Samples

Is there anyway to remove the vocals from a sample other than trying to find the intrumental version which is hard to do for most older records?

Don't think so...

No.

There are ways to cancel out vocals to get something that might be good enough for karaoke use, but nothing can get rid of the whole vocal (especially the reverb!), which is what you'd need if you want to use the sample in a production.

sometimes voclas are recorded just on the center channel. they make programs and devices to elimate that channel to "take out" the vocals.

ain't gonna find much help man, the programs that do this are crap and some people wouldn't tell you the art of EQin most of it out because they're producers with voice tags in thier beats maybe?

lo-fi wrote:No.

There are ways to cancel out vocals to get something that might be good enough for karaoke use, but nothing can get rid of the whole vocal (especially the reverb!), which is what you'd need if you want to use the sample in a production.

I just recently read (can't remember where) that if the vocals are recorded down the center and the instruments are not, you can invert one of the channels in a wav editor and mix paste it over the other channel. This should remove the vocals (but it seems to me it would f*** up some of the other stuff too). I haven't tried this yet, but give it a shot.

this program may help you do what you are trying to:-

http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... emover.htm

yeah u read it right above chrono posts homes.

sometimes i use this method, depending on how the song was recorded.

in protools i import a stereo track onto 2 mono tracks(seperate left and right , ofcourse) then i take a track(either one.i jus use the "right channel" tack) and INVERT it.

since vocal tracks are usually recorded as mono (hense, mono microphone)and sent equal on both channels, it has the exact same wave signal. in most mixes, there is panning with the instruments giving that "spacing "effect.so it wont affect those.(unless its dead panned in the center.

so when u INVERT an identical signal it cancels out the signal.(does that make sense?
the speakers cant move back and forth at the same time.
it works for me on some tracks. and again, it depense how it was recorded. if the vocals were recorded with a stereo mic, never gana work....

but im sure theres some softwares out there that specialise in this.
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for those into the terminology -it's called phase cancellation.

Get your head around phase and there are many tricks to find