Getting Vocals From Various Sources???

Try this – it was in the tutorial section…

[quote quote="totom":2c5q454d]I’m posting the same tutorial I already posted on GYBO.

I’m going to explain how to extract audio from a DVD using , which you can find fully functional demo version following the previous link. Then I’m gonna last longer on the entirely free solution, a bit more complicated (it just takes two steps), using these 2 pieces of software: , browse them into the list.

I’m also going to give a small outline of the treatments you can apply before using the acapella you got from the extraction. I’ve been using but a free software like will probably be as effective.

For this example, I used the Led Zeppelin DVD, concentrating on 2 songs from the Knebworth show: Whole Lotta Love and Kashmir.

[size size=134:2c5q454d]Let’s Begin with DVD Audio Extractor.[/size:2c5q454d]

Normally, when the DVD is inserted, your default DVD software player is closed and DVD Audio Extractor is open, you should obtain something like this:

Into such a DVD with lots of parts, you have to find and identify what you’re looking for (you can also extract everything in a row but it will soon occupy much disk space). Anyway, the green "player" buttons in the lower part are really helpful for that. You can also rename the songs you’re going to extract so you won’t spend more time to look for the song you’d like to use.

Then you have to select the right audio language, that must contain 5 or 6 channels (mention 5ch / 6ch, DTS or AC3).

Click Next

Choose Wave PCM Uncompressed format into the menu "Output Format", Same as Input for the Sample Rate (personnally I prefer using conversion from a dedicated sotware), All 6 Channels, and finally, very important, 24 bits for the menu bits per sample (we’ll only convert into 16 bits when the result is correctly normalised, even if we can still use the obtained acapella in 24 bits).

Next:

Here, you choose where you want to extract the 6 channels of the song (keep around 500 MB free, plus if it’s a full concert, it counts into GB)

Here again, don’t click on "Enable normalization", it’s preferrable to do it with another software.

You can unmark "Overwrite Files" if you fear to erase some other files with the same name.

Next:

You can select another option than "Do Nothing", if you want to quit the program after extraction or extract another song.

Click on Start:

Admire.

When the extraction is over, you should be able to see in the directory you selected for the extraction, something like this:

From the 6 files, you can generally keep channel 1 or 2 plus channel 3, that can contain the voice alone or almost or even not at all. Sometimes if it contains voice + drums, you only need to keep the third channel.

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RMX

The one person I know that has had some success is a member called corporation. He provided the site with a collection of motown acapellas. I’ve got them and they turned out great. Here is a to his original post.

As for as weither or not SA Cd’s have vocal tracks is a good question. I have wondered that myself. I guess the only real way to know is to start buying them and then try to extract from them.

By the way, what 5.1 extraction software have you been using?

Have a nice day,

Mr. C.

Several great mashes have come from pellas extracted from 5.1. BRAT’s "Big Shot Pimpin’" features an absolutely clean Billy Joel VOX from that method. There are others, tho I can’t think of them at this time….

– the Dude

SACD’s sometimes do contain original acapella tracks though. I’ve heard of this on a few occasions. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to seperate it to acquire the acapella