[linux-audio-user] Filtering out sounds?

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:25:03PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 3/9/07, terrence at terrencevak.net <terrence at terrencevak.net> wrote:
> >        This might sound like a *really* odd question, but here goes.  I'm
> >also looking for a strictly command-line program.  I have some old tapes
> >that I'm converting to MP3s so I can get rid of the old cassettes.  One of
> >these is a tape on which I can't stand the sound of my own voice.  If such
> >a program exists, I'd love to be able to feed my voice into the program
> >and then have it filtered out, or at least obscured from, the recording.
> >Am I shooting at the moon or can this be done?
> 
> I'm sure it's possible to get close - I think this is what karaoke
> machines do.  No idea how though.

I thought they relied on the vocal being panned center and did some
trick with phase inverting to cancel it out ... but, somehow that sounds
too simple.

-Eric Rz.