VOCAL EXTRACTION METHODS

wat software 2 use

this Kn0ck0ut plugin can work as a pretty cool filter. Especially on guitars! I like it.

Really handy topic!! thanx!

Thanx for the tip i never knew that you could create your own acapella’s
thanx

This thread is the niceness.

i’m not getting any good results… I see ots of different program suggestions and methods, but so far, I’ve been turning out some crap… but, I’m also trying to do rock music vocals… i saw a little in this thread… referrences and what not… but does anyone know if it would make much difference… for shits and grins I tried to do fresh prince and jazzy jeff – parents just don’t understand… but I guess I’m not doing something right… i’m new to this, so I’m just i’m just misunderstanding something… any suggestions?

thanks for that information! I will try to do some.

trying the MDSP… amazing but complex tool…

marcicano wrote:

.. thank u very much noob. then u have to….

lol

Sounds cool, How exactly do you do method 1 in acid?

cool thankz…didn’t work though but okeay

That was very helpful…Ive never tried making acappellas but I think this will work =]

[quote quote="TiMG":376saqk5]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.

2. THE KNOCKOUT METHOD
using ‘knock0ut’ (http://www.freewebs.com/st3pan0va/) you can spectrally subtract one piece of audio from another. Start by extracting the centre mono of a track (soundforge or cooledit will do it with the pan/expand feature). then try and make an instrumental out of loops from the track and ‘knock them out’ of the vocal parts. This can work even if the instrumental isn’t excatly the same as the song.

3. OTHER METHODS
Besides these methods you can try Cool edits (now audition) noise reduction feature, which is very powerful. Analyse a bit of instrumental and get a profile (6000 or 4096FFT is a good size).. reduce than from the whole song.
You can also try the soundhack spectral plugins and Voxengo’s Transmodder to futher reduce spikey nosies like drums.. (don’t ask me how .. its all trial and error).

You will NEVER make a totally perfect acapella with 2 and 3. You can however make something good enough to work in your mix.. USE YOUR EARS! LISTEN and learn and you might get somewhere

TimG[/quote:376saqk5]

its hard to do some of these sometimes

Cool, gonna check it!

thxs