can do is use an EQ curve. Most vocals tend to be in the 200Hz to 2KHz range. You can boost these frequencies while cutting back below and above this range. This will help ... some ... but not much, and will be very dependant on the source material.

Subject:RE: Bringing vocal music to foreground

Reply by: MJhig

Date:5/29/2002 6:06:23 PM

You can also try using a limiter (Wave Hammer's or Track compressor's limiters)to squash the louder voices.

I have the reverse problem, the guitar player/singer worked the knobs on the mixer on my last gig. I kept hearing from muscicians in the audience at break times "You guys are good players but your sound sucks". Then to my horror when I finally forced him to record us out of the board all you can hear is... Guess what? Yep, vocals and guitar!

All my accoustic drums are miced pluss I use electrics and send him two outs submixed from my Mackie 1604 to two channels in his 1604 so all he had to worry about for drums is volume! The keys were a similar feed.

Sorry, It still annoys me to the bone. Anyway using the limiter you should be able to lower the threshold so the loudest voices are limited in turn making the softer voices louder in the mix. This actually worked really well for me. Since I was putting "garbage" in I expected "garbage" out, or was at least hoping for "doesn't suck" out. The results were much better than I expected when you concider the vocals and guitar were averaging 25 db louder than the drums and keys.

MJ