Extracting vocal from song

[Mike Hunt]

Downloaded them and yes, but isn't that irrelevant now? I already said I extracted it with success.

[steve]

How to "clean it up" is a very vague question when we don't know what you are trying to clean up.
There is information in the Audacity wiki about reducing noise: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... cing_noise

[Mike Hunt]

Well, you can still hear the music very faintly, like it's played on a radio somewhere in the distance... You know. Very annoying.

[steve]

As Koz said earlier, "about the same" copies will not cancel out completely. If the files were MP3s, then you will not be able to get them exact, there will always be some "leakage". The best that you can do is to get the two copies as close as possible, and that's as good as it gets.

[Mike Hunt]

I said in my first post that they are both in FLAC... And I have saved the extracted vocal in WAV.

[kozikowski]

<<<I said in my first post that they are both in FLAC.>>>

You also said you downloaded it from the internet, so you don't know who produced the FLAC or where they got the original material from. I can produce a large, uncompressed, perfect WAV version of an MP3 file and it will have all the bubbly, distorted characteristics of the MP3 (as one compressed example).

You don't recover from Compression damage. Once you damage the sound, you have damaged sound.

As an exercise, try to increase or decrease the volume of one of the tracks in addition to sliding one back and forth. Use very small fractional dB changes.

Koz

[Mike Hunt]

I know who produced it: LosslessOne. Not LossyOne.