Hey,
I read on the internet that you could remove vocals and backing tracks from a song. I was wondering if i could do this with all of them but leave the drums on. Is it possible?
In general, you can’t take a mixed performance apart into instruments.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/remove-other-sound-and-extract-speech/13434/1
Koz
first don’t believe what you read on the internet.
that said, if you paid a pro studio enough money, they might be able to , in some cases, do a “good enough” job at it . but it would be a lto easier cheaper faster better to re-record the drums, or create them from a synth or midi. your best bet is to hire one of those studio musician services. they can listen and then re-do the drums better than trying to remove the rest of the stuff in the studio.
I subscribe to this. I tried to remove vocals some time ago, it’s wasting time.
The centre-pan removal method (vocal removal in Audacity) can work extremely well, but only if:
- It is a good, clean stereo recording
- The vocal is panned dead centre
- Other important instruments are not panned dead centre
- There are little or no stereo effects on the voice.
Few commercial recordings meet all of these requirements exactly, but quite a few are close enough to give reasonable results.
Low quality MP3s and Hip-Hop music almost always fail.
Mono recordings can never work with this method.
The more sophisticated tools can sometimes produce results where the centre-pan method fails,but they can take a lot of time and effort and they will still often fail to produce decent results.