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aurasoundandcolor.com | 818.309.2812 | @aura_sound_inc AURA SOUND & COLOR ARE PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THE CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY up a copy of RipX as it seems to be the most spectrally full sounding while providing, what appears to be, more accurate separation. Copyright Clearance for Real Programs I was mixing a TV/film-focused podcast recently and the topic of music replacement came up. The discussion was how some shows were unable to be streamed or released on DVD due to the cost of clearing commercial pop songs. One of the shows mentioned was WKRP in Cincinnati. With this fresh on the brain, I went to the first episode of this late '70s, early '80s comedy series where Howard Hesseman's DJ Dr. Johnny Fever switches the station's genre to rock-and-roll, playing Ted Nugent's "Queen of the Forest." Over the song, we hear dialogue and laughs. I processed the clip (about five minutes in length), with each creating stems for: Vocals, Bass, Piano, Percussion/ Drums, and Other. The clip is primarily dialogue and laughs, with an acapella piece played early on for comedic effect. The Nugent tune comes in toward the end at around 4:35. What I found interesting was the audience and laugh track mostly being separated to the Other stem in RipX. This had me thinking the software could possibly be helpful if trying to language-localize a show that hasn't delivered proper splits. Since everything except the dialogue was split, the laughs and some of the production effects could be retained while dubbing another language. While there were definite artifacts at times, RipX separated the audience/ laughs generally clearly and consistently. At the same points where the audience was present in the RipX Other stem, SpectraLayers and RX had audio that sounded like strange vocal reverses on the Other stem, but had the audience/laughs as part of the Vocal stem. I assume this is because those are sounds made by the mouth. That said, there were occasions where audience was present on SpectraLayers' Other stem. RipX also had audience on the Vocal stem at times, even if it was also on the Other stem. Out of curiosity, I processed the clip with RX Dialogue Isolate to compare results with the Vocal stem. I often do this to give myself more options. The dialogue line I wanted to focus on was spoken over music playing and is the last line in the clip, "I almost forgot, fellow babies—Booger!" This silly line transitions WKRP into the world of rock and represents the birth of DJ Dr. Johnny Fever. In the Dialogue Isolated track, you can hear some of the guitar behind the dialogue. In the Vocal stems, however, the music is pretty much gone and the frequency range is