Voice removal - opposite effect

[AlfaKen]

Hi - newbie here and I am not an audiophile so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

For a friend's 7 year old daughter I am trying to create a Karaoke version of a song (Frere Jaques) and the Voice Removal tool works wonderfully!

The trouble is I am left with the voice (does what it says on the tin )
I need to have the negative of this and wondered if anyone knows how to do this?

All help gratefully accepted.

Ken

[steve]

The Vocal removal effect removes sounds that are dead centre in a stereo mix. Quite often it is the main vocal that is in the centre and other sounds are panned some way to the left/right. In these cases the main vocal will be removed and the other sounds will remain. If you are getting the opposite effect and the other sounds are being removed, leaving the main vocal behind, then you have a highly unusual recording (I don't think that I've ever come across a recording like that). Unfortunately doing the reverse of the Vocal Remover effect is quite difficult and the results are usually very poor quality. How much time and effort do you want to spend on this? It may be easier to look for an instrumental version of the song on the Internet.

[kozikowski]

That's called Vocal Isolation and it requires some very serious tricks and software, if it works at all.

Vocal Removal takes out anything exactly common to left and right -- usually the lead singer, but sometimes the bass and drums go, too. And you're left with a mono, not stereo show.

Koz