I remember ages ago a friend had a stereo that could remove the vocals from any track, is there any software that will do the same? I have an amazing set on MP3 but there is some muppet shouting every ten minutes on it. Can anyone suggest anything?
Removing vocals?
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there has ot be ways, I know pepole that go about mixing two songs into one, and remove vocals ofrom one track, on play vocals from another track over the top
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There's soundcards that can do a close approximation of "no vocals", but it doesn't sound very good.
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My soundcard has a function that can remove vocals, but as you say, its pretty dire, takes out the bass too at times, and makes the sound awful....also lets me lower and higher the pitch of the sound haha...its all pretty rubbsih though again...finding instrumentals of standard tracks is pretty solid if I remember rightly
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Maniac618 said:is it realtek's sound manager by any chance Unromantic_Me?
Maybe
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The problem with removing vocals is that you have to take all those frequencies out of the track. That means that all the instruments around those frequencies will also be removed and it usually sounds awful.
The only way its possible is if there is an acapella of the vocal (not in your case with a dude shouting over the top of a liveset or something), which u could then invert the phase by 90 degrees and then lay it over the top of the vocal in the track precisely. otherwise your left with removing a whole bunch of frequencies as dmpoole says.
The way decent ones work has very little to do with filtering. It is to do with stereo. In most "ordinarily" produced (pop/rock) tracks, you will have the vocals in the centre along with the bass and kick drum. All the other instruments tend to be panned, if only slightly, to the left or right. Then, you just use a width expander to seperate these instruments totally, and a low cut on your remaining vocal track to remove the bass instruments. You are left with either a solo vocal, or an instrumental track if the vocal is inverted and mixed back with the original. It can be highly effective, it depends how the recording was produced really, some tracks from the 60s/70s with things hard panned all over the place clearly won't work.
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