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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:06 pm Reply with quote
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phasing method works fine enough... great post TiMG. Plus just equalizing a vocal out works just as good for me. Some of you guys are missing the point, you only need just enough quality to be able to mix in with another instrumental. In essence your masking the faults with the new mix. If it doesnt sound right, then its because its not in the right key and you probably shouldnt have mixed them together in the first place.

Oh btw maths dude, thats subtraction not inverse. inverse of (x+1)

is 1/(x+1)^-1 Smilie_PDT but u got the idea anyway.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:35 pm Reply with quote
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This sound like an idea to try. Is there any software on the market thats affordable that will give me a better quality acappella? Id like to start a few mixes with the pella' so if the original mix is comin through strong it might not work.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:14 pm Reply with quote
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is it possible to invert the phase with abelton live

PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:03 am Reply with quote
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cool, thanks

PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:54 am Reply with quote
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Yeah, I think you can do it with the Utility plug-in, but I can never get it method #1 to work with Ableton.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:20 am Reply with quote
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i tried the methods that were posted and the one that worked best for me was inverting the sound...i use audacity but i was wondering which program would be best for making acapellas. i plan to buy ableton live but want to know if it is as good as it seems. Exclamation

PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:37 am Reply with quote
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thx

going 2 try now hope it work Smilie_PDT

PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:57 am Reply with quote
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I dont know if someone pointed it, but it has a way to get your accapela even cleaner.
As we know the phase cancelation is the best way to get a pela out of it's bed.
But even if this solution is the best, it has still some flaws. (ie: those low level sounds)
They are mostly acceptable, but in certain case, we just want to get rid of them.

First we have to understand where are those sounds/noise/artifacts are comming from. While mastering both the song with the voices,
and the instrumental, the engineer used the same settings that he got on the version with the voice on the version without.
Which means at the verry final stage he used the same maximizer on both version.

Those small sounds comming back after phase cancelation are coming from the version without the voice.
Fortunately they are the result of the same type of maximisation/limitation,
which means if we know how to go back (reverse engineering), we can fix that thing.
the instrumental version has less "things" to maximize which leaves more room for the sounds (artifacts) normaly "under the voice" to shine after phase cancelation.

Now that we know the problem, what is the solution?

The solution, as easy as it sounds, can be tricky.

reduce of 3 to 4 db both version, and add to both a compressor with a reverse ratio, such as 0.5:1, or 0.7:1... (that will "uncompress" them).
Keep the thresholds high enough. If you listen to the "canceled" version, the small sounds are not sounding like snare or hats playing at a low level,
but more like "the peak levels" of those sounds choped of their lower level parts.(they're mostly sounding like 8bit sounds)
Play on the attack and release settings till you get rid of the small sounds comming back.
When done add a maximizer back to the track, and put it's level up to what level you substracted at the begining.

nfect

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:57 am Reply with quote
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I just can't do it. Simply put, I've managed to acquire all the software everyone talks about (ACID, Soundforge, FL7, wavepad, Goldwave, and the plugin kn0ck0ut) and all of them seem to not be working with what I want it to do.

I don't know where to find any other software that actually works any better becuase these programs seem top-of-the-line.

What am I doing wrong?

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:52 am Reply with quote
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Anoosheh wrote:
Hi, I'm new here... I did a quick search but couldn't find anything direct on the forums, so...

Not necessarily relevant, but I didn't want to start a new thread, but after vocal extraction, is there any way to convert an mp3 file to midi that anyone knows of?


Try using Melodyne I'm pretty sure you can trigger midi in there. I've only just got it so still learning the program

PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:21 pm Reply with quote
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I have downloaded the KnoCkOut plug-in, but how Do I use it in Fruityloops? Or how do I open it? can someone please help

PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:54 pm Reply with quote
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thnx

PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:15 pm Reply with quote
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How the HELL do you do the inversion method? I'm seriously not getting it...

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:09 pm Reply with quote
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used the phase method, and it works and gives quite a good effect if u got a good instrumental and a high qual song

PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:31 pm Reply with quote
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Wow, I didnt know you can extract acapellas your self, thats bad ass and I cant wait to try it out, but I started to think about the ingredients you need to create a DIY acalella. If you have to search for a good quality instrumental then most of the time you will find a good quality acapella with it (like a single 12"). So why go through the trouble of extracting the vocals. Im hoping someone to prove me wrong. Does any one know where to find good quality intrumentals and instrumentals only.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:08 am Reply with quote
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wow thank you
it sounds difficult

PostPosted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:31 am Reply with quote
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couldent you use the instrumental of the same song and then wined them down? it would be as easyer then tryin to find the same beat but diffrent instruments

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:07 pm Reply with quote
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I'm using ableton live, and i can't seem to figure out the procedure for phase cancellation. You guys said it's done by flipping the left and right bits of audio right? is this on the instrumental or the main track?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:19 pm Reply with quote
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Yup, i tried the invert on the utility plugins. It works really well. I just didn't see the post above this page.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:52 pm Reply with quote
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Can anybody send me the invers vst for virtual dj, or uplod it?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:23 am Reply with quote
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