VOCAL EXTRACTION METHODS

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.

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

DJ_LITOO wrote:

este es el programa que yo utilizo para extraer algunas voces "AV Music Morpher Gold" depende mucho como se hizo la grabacion tambien.

The phase cancellation method has not worked for me much.

how do i number 1 on magix audio studio? anyone? please need help

[quote quote="eroticamix":fnz3s691]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.[/quote:fnz3s691]

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

I was just wondering if there is any way of creating an accapella WITHOUT an instrumental?

goldmine of info.
will be very helpful!!

djbennygee wrote:

why do diy accapellas sound computer like

Because they are done using a needle and cotton.

Thanks for the help

sounds easy…but probablly it is not…at all

This Is All Great Stuff. Thanks.

Does anyone know of good techniques using Ableton.