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This works for me:

1. First of all GET THE CD PROMO with the exact album version and instrumental version or club mix/club mix instrumental
2. A wav editor like SOUND FORGE or any other with a FLIP/INVERT function
3. An audio software like ACID, CUBASE, LOGIC AUDIO,ETC.

Now, in my case, I have the cd promo of donna summer - i got your love EDDIE BAEZ EXTENDED MIX, EXTENDED INSTR., I have sound forge and acid.

STEP 1:

Open sound forge 8, extract the EXTENDED INSTR, the I hightlight the whole song and I use the FLIP/INVERT preset on sound forge and SAVE IT.

Then I open ACID PRO 5,
I extract the EXTENDED MIX from the cd and I open the EXTENDED INSTR INVERTED (the one I just did ON SOUND FORGE), so I have 2 tracks and I put them together, I line-up both tracks from beginning to end, now here's the trick:

make both waveforms bigger, the biggest u can get, then line them up and play them both, If not right, keep moving those waveforms until u get them right, start from the middle, beginning or end or whatever it's easy for you, practice and pratice until u hear only the vocals and save that sucker.

In this case, I got a perfect acapella of donna summer i got your love.

I have success with:

nelly furtado - promisocus, no hay igual
sean paul - temprature
discofent ft. andrea martin, ll cool j - freeze
rihanna - unfaithfull, mariah carey - say somthing, rod steward - do you think i'm sexy, etta james - strung out.

The ones that didn't work well was rihanna - sos.

I hope you guys uunderstood it.

p.s. I just started doing these DYI ACAPELLAS, I will probably start checking my dj music collection to find me some cd promos with the album/instr and see If I can get some nice pellas for spins/remix.

Excellent site and some great tips! Will be having some fun trying to create my own acapellas later! This is OT but does anyone know aphrodite's music's hypnotising? There's a classic dance remix but i don't know who it's by. Anybody know the artist? It's not a request, i need the track for something i'm working on.

Peace.

it works the phase method even with mp3 outrageous thanks[/list]

Anybody. It's a classic but from what i can find the original is drum and bass. This one's more deep house/progressive.

thanks everyone

cool what sort of pograms are people using to make the DIY acapellas i have sound forge 8.0 can i do it all on there or do i need to get anything else. And if nt can any1 gide me through how to do it on sound forge 8.0

thanx
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Will deff give it a try, seems like it will work in theroy!!

dj Oracle

thanks for posting this this is a big help.

Wow, I never thought of number one but it makes SO much sense...thanks alot

good idea about the "invert".. i'll give it a try

juno wrote:For the first method I think he only referred to flipping which is basically switching the full left and right channels so that you basically have the negative wave of the song. When you match up the original & the invert the instrumentals will cancel each other out. The vocals will remain since there is no negative vocal frequency on the instrumental to cancel them out.


Think about it like math: say the vocals are X and the instrumental surrounding them is 1

(X+1)

You need the opposite of the instrumental to cancel it out and leave the vocals. Negative one is the inverted instrumental - the opposite. Leaving you with just the vocal if done right.

(X + 1) - 1


I havent got it down yet but I know it works from some of the tries I've done. I would've never known about this stuff if it weren't for Tim though - cheers m8

excellent explaination!

really helpful, thanks!

hmmm... how do i invert the instrumental in sony acid?
i cant find invert audio phase

The noise reduction method works very well..Thanks

seems compicating this way...

Tried the phase cancelation method and got no results.

cheers Tim, will give method 1 a whirl

Well doggies, I did nut know ya culd make them thur pellers yurself. I'm gonna have ta try and make ma sum of thum.

Thanks Thanks Thanks, you saved me hours of searching on google

bowener wrote:hmmm... how do i invert the instrumental in sony acid?
i cant find invert audio phase

in acid they refer to it as"flipping".

create a pan envelope on the instrumental track,and right click on the envelope.a drop down menu appear's,left click flip,and that should do it.

if not oh well,that's all i know.good luck!

i never even knew such things like this existed man, really interesting man, im looking forward to try this out man

im guessin da quality wont be too good

thought i'd poke my head out from under the sand.

glad people are having success with these techniques

TiMG wrote:thought i'd poke my head out from under the sand.

glad people are having success with these techniques

Is this the start of your comeback tour???

Good to see your name about again, allthough briefly.

Take care.

thanks anisina

haha
there might be a bit of a comeback tour on the way yes! maybe

Is there any way to make an acapella using Audacity? If so, can one explain?

I know this has probly been ansered before but by inverting the phaze do you mean switching the channels or inverting the waveform ?

I'm trying to figure out the best way to make rock pellas. I was trying to make one from Sweaet Child of Mine by Guns N Roses. THE PHASE CANCELLATION METHOD wont really work cuz there isnt an inst. and you cant loop it because its made live with no one tempo and even if it was, theres way to many guitars to make it sound any good. I also tried THE KNOCKOUT METHOD using Audiocity and it sounded like a robot having sex with a chicken.

Glitch Master wrote:I know this has probly been ansered before but by inverting the phaze do you mean switching the channels or inverting the waveform ?

Inverting the 'waveform'. If you was switching channels i.e. swapping left over to the right and vice versa, it wouldn't work.

Hope that helps.