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Post #667968

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cuthbert84
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Resource Thread: Isolating Music and Voices in Star Wars
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29-Oct-2013, 3:47 AM

Audio Post guy here.  You are correct in theory, but even if the CD is the same take that was used in the films, different EQ settings, CD mastering, even the compression of an ac3 file will render the inverting phase experiment useless, I'm sorry to say.  That needs to be sample accurate to work.  Sometimes when the music is really low and bass heavy in a scene you can just EQ it out, but for the hologram scene, the notes live right in the vocal range.  

I checked the Star Wars soundboard, but it doesn't have the lines you want. It does have tons of other lines though, in case that might help for another scene.

http://starwars.com/play/online-activities/soundboards/#/?theme=06

P.S.  Also a good idea on stealing the dialogue from the center channel.  I did just the opposite trick when I stole the sail barge music from Jedi for the isomix track.  

P.P.S.  How about if you summed the music from the stereo Left Right channels to a mono track, (which should be dialogue free) inverted the phase on THAT and played it with the center channel? Worth a shot?  It probably won't eliminate the music 100% but it might dip it enough so that if you had other music playing it could mask it. 

UPDATE:  I decided to try that trick.  Didn't work at all.