fixing my sample

i know that this may be a stupid question to all of you, but i'm new to this stuff iand i really don't know. don't call me an idiot for not knowing this already,but if i trimming my sample and i only want the ssound and not the vocals, would i be able to do that with the 500, or would i need a mixer
can anyone help me with that. it would be well appreciated. thanks in advance.

If you mean you have a sample that contains music and a vocal and you want to remove the vocal from it then in short you can't

You can apply filters to it to try and filter out the frequencies that the vocal contains but that will take out all frequencies in that range so what ever is in the music as well of that fequency will be removed

There is a trick of reverse phasing but it would require you to have the acapella of the track as well and i have never got it to work

and there are plugins that claim they can do it - but again i believe some loss of the music will occur

so you're saying just edit it the best way i can the way it is right?

well i guess so but in all honesty if you want a piano loop that has a singer over the top of it I would be very surprised if you could isolate the piano loop in any way that would sound pleasing

you could filter down to the bass line no problem

or you can chop bits of the music out where theres no singing

its hard to really answer without knowing what the music is and what you want to end up with

but there is no magic box that will do it for you its all down to eq'ing

sometimes a vocal can be panned hard right or left, happens sometimes on old records, maybe try to separate the left and right channels.

oraziodelcore wrote:sometimes a vocal can be panned hard right or left, happens sometimes on old records, maybe try to separate the left and right channels.

yeah thats true - always worth differentiating whats going on in the left and right speakers