Cutting Vocals out of sample (I need help now!!!)

How do I cut vocals out of a sample?

usually u cant. it depends on how it was originally recorded. i have some gear with voice canceller on it, but it usually leaves traces of other instruments , if it works at all.

you should try software for this, check out innaspace accapellas on soundclick. he filters out the instrumentals and keeps the vocals, i know u want the opposite but i believe the same principle applies.

Ok so your saying If I have a CD... I can cut the vocals out and have straight instrumentals... I heard of this before but I've never seen it done... I know what a notch filter is and I get the principle of vocal FQCY ranges... but to dip out the entire vocal bandwidth? Wouldn't that effect the sound quality of the sample? What about mastering audio techinques... wouldn't that work against the idea of someone trying notch cut a FQCY range of a stereo work? The reason why I ask is because from my understanding this can't be done really... unless you have the session files of the recording... when something is "MIXED" and put together in stereo there no such thing as "vocal remover" I least that what I believe... I've told people who say I have a vocal eliminater the were on crack!!! was I wrong? because no matter what I still here about these capabilaities...

You are correct... it pretty much can't be done. If you get lucky and the vocals are panned center, and most of the instruments are panned left or right, you can cancel out the vocals by inverting the phase of either the left or right channel and then summing to mono, but you will loose everything else that is panned center too, and it usually will make everything that is left over sound strange since you will probably loose some effects too.

OCTAIN wrote:Ok so your saying If I have a CD... I can cut the vocals out and have straight instrumentals.

no, i gave the soundclick example so you can hear the closest you can possible come,
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemus ... dID=325588

oops... can't get to soundclicks...deployed, Govement Computer... excuse me for rant though... I keep meeting people talking about how they got some vocal eliminater bull ish... knowing their full of it... long story, but It gets under my skin when these program makers try to markets their softwares as such... I mean... D@mn! Don't everybody know that really isn't possible? from now on I'm not going to even acknowlege that ish... not personnal...

it won't work,jus be creative.

i learned how to do it but never got it to work really. sometimes the phase trick can isolate other sounds on the record but its not really worth your time...if you cant work with the sample...you shouldn't.

it can work. the theory behind it is vocals are normally recorded in the middle of the track. i've used Audacity to perform this. first you need a true stereo sample. Not a stereo mp3. then you import the stereo sample into audacity then split the stereo tracks then make each of them mono then take the right channel and invert it. then play it back. it doesn't take out the vocals 100 percent but if used as a sample, you will more than likely adding other elements to it, effectively cancelling the lead vocals. this doesn't work on background vocals, just lead vocals.

once you do this in audacity, export both channels as one sample either wav or mp3.