How Do I Remove Vocals??

[BotonyProduktions]

Seeings how no body replied about this before, Im just gonna make a thread for it. Please, Some one tell me how i can remove vocals from a song. Like how Piracy Productions removed the vocals from "When Im Gone".

[many-monkeys]

At 2/28/06 02:49 AM, DjBotony wrote: Seeings how no body replied about this before, Im just gonna make a thread for it. Please, Some one tell me how i can remove vocals from a song. Like how Piracy Productions removed the vocals from "When Im Gone".

You have to buy a prog for that

[DJ-DairyKing]

Why dont you just ask Mike (Piracy) about the program he used.

[Chronamut]

you can do it with cool edit pro - but you need to isolate parts of the song that recur thoroughout the entire song and use that to strip all instances out.. oh wait thats to get vocals out of a song..

I dont know - because an mp3 is a merged down version of what would have originally been 2 tracks layered on top of each other - the vocal tracks and the karaoke tracks.

There are karaoke versions of songs out there - you just have to find them :P

[TjA]

try finding the song you want as an instrumental or if you cant find one use Google and search for a program that can remove lyrics also try Download dot com

[LJCoffee]

At 2/28/06 02:49 AM, DjBotony wrote: Some one tell me how i can remove vocals from a song.

One method which sometimes works is to open the file and invert one of the channels.

Only one - either the left or right... Don't expect great results though - this method only works about 20% of the time.

The thinking is that the music will normally be stereo while the vocals will be centered - when you invert one channel, the inverted vocals on the left will cancel out the normal vocals on the right decreasing or in some cases completely eliminating the vocals while leaving the music intact.

The reality though, is that the music will in most cases be noticably altered and the vocals, while reduced greatly, will still be audible.

This process will also usually fail if there are any effects applied to the main vocals - like reverb.

Good luck...

[BotonyProduktions]

Well, the inverting thing did nothing what so ever. And Ive been tryin to google for Karoke songs, but with no avail. And ive also been trying to get a hold of Piracy, but still, nothing. :(

[LJCoffee]

At 2/28/06 04:46 PM, DjBotony wrote: Well, the inverting thing did nothing what so ever.

Yeah - that sucks... sometimes it works - most of the time it doesn't... I'll keep an eye open though - if I come across any reliable ways to remove 'em, I'll post it up.

Good luck in your search.

[wat-u-smokin]

if your lucky, you can search the internet to find if they have that song available to have instrumental.....i'll do some digging considering that i would like to remove vocals from some songs.

[GoreBastard]

The best way to remove vocals it to beat the fucking shit out of your singer, then when he's unconcious, throw his ass in a river and let him drown. He will never sing again... Just like that fucker from my ex-band...
Get some lol's down you.

[wat-u-smokin]

....that still doesnt solve the real problem, you need to get the lyrics out of the songs ALREADY made.....however, there are some artists in this world....i wouldnt mind letting them drowned....by my hand....in a cold river.

[GoreBastard]

Darth Vader can solve all of your problems.

[B0UNC3]

Open up a 24 bit wave file of it and filter out the frequencies for the song......

24 bit waves are easier to work with than 16-32 bit or an mp3 file
32 bit floating point is good too but only use it if your soundcard can support it.

[Chronamut]

um.. B0UNC3.. i doubt he even knows what you're talknig about when you say "filter out the frequencies"...

you have to realize that not everyone here is a music theory geek like you hahaha..

[Khuskan]

Basicaly speaking, if you have a recording which has the sound of a gunshot in it, if you have the same sound of a gunshot on its own with no backing, you can use that to 'subtract' the sound from the first recording. It's pretty complicated though...

[B0UNC3]

At 3/1/06 08:51 AM, Chronamut wrote: um.. B0UNC3.. i doubt he even knows what you're talknig about when you say "filter out the frequencies"...

you have to realize that not everyone here is a music theory geek like you hahaha..

