Removing Voacals

How do you get rid of vocals from samples is there a special program which maybe used to get the desired results.

hmmmm... You have two options:

1. Contact the record company for the og tracks
2. The futureproducers forum. Do a search on vocal removing there..

thers a new bit of hardware out- alesis i think that attempts to do this dunno how effect it is...or could be....black art is vocal removal...

greg

This is a common one that you will see on different sites; you can convert the stereo track to mono panned dead center and that reverse the phase to kill all sounds panned dead center. This doesn't work that well because it removes everything panned dead center; bass, kick, whatever. The below one is off the Pro Tools site, but I haven't tried it yet.

Here's a better way to do it using the same polarity cancellation concept but still keep the stereo image and keep the kick drum and bass:

Start with your two tracks for the source material. One panned hard left, one panned hard right. Create a post-fade send on each track and route them both to the same mono bus. Now create a mono aux track and set its input to the bus you routed the signal to. Insert two 1-band EQ plug-ins on the aux track. Set one to high pass set the other to low pass. Make sure you click the polarity flip button on just one of the plug-ins. Now slowly bring the level of the aux up until you hear the voice start to cancel out. When you get there adjust the high-pass filter to allow the kick and bass to be heard. Now adjust the low-pass to allow through any other non-vocal program material that may be in the high frequency range that may also be in the center. You may need to readjust the aux level after you fiddle with the filters. Keep tweaking the filters and aux level until you get the best result.

In the end you still have a stereo track, a kick drum and a bass line and you've successfully cancelled out the vocal (if it is on the center track). Keep in mind that you can't do anything about the reverb from the vocal and you can't do anything about it if the vocal is not in the center.

The poster later said you can cancel vocals panned to different sides by adjusting the pan on the sidechain. I haven't tried this yet because I haven't had a need, but it sounds like it will work.

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


Enjoy

anyone tried the plug in??? im going to as soon as i get home from work..

jorge guzman wrote:anyone tried the plug in??? im going to as soon as i get home from work..

I have it in the computer and its cool it does not remove completely.....but with a little tweeking you can have it doing wonders.........

for a little more feed back on the vocal remover by alesis:click here

I don't even try to remove vocals anymore because it never comes out the way I want. But for some odd reason, when I run my turntable directly into my MPC2000 it removes the vocals really well, although at first it was undesired, it worked out really well when I actually did want the vocals removed...