Can you fix this?

Regnis

Regnis

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We have a conference coming up next week for all of our senior staff and directors.

Essentially we recorded a very important zoom conversation (between someone in the US and someone in Australia). The zoom conversation was recorded with OBS software. It involved two people plus our IT consultant who minimised their screen but kept an ear out incase of any technical difficulties. Unfortunately, that IT consultant left his microphone on while he spent the next hour and a half taking IT service calls. Another unfortunate circumstance is that he had not set the recording up to record individual audio streams and therefore we can not isolate and remove his constant background chatter throughout the recording. We have used AUDITION to try and remove his talking but it is very hard to isolate his chatter which is not so different from the two interviewees.

We are desperate for any help or direction. I have linked the MP3 recording below after exporting out of audition, and can provide the WAV file if needed. (there is an initial echo between the two interviewees but this gets better as it goes on)
*I do all the video and photography for our organisation but do not have the technical skills for a problem like this.
Thanks for any help in advance

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgmsxo8q8mn6ldy/2022-04-04 09-07-28.mp3?dl=0
 
Without listening to it what you describe would be difficult to impossible to fix no matter your skill level. I’ve added a usb external mic with a physical mute button with red light when muted to reduce the chance of this happening when I do zoom recordings.
 
Off-hand and without working on the file, the only software I can think of is SpectraLayers Pro and RX Advanced. and editing an audio.spectral graph has a steep learning curve.. though it may be a bit easier if one has previous experience with Photoshop or other advanced image editing software. If both voices are similar it may be impossible to attenuate the IT's voice. In any case it would be labor intensive and neither RX or SLP are low budget software.
 
Regnis said:
We have a conference coming up next week for all of our senior staff and directors.

Essentially we recorded a very important zoom conversation (between someone in the US and someone in Australia). The zoom conversation was recorded with OBS software. It involved two people plus our IT consultant who minimised their screen but kept an ear out incase of any technical difficulties. Unfortunately, that IT consultant left his microphone on while he spent the next hour and a half taking IT service calls. Another unfortunate circumstance is that he had not set the recording up to record individual audio streams and therefore we can not isolate and remove his constant background chatter throughout the recording. We have used AUDITION to try and remove his talking but it is very hard to isolate his chatter which is not so different from the two interviewees.

We are desperate for any help or direction. I have linked the MP3 recording below after exporting out of audition, and can provide the WAV file if needed. (there is an initial echo between the two interviewees but this gets better as it goes on)
*I do all the video and photography for our organisation but do not have the technical skills for a problem like this.
Thanks for any help in advance

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgmsxo8q8m...07-28.mp3?dl=0
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I can take a crack at it! I just listened to your drop box file and at least the presenters voices are louder than the background. I have RX 9 Advanced and lots of clean up experience. I would like to work off of the WAV. file. Contact me at bfbeaudry@comcast.net. I also direct messaged you.
 
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Regnis said:
We have a conference coming up next week for all of our senior staff and directors.

Essentially we recorded a very important zoom conversation (between someone in the US and someone in Australia). The zoom conversation was recorded with OBS software. It involved two people plus our IT consultant who minimised their screen but kept an ear out incase of any technical difficulties. Unfortunately, that IT consultant left his microphone on while he spent the next hour and a half taking IT service calls. Another unfortunate circumstance is that he had not set the recording up to record individual audio streams and therefore we can not isolate and remove his constant background chatter throughout the recording. We have used AUDITION to try and remove his talking but it is very hard to isolate his chatter which is not so different from the two interviewees.

We are desperate for any help or direction. I have linked the MP3 recording below after exporting out of audition, and can provide the WAV file if needed. (there is an initial echo between the two interviewees but this gets better as it goes on)
*I do all the video and photography for our organisation but do not have the technical skills for a problem like this.
Thanks for any help in advance

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgmsxo8q8mn6ldy/2022-04-04 09-07-28.mp3?dl=0
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I was trying to download the file from Dropbox to see what I could do with the new software from CEDAR, but it doesn't download here.
 
Regnis said:
berniebeaudry Just want to give a special shout out to Bernie who did a superb job with this. Saved it and allowed us to present it to a large conference audience.
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Thank you! I appreciate the appreciation! A note to other RX users. This file was an hour and a half long. I found out later that Izotope doesn't recommend working on files in the stand alone advanced version longer than thirty minutes. As I worked the rendering got slower and slower. It was eventually taking up to 8 seconds to render even for the smallest edit. You can imagine how that slowed things down. There was a deadline so I just kept plowing ahead. I contacted Izotope after I was done as I'd never seen that behavior before. I could have easily put the file into Pro Tools and used connect, or broken the file up into two or three reels. Always something new to learn!
 
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