Do you know how to take out the vocal of a track?
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vitaminman
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Hey,
This will work ONLY if:
1. the song was recorded in stereo
2. the vocal is panned dead center and everything else is panned hard left and hard right.
3. the vocals weren't run through any sort of stereo effect, like a reverb or delay.
In your wave editor you will have to invert one of the channels, then copy-paste it onto the other channel...everything in the center will cancel itself out leaving you only with the sides.
In Cool Edit you simply run the track through the Amplitude>Channel Mixer>Vocal Cut preset.
Unfortunately this also gets rid of everything else in the center, most songs have the bass, kick and snares mixed there...
The best way to get a vocal-less track is to get in touch with those who hold the rights to the song and ask them for the multitrack, then you can simply mute the vocals and mixdown the rest of the audio.
Take care,
Nick
This will work ONLY if:
1. the song was recorded in stereo
2. the vocal is panned dead center and everything else is panned hard left and hard right.
3. the vocals weren't run through any sort of stereo effect, like a reverb or delay.
In your wave editor you will have to invert one of the channels, then copy-paste it onto the other channel...everything in the center will cancel itself out leaving you only with the sides.
In Cool Edit you simply run the track through the Amplitude>Channel Mixer>Vocal Cut preset.
Unfortunately this also gets rid of everything else in the center, most songs have the bass, kick and snares mixed there...
The best way to get a vocal-less track is to get in touch with those who hold the rights to the song and ask them for the multitrack, then you can simply mute the vocals and mixdown the rest of the audio.
Take care,
Nick
K
" Killah! "
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Vitaminman has got it right on the money regarding the extraction of frequencies utilizing a wave editor as a solution.
Rather than seek the masters, the best thing to do is to find the song online a capella (just the vocal track), or to go to your favorite record store (focus on RECORD store), where they sell records to Dj's, and buy a record or CD single that has the song you want... usually the singles for Dj's have an a capella version as their fourth track (track one is the album cut, track two usually the radio edit, and track three is the instrumental... you get the idea.)
DJ's need a capella tracks to mix over different beats when they're in the club, plus they do a lot of interesting stuff and creative stuff when they make Tupac rap over a Timbaland beat, or some weird shit like that.
BTW "a capella" essentially means "vocal track," if you didn't know.
Good luck.
Rather than seek the masters, the best thing to do is to find the song online a capella (just the vocal track), or to go to your favorite record store (focus on RECORD store), where they sell records to Dj's, and buy a record or CD single that has the song you want... usually the singles for Dj's have an a capella version as their fourth track (track one is the album cut, track two usually the radio edit, and track three is the instrumental... you get the idea.)
DJ's need a capella tracks to mix over different beats when they're in the club, plus they do a lot of interesting stuff and creative stuff when they make Tupac rap over a Timbaland beat, or some weird shit like that.
BTW "a capella" essentially means "vocal track," if you didn't know.
Good luck.
vitaminman
IllMuzik Staff
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 1
Hey,
At Cool Edit's site they have a whole bunch of info on removing vocals and music from tracks.
http://forums.syntrillium.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9991
Nick
At Cool Edit's site they have a whole bunch of info on removing vocals and music from tracks.
http://forums.syntrillium.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9991
Nick
