SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

danieldubb, could you give me some advice or pointers? In my edit I’m working on, i need to be able to remove as much original music from the film as possible in order to rescore. Especially in action scenes. I can do a certain amount of rebuiling of the sfx but i was hoping to retain as much of the original sfx as possible. I’ve played around with multiband compressers and limiters (in davinci resolve) with a bit of luck but i dont really know what I’m doing. Any advice on how to go about this? Any helpful youtube videos you may know of?

Hey man, totally so in my opinion u have two options, the first is that a lot of these original vfx sounds can be found online as individual “hits” or sounds. u could simply find the relative sfx and fit drop it in over your new score OR there is a few methods that could yield a decent result, the multiband compressor and limiters are not gonna do it, you are better off trying to either use an “EQ” and cut the sample as short and tight as possible and try to take out some frequancies around the specific sound “guns shots” sit in differenrt frequancy ranges than lets say a string or horn instrument from the score. or your other option is to use whats called a “gate” which basically grabs sounds that surpass a specific loudness and it will cut off anything below that volume level so it might work pretty well. i think ur first option will get the cleanest result tho. hope that helps!