Split track into two, then mono. NOT WORKING!!

[223TylerB]

I'm doing everything right as in the Wikipedia says to do so. But none of my songs that I want stripped are being stripped of the vocals, NONE OF THEM! The voice/beat just keeps getting dimmer every time I do amplify after all the other steps. I split the track into two STEREO parts, click on the bottom half and invert it, change BOTH of them to mono... and then use the amplifying tool to quiet out the vocals again... it should be complete? NO. None of them work... IDK what to do. PLEASE HELP ME.

[ignatz]

I've never attempted to get rid of a vocal, but if your original recording is a single track and the vocal is part of that track, I don't see how you can get rid of it. Maybe reduce it, but not get rid of it. Regardless of your splitting.

There is nothing special about a vocal. It's just a noise within a particular frequency spectrum and Audacity treats it just as if it were a guitar or saxophone in the same frequency range.

If you had 2 tracks and 1 of the 2 had nothing but the vocal, you could get rid of it, but from your description that is not what you are dealing with.

But maybe I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do.

[kozikowski]

In order for Vocal Removal to work, the original music has to be stereo -- they have to be stereo from the recording studio. It's also nice if the singer was in the exact middle between left and right and you didn't get the music from an internet download.

Vocal removal fails a lot of the time. It's not a push a button and it all automatically works.

Koz