I’m brand new to editing music, and I need to turn a track into a karaoke version by tomorrow.
I want to cut out the lead vocals of the song, but I want to keep the background vocals. I know that I need to “cut the bass out of the second channel from around 100hz and below (adjust cut frequency to keep bass guitar, kick drum and other bass instruments that are below voice frequencies)” but I can’t figure out how to! I already imported the stereo version of the MP3 and “split stereo track.” But now I’m stuck.
I’m brand new to editing music, and I need to turn a track into a karaoke version by tomorrow.
That’s always a bad thing…
Sometimes “Vocal Removal” works OK, and sometimes it doesn’t. It depends on how the original recording was recorded/mixed. With an MP3, it can depend on what MP3 encoding options were used (“Joint Stereo” at a high bitrate should give the best results). A high-quality MP3 from a ligitimate source like Amazon, or an AAC from iTunes should be about as good as the CD for this purpose.
This vocal removal stuff can be fun to “play with”, but you virtually never get “production quality” results, or anything like you get from a real karaoke track that’s recorded without vocals in the first place. It removes everything in the “center” (except as you know, you can keep the bass), and the result is a mono recording.
