VOCAL EXTRACTION METHODS

I’m going to attempt my first DIY acapella today. Wish me luck, gang! This info helps a ton.

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Very good info! Thank you. Can’t await to try it out.

ANYONE KNOW OF THE TRANCE TRACK ‘SILENCE BY DELIRIUM’ SOMEONE UPLOAD THE ACAPELLA OF THAT

Here’s a method I have found for 80’s acapellas, and I may have mentioned this before:

The extended remix method!

Find an extended remix of an 80’s song you want acapellas for. Study the structure of the remix, see if there are any instrumental bits corresponding to the verses or choruses that you can align alongside these verses and choruses

What you do: Open ACID (how I do it) … beatmap the song
Do splits where all the vocals and choruses and vocal bits are
Find sections in the mix where instrumental parts match the vocal bits, split them from the song, copy and paste to where the vocal bits should go

And there you go, a DIY instrumental track which can then be used for acapella purposes.

A great song that this worked on was Howard Jones Things can Only Get better. I have the acapella for this in the directory, and I made this entirely using the extended 12" mix of this song. The mix had a long instrumental break where the verse and chorus instrumentation were repeated, these were the keys to isolating the vocals.

I always use the phase cancellation – Audacity can’t do much more. Managed to get some pretty good ones with that – I’ve got a Goldfrapp – Cologne Cerrone Houdini one that’s pretty good that’s being processed here (upped it the other day).

So many pages on this thread, I haven’t read through them all, however, I have a suggestion on creating acapellas (Forgive me if it has been suggested like I said)

my Surround system has various ‘Surround Sensation’ options, and Dolby Surround options (Pro Logic, Pro Logic II, VS, XD etc) and one of them pulls the vocals out to the centre channel perfectly, if I unplug the centre channel I get just an instrumental, and unplugging the other channels, gives me just an accapella..

I know this will be using the AMP’s hardware to process the track in ways similar to how people have posted on here, but this will really save lots of time,

i’ll soon be hooking my System up so I can record the acapella, or instrumental of any track I want, I’ll let you all know how it goes once I have done some testing to find the best setting and levels, then i’ll be churning them out like crazy

– G

cool thanks, I’ll try this out, I’ve always did the manual method by taking a instrumental of the original then invert it, then place the instrumental precisely under the original which mutes the instrumental leaving the vocal there.

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hey all… i tried using audacity 4 the instrumental inverting thing bt i dnt knw hw to mix em 2geth f sum1 cld plz giv m a detailed explanation

Has any one ever used Utagoe? Its a little programme (in japanese) that has given me some decent acapellas from time to time. I’m new here so let me know if I’m able to share this programme.

dj kay dee wrote:

hey all… i tried using audacity 4 the instrumental inverting thing bt i dnt knw hw to mix em 2geth f sum1 cld plz giv m a detailed explanation

The tracks have to be lined up perfectly, meaning you will need to visually check the wave forms of both tracks to make sure they match exactly. Select your inst track, go to effects, choose invert, which will invert your wave form. Play back to see what you’ve got. If you’ve still got full inst or just inst background noise, your tracks might not be aligned perfectly. Adjust them. Zoom way the fuck in to be sure you’re matching absolutely perfectly. Playback. Repeat process. If you do this for a long time, and do not get a clean result, your tracks are likely not identical. Some filth will remain, though often more in some parts of the track than others.

great tips bro… i think i should give it a try

iferhat wrote:

ANYONE KNOW OF THE TRANCE TRACK ‘SILENCE BY DELIRIUM’ SOMEONE UPLOAD THE ACAPELLA OF THAT

Did you REALLY just ask that????
If that acapella was more widely available it would come bundled with Windows!!!!

U do deserve beating with a stick for asking that!
Requests
– not allowed.

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