say I wanted to take a song, and remove the vocals so that I would only have the instrumentals.

how exactly would I go about doing that?

8/6/2007 10:15:27 AM

you can't unless you have the master recording

8/6/2007 11:56:22 AM

^Wow that is some bullshit. I had an xbox game that could do that automatically for karaoke.

You usually can't get rid of them completely, (unless you have the master of course) but there are things you can do to get rid of most of the vocals.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vocal_Removal

8/6/2007 12:50:58 PM

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"you can't unless you have the master recording"

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"Wow that is some bullshit . . . You usually can't get rid of them completely, (unless you have the master of course)"

what

8/6/2007 1:14:28 PM

ok thanks

8/6/2007 1:48:04 PM

if you just want to hear it, Virtual DJ has a feature where it will get rid of the vocals, it works pretty effectivly, but not always 100%, I dont think you can save it though...

8/6/2007 4:30:05 PM

there's a winamp plugin to do this, though, like Duncan said it's interpolative so it may not completely remove them.

turn on the plugin, set output to wav file, and whala.

8/6/2007 5:16:13 PM

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"whala"

8/6/2007 5:18:46 PM

whala

8/6/2007 5:22:12 PM

and people wonder why the French are snooty...

8/6/2007 5:30:57 PM

whala

8/6/2007 5:34:08 PM

adobe audition does it, but yeah i've always disliked the turnout. the only use i could see would be if someone was softening the vocals just enough to sing over it.

8/6/2007 10:39:45 PM

All those karaoke things do is assume the vocals are the same in l/r channels, and inverts one channel, finds NOT-vocals, then subtracts this from corresponding l/r to find ONLY-vocals, then subtracts this from original l/r.

Supposedly, you can actually do this in MATLAB.

8/6/2007 10:43:05 PM

winamp plugin:

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/vremover.htm

8/6/2007 10:56:42 PM

you can do it, but it makes the backing track sound like shit in the process, as it scoops out(eq) all the vocal frequencies to achieve 'vocal removal'.

you really need the master recordings to get a good instrumental recording.

8/6/2007 11:01:04 PM