Do it yourself acapellas or DIY refers to the procedure of manually separating a vocal-only portion of a music track from its instrumental counterpart; also known as vocal extraction. Lots of techniques, advice and help in here for creating that very special D.I.Y acapella. (NO REQUESTS)
Normally what works best for me & some other people too, is I get the instrumental of the track and the original. make sure the are the EXACT bpm and volume levels. I put them in SOUND FORGE. Then invert one track mix them together and see the results. you may have to mess with the timing a bit to get the tracks exactly lined up. then after they are mixed together i throw the mix into ADOBE AUDITION 2. there is a center chanel extraction method in there that usually removes the rest of the noise left from the track! try it out.! good luck!
thanks for the tips TImG.. i've been recording and producing tracks for years now and never even thought of a phase reversal solution for getting acapellas. Cheers!
THE PHASE CANCELLATION METHOD IS the best but i dont have all the instrumentals parts of all the songs , i think that is easier to find the acapella of the song than de instrumental
Wow! A new world is opening to me. It's been sad to spend so much time looking for acapellas to make my rmxs... Now I'm really interested in discover how to make them myself! I will try what you say! Thanks a lot!
TiMG wrote:heres an overview of the different methods used for extracting vocals...
1. THE PHASE CANCELLATION METHOD Get an instrumental of a song, invert the phase (sometimes refered to as flipping), and mix it with the original.. If done right everything besides the vocal is cancelled out. You can do this in any sequencer like cubase or acid.. The instrumental must be excatly the same time/pitch however. and mp3s might not work if they are badly encoded. Zoom right in to see the 2 waveforms next to each other (look for kick drum hits) and line them up.
what program would you use for this!!!!! acid, or sound forge?????
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 advise!
I was trying the flip this morning, the invert options in cubase sx3 arent too hot, I managed to loose the vocal and keep the audio
I'll flip my track in soundforge first tonight!
Cheers
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hey knockout link doesnt work.......ive tried the first method but i keep taking aout the pella.........lolol....... but i think its because i dotn have the instumental......and tryed looping and making my own
hey guys, i was wondering if anyone could help me out... im trying to do the phase cancellation method using acid pro 6.0, but i cant figure out how to do the invertign step! ive tried the help menu but it doesnt really help... can anyone please help me shed some light on this?
