While many music-related blind source separation methods focus on mono or stereo material, the detection and reduction of crosstalk in multi-track recordings is less researched. Crosstalk or “bleed” of one recorded channel in another is a very common phenomenon in specific genres such as jazz and classical, where all instrumentalists are recorded simultaneously. We present an efficient algorithm that estimates the crosstalk amount in the spectral domain and applies spectral subtraction to remove it. Randomly generated artificial mixtures from various anechoic orchestral source material were employed to develop and evaluate the algorithm, which scores an average SIR-Gain result of 15.14 dB on various datasets with different amounts of simulated crosstalk.

Authors: Seipel, Fabian; Lerch, Alexander
Affiliations: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 144 (May 2018) Paper Number: 10013
Publication Date: May 14, 2018
Subject: Audio Processing and Effects – Part 2

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