what to do when nothing works????

Hi everybody !

I joined this site cause i was really interested in making my own accapellas, because most of the songs i always would love to remix weren’t released on 12’s. So this site was golden to me !

Then i read all the Do It Yourself topics, studied and experiment all the different techniques, installed all the programmes and plug-ins…but at the end of the day nuthin works !!!

When i use the Noise reduction technique in Audacity, that reduces only a lil beat the drums and the bass. And that’s it !

I think the technique that works the best is the phase invert ! But even with this one, that reduces a lot but u can still clearly hear the instrumental in the background, sounds just like a phasing. And the voice also sounds metallic and closed.

I also tried the knockout tip, then the instrumental is really removed but the voice is really destroyed ! and as soon as i play with the faders, i can make the voice clear but then again, i can hear the beat way too much.

I mostly take the instrumentals from the same vynil records than the vocal tracks. And i could see that when i put two peaks the same position, then one second after in the song the peaks of the vocal track and the beat don’t match anymore ( even when the pitch on the turntable stayed on 0 ). I guess the playing rotation is just not that precise…Anyway my question is : Could i have a tip from someone who extracts accapellas from vynil records, and then which program should i use between Cubase, Audacity, Adobe Audition, should i use or not the Knockout plug-in??

Sorry, that’s a lot of questions
But Help me !!!

Thanks y’all

Thanks fo your answers

I save the songs as .wav format all the time, and i don’t use acidPro. I record ll in SOundforge and edit/multitrack it in either Cubase, or Audition.