Removing lyrics from audio

Is it possible to remove the lyrics, or voice, from a song track?
Thanks for your help.
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I'm a noob at Soundbooth and I'm hoping it will help resolve a problem. I shot a video and I think the audio (voice recording) is too low. While editing in Premiere I pulled the audio up in volume and it sounded acceptable... but when burned to DVD there is a hiss. Is there anything I can do with Soundbooth to fix the volume and eliminate the hiss. The simpler the explaination the better. Thanks!

re 1 & 3- there's a description of how to do this in the STP manual. Just look under the help section and it'll be there. Just read it this weekend and got it to work for me and believe me, I'm not the shapest knife in the drawer. One bit of advice, make an extra sequence before you export to STP so you don't mess up your original audio.
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I have audio recorded in a church which sounds great apart from the echo on it. Im at a loss as to which filter, if any will help remove it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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You may be able to reduce the level of echo by using a noise gate; the results will depend upon the nature and level of echo and also other background noise, but some reduction may be possible. Don't be too agreesive in the setting of noise reduction otherwise it will be very obvious that you are gating the sound and you will end up hearing the background sound coming and going as quite often heard on less well processed movies and tv productions.

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Lost the audio tracks from the mixer, so
all I have is the audio from the RED camera. There is a constant hum.
I tried the DeHummer tool at different settings, no luck.
All I have is Premiere CS5, no other tools like Audition. Is there a way to remove the hum
since it is constant? The audio files are *.mov for some reason, so Audacity didn't help either. Of all the scenes that could get screwed up, its the one with my five year old in it! UGH!!!!!
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Stuart

Stuart,
Much will depend on the frequency range of the hum and on the frequency range of the Audio that you wish to preserve. This ARTICLE will give you some tips.
While I use Audition, SoundBooth (do you have that program, as it's included in most Adobe suites?) should be able to help, as can the great, little free Audacity.
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I remove lyrics from iTunes, but they still show up in my iPhone :(

So I download a song and it came with some unwanted text. I clicked on the song, went to file>get info, clicked on the lyrics tab, and removed the text. Then I synced my iPhone. However, the unwanted text still show up in my iPhone. What can I do to get rid of it?

This is the lyrics I have on the computer.
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I know about these options:
Audio Enhancements - Equalization - Hum Reduction.
Audio Enhancements - Audio Analysis - Hum Reduction.
I may not be using these options right, but they can't help me.
I know also that I can use the Graphic Equalizer, but I do not know which graph to adjust to remove the hum. Is there a role of thumb? Any YouTube tutorials anyone know? Plugins?

The hum is my freezer in the background But it is not loud. I just don't like that I can tell that one voice clip ends and one starts because of the background. I have key frames fading start and end of each voice clip, which helps, but isn't there anything else I can do?
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As You might guess - this is tough and often futile. AND I'm much of a paper and clip / trial and error kind of person.
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I cut some audio, but there's a pop where the person is ending one word and about to begin the next. What's the logical way of dealing with this issue?
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Hi. Well I guess the "logical" solution is to re-cut the voice over. If that's not possible, zoom in on the waveform of the audio track and see where exactly the pop occurs. If it is between syllables you need to complete and start the words adjacent to the pop, hooray. Just highlight the pop-only waveforms and delete them. If, however, the pop (assuming it was caused by an explosion of air onto the mic) occurs when the speaker pronounces a "p" or another consonant, you can try reducung the lower frequencies with the audio EQ filter--for just that spot -- until the loud explosive fequencies are minimized. Anyway, whatever frequency range the pop is happenning in can be minimized by adjusting the EQ of that moment.
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Delete lyrics from all tracks at once?

Hi,
I tried a program that automatically gets lyrics for all my songs but I just realized most of them are wrong. How do remove lyrics all at once from all my songs without going one by one?
Thanks for reading.

That's easy with a simple script. Save the text below in a file with extension ".vbs", then double-click to run it. It will remove the lyrics from EVERY track in your iTunes Library.
You should really backup your iTunes Library before running this, just in case.
You can also download the script here (right-click and select "save as"):
http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/itunesremovelyrics.vbs
' # itunesremovelyrics.vbs
' # This will find all songs in iTunes with lyrics and delete the lyrics
' # written by: Robert Jacobson (http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/index.html)
' # Last Updated: 2009 Nov 17
' # Version 1.0
' # This script is GPL v2. see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
' # or the end of this script
' # 1.0 Script created, see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2237024
Option Explicit
Dim iTunesApp ' iTunes.Application object used to access the iTunes application.
Dim tracks ' The tracks collection object of the Library object.
Dim songLyrics ' The track's lyrics
Dim m ' A counter variable.
Dim answer ' MsgBox result
Dim songName
Dim artist
Dim track
Dim numtracks
DIM use_windows
'detect CSCRIPT context & use InputLine
IF Instr(lcase(wscript.FullName), "cscript")>0 THEN
use_windows = 0
ELSE 'detect WSCRIPT context & use native InputBox
use_windows = 1
END IF
Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application.1")
Set tracks = iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist.Tracks
numtracks = tracks.Count
If use_windows = 0 Then
WScript.Echo "WARNING! This will remove the lyrics from ALL tracks"
WScript.Echo "in your Library!!!! Are you sure??"
WScript.Echo "Type YES to continue"
answer=WScript.StdIn.ReadLine
if ( answer "YES" ) Then
Wscript.Echo "Exiting, no changes made"
WScript.Quit
End If
Else
answer=MsgBox("WARNING! This will remove the lyrics from ALL tracks" & Chr(10) & "in your Library!!!", 1, "WARNING")
if ( answer = 2) Then
WScript.Echo "Exiting, no changes made"
Wscript.Quit
End If
End If
For m = numtracks to 1 step -1
Set track = tracks.Item(m)
If track.Kind = 1 Then
songName = track.Name
artist = track.Artist
songLyrics = track.Lyrics
' If the song has Lyrics ...
if Len(songLyrics) > 0 Then
If use_windows = 0 Then
Wscript.Echo chr(9) & "Removing lyrics from song: " & m & ": " & songName & " by " & artist
End If
' delete the lyrics
track.Lyrics = ""
end if
End If
Next
Wscript.Echo "Done"

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How to remove noise from a recorded audio file.

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And welcome to the Final Cut Express forum.
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