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how to extract vocals or instrumentals?
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chijatt
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Hey Danny,
I think Virtual DJ has some ability to do that but it's really tough. If you're using Acid (which I do), then its playing around with the EQ levels, dropping the bass levels and playing around with Mids and the Treble. You won't be able to extract just the vocals or just the instrumentals because the sound frequencies of the vocals will coincide with the instrumentals and vice versa. I usually try to do the best I can and hope whatever I mix it with can drown out the remaining unwanted sounds without killing the fidelity of the audio. I'm sure there's a ton of people here that can give you a better explanation. lol. Good luck.
I think Virtual DJ has some ability to do that but it's really tough. If you're using Acid (which I do), then its playing around with the EQ levels, dropping the bass levels and playing around with Mids and the Treble. You won't be able to extract just the vocals or just the instrumentals because the sound frequencies of the vocals will coincide with the instrumentals and vice versa. I usually try to do the best I can and hope whatever I mix it with can drown out the remaining unwanted sounds without killing the fidelity of the audio. I'm sure there's a ton of people here that can give you a better explanation. lol. Good luck.
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AK^ is right with messing with the EQ's. Just drop the bass out completely, and then rasie the highs a lil, while playing with the mids. Most prolli it wont be clean at all.
The correct way to do it is to get the Song, the instrumental, and then ur supposed to like reverse transpose the song on the instrumental or some crazy thing like that, so that all you have left is the acapella.
otherwise, best way is to just get it from instrumenta/acapella record or contact the artist management to see if u can get it from them if theyre small time artists
The correct way to do it is to get the Song, the instrumental, and then ur supposed to like reverse transpose the song on the instrumental or some crazy thing like that, so that all you have left is the acapella.
otherwise, best way is to just get it from instrumenta/acapella record or contact the artist management to see if u can get it from them if theyre small time artists
I think abhi is talking about taking the inverse. When you already have an instrumental of the song, and you want to make an acapella, you have to align the tracks perfectly. (in a way where the peak heights are the same in the instrumental as it the instruments are in the original track if you're making an acapella). After it is aligned, you take the instrumental track and invert it in order to cancel out the instrumental in the original track. You do the vice versa when making an instrumental. Either way, you need the original track and the instrumental/acapella.
chijatt
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It's really hard to do that and do it well on Acid. You're better off going with Virtual DJ. I know in the older versions of Acid (4.0 and 6.0) that you could play around with the EQs and use a bandpass filter. I don't know why they took that out in 7. But a bandpass filter would allow you to keep frequencies between a certain range and filter out the rest. It was pretty dope...so dope a buddy mine refuses to update his Acid 4.0 lol.
And Abhi/Karan are totally correct. Basically, you line up the song and the instrumental. Once they are perfectly aligned or as best as you can, you essentially subtract (which is what Karan is talking about by inverting the track) the instrumental from the song. The common parts of the sound waves cancel out leaving whatever isn't common - the vocals.
Danny, I totally feel where you're coming from. To remove or extract vocals you can use Sound Forge I think. If you want to remove the vocals and if the vocals are panned dead center in a mix, you can subtract the left channel from the right channel thus removing the center channel but it will remove everything from the center channel, not just the vocals. This is best done with Sound Forge Channel Converter which already has a Vocal Cut preset.
So to summarize, try Sony Sound Forge (I think I'll check that out now too haha)
And Abhi/Karan are totally correct. Basically, you line up the song and the instrumental. Once they are perfectly aligned or as best as you can, you essentially subtract (which is what Karan is talking about by inverting the track) the instrumental from the song. The common parts of the sound waves cancel out leaving whatever isn't common - the vocals.
Danny, I totally feel where you're coming from. To remove or extract vocals you can use Sound Forge I think. If you want to remove the vocals and if the vocals are panned dead center in a mix, you can subtract the left channel from the right channel thus removing the center channel but it will remove everything from the center channel, not just the vocals. This is best done with Sound Forge Channel Converter which already has a Vocal Cut preset.
So to summarize, try Sony Sound Forge (I think I'll check that out now too haha)
siddyp
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I talked to one of my buddies who worked in a studio, and he said its almost impossilbe to extract vocals. artists generally put up acapellas. to instrumentalize, put the song file in your mixing software. highlight the entire object. split the object into a right audio and left audio objects. highlight one of them and invert it. (should be under the track option) then set both right and left audio objects to mono instead of stereo and enjoy! any questions just pm me.