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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tac on November 10, 2010, 12:01:09 PM
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Where would I get them?
There are many artists who I think have incredible vocals but they are drowned in the music.. I know people that do mixes and stuff can get only the music or the vocals from a song to work with... where do they get them from?
any URLs ?
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If you mean how to cut the band out of a recording, leaving only the lead singer, I can give you a hint. Only a hint, nothing more, I'm afraid...
The singer is usually panned in the middle of the sound scene. There's several "karaoke" style thingies that can eliminate the center part (=the singer) by splitting the stereo sound and turning the other upside down, so to say. What's panned into the center gets a perfect mirror image of itself, perfectly matching parts of the sound get eliminated by the countersound. This works best with older stereo recordings. Today, the singer's voice is broadened to all over the scene by multiplied takes and echoes, thus making a perfect cutout impossible.
Now your problem is vice versa. It's impossible to cut the band out with the abovementioned way, because the left and right channel are identical only for the center, usually the singer. I don't know if there's any program that can cut out what's far left and right, leaving only the center. Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) might be a good (and even better, free :)) program to study the matter. It has lots of plugins, from which you might find a suitable tool for your needs.
A nice looking piece of information can be found here (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/41882-32-removing-music-track-leave-vocals).
Good luck! :rock
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http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk
Have to sign up but they give you a certain amount of downloads....can find almost anything there.
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Where would I get them?
There are many artists who I think have incredible vocals but they are drowned in the music.. I know people that do mixes and stuff can get only the music or the vocals from a song to work with... where do they get them from?
any URLs ?
Search 'extract vocals' from youtube you'll find a ton of instructions on how to do it for free.
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Did some more research, and as for "free", Audacity might still be a good alternative. Look at this thread (http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4956) for howtos and whynots.