If the sound that you want to keep (or remove) is coming from dead centre, and all other sounds are coming from the left or the right, then the effect allows you to keep (or remove) that “centre panned” sound.įrom your description I’m guessing that it’s unlikely that the sound that you want to isolate is in the middle and all other sounds to the left and right, in which case this effect will not be useful for this task. On your computer, click Start and go to Settings. The easiest way is to reinstall a new ShadowPlay on your computer. if you go in-game you also have the option to change where to output your audio. If your ShadowPlay is not recording audio after you made an update, maybe some bugs occur within the update and still exist on your ShadowPlay. That is, it looks for sounds that appear to be coming from the left, the right or the middle (this is called the “pan position”). shadowplay will record playback on whatever your default audio device is set to in windows audio settings.

The “Vocal Reduction and Isolation” effect works (when it works) by looking at where sounds appear to be coming from in the stereo field. I don’t think you need to worry about that as it is very unlikely to give useful results for what you are trying to do, but just for academic interest:

(Well, I have educated guesses as to what they are, but not really sure guesses.) I don’t have vocals, and I don’t know what the other two things are.

I’ve seen that, but it keeps referring to things like ‘vocals’ and ‘panning’ and ‘center’.

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