Probably stupid but oh well

  On 2/15/2011 at 2:08 AM, ryanmcallister said:

What Awepittance was suggesting was that you can isolate vocals if you have a complete version of a track AND an instrumental version of it. Using this technique (inverting the phase on one of them, doesn't matter which) you can cancel out everything that is the same about the two tracks, leaving only the vocals (which should be the only difference). In theory this works, but quite often in practice you will run into artifacts resulting from mixing/mastering fluctuations in the two tracks. But you can get pretty damn close.

hehe i actually forgot about that most important/key part, you need to have the instrumental as well to do this. but thanks for filling in the holes.

  On 2/16/2011 at 1:05 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/15/2011 at 2:08 AM, ryanmcallister said:

What Awepittance was suggesting was that you can isolate vocals if you have a complete version of a track AND an instrumental version of it. Using this technique (inverting the phase on one of them, doesn't matter which) you can cancel out everything that is the same about the two tracks, leaving only the vocals (which should be the only difference). In theory this works, but quite often in practice you will run into artifacts resulting from mixing/mastering fluctuations in the two tracks. But you can get pretty damn close.

 

hehe i actually forgot about that most important/key part, you need to have the instrumental as well to do this. but thanks for filling in the holes.

:sup:

I managed to get my hands on a copy of Tom Cosm's 10-hour beginning tutorial for Ableton... suposedly the best one out there.. downloading now.. wooo :D

i think i posted this earlier in EKT but for anyone that missed it i did end up doing a tutorial vid on the acapella technique we were discussing:

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woah! That's awesome. :)