how does one? rip an acappella from a track

Anyone know?

there was a plugin that compared the frequencies of an instrumental track with intrumental + vocals track and filtered out the instrumental track, but the results always sounded like shit. You're better off just trying eq the track yourselfl

isolate the frequencies with an EQ tool.

but it's impossible to get a perfect result out of a waveform file, the tracks are all mashed together. you're going to be stuck with any instrument or sound that happens to be in the same frequencies as the vocalist.

mail the band and ask for an a cappella

The only way you would get a perfect cut is if there is no master compression on either piece. then you should be able to subtract one waveform from the other. But chances are there will be compression. If you sync them together and phase invert one track you could probably get a lot of the instrumentation out. Eq can also help. Try MSED to remove side channels(thats assuming that the vocals are mono).

  Bubba69 said:

The only way you would get a perfect cut is if there is no master compression on either piece. then you should be able to subtract one waveform from the other. But chances are there will be compression. If you sync them together and phase invert one track you could probably get a lot of the instrumentation out. Eq can also help. Try MSED to remove side channels(thats assuming that the vocals are mono).

yes

i know sometimes if you insert a headphone jack halfway into say a discman there will be no vocals and about half the channels on the track gone

that's my ghetto recommendation.

phase reversing and overlaying is the only way i know how, but it's not perfect.

i believe there's a vocal remover tool in ableton, but i could be talking out of my ass.

i have never tried it, so i can't make any claims as to it's efficacy.

  loganfive said:

i believe there's a vocal remover tool in ableton

Sadly not...

indeed i was, then, talking out of my ass. :grin:

theres a vst that claims to do it, saw it somewhere, can't remember where

  Bubba69 said:

The only way you would get a perfect cut is if there is no master compression on either piece. then you should be able to subtract one waveform from the other. But chances are there will be compression. If you sync them together and phase invert one track you could probably get a lot of the instrumentation out. Eq can also help. Try MSED to remove side channels(thats assuming that the vocals are mono).

this man knows his stuff

But if you seriously have what you say you have [ track + track(with added vocals)] then you can get rid of the the vocals perfectly. I would try that. I dont know how to sync things though. Thats cool about the headphne hack haha!

  Bubba69 said:

The only way you would get a perfect cut is if there is no master compression on either piece. then you should be able to subtract one waveform from the other. But chances are there will be compression. If you sync them together and phase invert one track you could probably get a lot of the instrumentation out. Eq can also help. Try MSED to remove side channels(thats assuming that the vocals are mono).

This is probably the method you want, but it's not perfect and it doesn't work every time. Here's a link to a video tutorial:

phase inversion is the way to go. you subtract all sound thats perfectly centered, which in many cases = the vocals.

my friend had an xbox game that was a kareoke 'studio'. you could put an audio CD in and it would do this in real time, kinda impressive for a damned xbox. often you are left wtih creepy washed out reverby sounding artifacts, but nothing too bad.

this won't work for anything creatively panned either. removes anything and all things totally centered.

Search the acapella on the internet. That's what I did with 50 cent.

how does one? rip an acappella from a track, when you HAVE the instrumental version

That's the dumbest quesiton i've heard all day, and I'm a tech support agent!

he wants the vocals only

basically, think of a finished track like a cake, and then imagine trying to isolate the eggs, or the flour in the cake.

best analogy i've ever heard, but yeah, just for emphasis, as it's been saiod by several people including me in this thread.

phase inversion is about the best you'll get.

eqing isn't great because vocals occupy such a large portion of the available frequency range.

it does help to mostly remove really hi and low frq shit though.

i'm pretty certain magic works. cast a spell on the track and get drunk, eat some flies and shit on yourself for no reason. i like pickles because i'm drunk, and the salty taste from the pickle makes the beer seem sweet, it's really an awesome combination. also, i like cheese, and wish cheese was close to my body for eating.

bulbus frag carts, seven kaleidescope finger newtons and a box of crat eggs for my skull port.

  Adjective said:

he wants the vocals only

You find much vocals on instrumentals?

you don't really understand what he's asking do you?

anywhere where I can look up the usual frequencies of the human voice?

Adobe Audition 2 has an excellent vocal extraction tool - after you phase invert your instrumental against the original, which may or may not work (you will have to be totally accurate lining them up, 1 sample off either way and it will fail, and your relative levels will have to be perfect too), try using it to clean up the remaining noise.

If you're using MP3s to do this, I'd say don't bother.

Just to add, below is an attachment from another post - Tuss / Synthacon 9, with the vocoder lyrics extracted, using AA2. And that's off of a really bad quality MP3, so you might get away with it.

linky

edit: this thread was started a year ago... way to go hyperbotfuk

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