How do you take away the singing in a song?

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How do you take away the singing in a song?

Post by arceus1231 » Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:34 pm

How do you take away the singing in a song? I already tried changing it to Mono and turning it to invert but it doesn't work. Can somebody please help me?

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Re: How do you take away the singing in a song?

Post by kozikowski » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:31 pm

I can tell you that probably nobody can help you.

Audacity has a Vocal Removal tool that does probably about what you just did. There are other packaged tools that try to remove the vocals, too, but there are a ton of reasons for this not to work. If your show is in mono -- even if there are two tracks there, you're dead. If the show is highly compressed, the tools do a miserable job.

You can safely assume that you can't do perfect vocal removal, and a lot of the time, you can't do it at all.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Vocal_Removal

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