Dj Sharpnel - Vocals/acapellas?

[DavidKrachtLam]

If you don't know him/her, it's a two person band that makes J-Core(Japanese Hardcore), Techno, and sometimes, though it's rarely heard, Terrorcore.

Most of his/her songs has vocals in it. In a few of them, some of the vocals are amazingly clean and beautiful, like this one. I mean, who would be able to resist such a voice?

If anyone knows where I could get similar vocals, I would appreciate it very much.

Regards,
- David

[Phyrnna]

I listened to your Shihen remix. I was wondering where you got those vocals.

One suggestion is to look up the original source of the vocals and get acapellas that way. I know Shihen took its vocals from Itsuka Tokeru Namida by Savage Genius.

[Nav]

Hey, this is the genre I produce and DJ in most. Another good J-core artist is DJ Shimamura...

Anyway, the vocals were recorded from an actual vocalist. Usually, the hardcore producers get vocalists in the studio, which is hard for independent artists. If I were you, I'd stick with sampling stuff from movies or the like, which is where a number of quality tunes came from.

[DavidKrachtLam]

Thank you for your replies!

So basically when you're only 1 person, the best thing you can do is to "borrow" voices from anime's and such? Is that legal?

Also, I know for a fact that DJ Sharpnel used some vocals in Little God Channel from the Lucky Star Opening theme, "Motteke Sailor-Fuku!", but the vocals were played in the song, with other instruments playing at the same time. How did he get those out so clean?

[Nav]

Well, it's a gray area in legal territory, meaning both they've gone both ways. Most of the time, though, it's ok. I hear it in signed songs all the time.

[Triskele]

The basic idea is, it's not quite legal, but mostly nobody gives a damn. Especially if you're pulling something from a tv show or whatever, you stand little to no chance of getting called on it.

[Triskele]

Drrr double post.

In terms of ripping acapellas from fully instrumentalized samples, it's not easy but definitely possible. The basic strategy is to figure out approximately where in the mix the vocals lie in terms of frequency, and cutting all other frequencies in the sound. You end up with a rather dingy sounding acapella.

Your alternative is called "phase inversion," or "phase cancellation." It still doesn't produce a perfect acapella, but it's closer. The idea is, you have two sections of music: an instrumental clip, and a clip of the same instrumentals with vocals over them. So in other words you bring the section you want to extract the vocal from and another section of the song with the same notes but no vocals. You subtract the waveform of the instrumental version from the vocal version (by inverting it and then mixing them), and with a little bit of luck out comes a decent vocal track. You'll need to remaster to touch things up afterward, of course.

There are more suggestions here: http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/topic6806.h tml Good luck :>