Then fucking learn :P

It's like trying to play a piano but not knowing where/what the keys are.

[Khuskan]

At 3/1/06 02:01 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 3/1/06 08:51 AM, Chronamut wrote: um.. B0UNC3.. i doubt he even knows what you're talknig about when you say "filter out the frequencies"...

you have to realize that not everyone here is a music theory geek like you hahaha..

Then fucking learn :P

It's like trying to play a piano but not knowing where/what the keys are.

Even if you've never seen a piano before, it HAS to be obvious where the keys are... They're the only white thing on the damned instruments.

Unless you have a white grand... *drool*

[hintswen]

contact whatever company makes the cd it comes on or the compony that records it. ask them for the version with no vocals. you can but them if you botherd asking.

[Khuskan]

They'll make you pay. Litteraly of course, and it will probably be a LOT more expensive if they know you're using it for public peformance.

[LJCoffee]

At 3/1/06 08:51 AM, Chronamut wrote: um.. B0UNC3.. i doubt he even knows what you're talknig about when you say "filter out the frequencies"...

you have to realize that not everyone here is a music theory geek like you hahaha..

Well... audio engineering and music theory, while somewhat related, aren't exactly the same thing - btw - Chron - I'm not cracking on you or anything I'm just commenting...

Filtering freqs can help, sure, but the problem is that yu can't just filter out all of the possible frequencies that make up something as dynamic as a voice - in the process of removing the vocals you'd destroy the instruments as well...

If anyone out there uses Aufition you can run a few tests - record a minute or two in a relatively noisy room - by noisy I mean run a fan or two so you'll get constant lf noise in the background.
Be sure to get a few seconds of just the noise as well. You can play with capturing noise recuction profiles (by selecting an area with just the noise you want to remove) and applying that to the whole wav. Your noise will be gone if you did it correctly but it'll completely fuck up the parts that you probably want to keep too. It'll sound grainy and choppy and often it messes with the dynamics to the point that you can't even re-adjust them to correct it...

Shit... where the hell was this going... I have no real clue...

Oh yeah - I remember now - Music theory huh? - for anyone who'se wasting their time reading this - I have a theory for you - your music sucks... ha ha

[B0UNC3]

I read it....Thanks for hurting my feelings...:'(

Well Filters are not the only solution.There are EQ's too ;D;D

[Seasons]

At 2/28/06 11:18 PM, wat_u_smokin wrote: ....that still doesnt solve the real problem, you need to get the lyrics out of the songs ALREADY made.....however, there are some artists in this world....i wouldnt mind letting them drowned....by my hand....in a cold river.

Amen.

[Devilsojii]

At 2/28/06 02:49 AM, DjBotony wrote: Seeings how no body replied about this before, Im just gonna make a thread for it. Please, Some one tell me how i can remove vocals from a song. Like how Piracy Productions removed the vocals from "When Im Gone".

I think you can do that with fl studio, but im not really
sure, thats what piracy uses.

[Chronamut]

you're right lj and khus - ive doen that in cool edit to stuff i record on my webcam - I simply rerocd something - leave some silence at the end - isolate that - use it as a sample and then apply it to what i recorded - and voila - perfectly recorded stuff!

works like a charm..

[ParagonX9]

Well I think I got the best solution to pick out the vocals very clear..
I found this technique during a dream in my sleep. I tried it in real, and it worked perfectly!..

If theres a non-vocal piece in the song (Or an instrumental version) which is exactly the same piece as used With the vocals, select it and Invert the Phase the waveform and Copy that non-vocal piece. Now mix-paste it over the piece With the vocals.
If done correctly, it should now punch back the waveform behind the vocals (since you inverted the phase of the copied non-vocal waveform) .. You nee d to do it 100% accurately tho..

[Laiderdaiv]

At 3/3/06 02:25 AM, ParagonX9 wrote: Well I think I got the best solution to pick out the vocals very clear..

Your dreams rule.