Instrumental

Special Interest Groups Audio Processing
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Hi all. So I’m new to this whole mixing, engineering, recording, etc. thing. I am looking for a way to create an instrumental to a song with an amazing cello base. After doing all the google searches I possibly can I now know that its almost impossible to completely remove the vocals. However, after playing around with Audacity and its vocal removal options a bit I cant seem to remove the vocals without removing the cello (which is the whole reason I want the instrumental to begin with). In fact I have gotten it to a place where the cello is almost completely gone, and the vocals are dimmed or muted but far from anything close to being silenced.

I think that the vocals and the cello are the two major components of the piece with a backdrop of piano, keyboard, and drums. I don’t know if this has any effect.

Help please!!!

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Cello and vocals to a great extent occupy the same frequency band. If the “pan position” (where it sounds in terms of left/right of the stereo mix) of both the vocal and the cello are the same or very similar then there’s no way of removing one without also removing the other.

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Okie! Thanks. At least I can stop beating my head against the wall :slight_smile: !

Thanks again!