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katsinme
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_ 		14. January 2010 @ 14:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am trying to remove the vocals from a song with a software program that I bought of the internet. Make Your own karaoke....I am having some difficulty to say the least...I have followed their step guide, but it isnt working well....

Does anyone have suggestions or maybe another program that can be used for this process??
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scum101
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_ 		14. January 2010 @ 15:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it's not always possible.. if the vocals are nicely in the middle of a stereo source you can get maybe 80% reduction, but it varies.. as usual here are companies selling the impossible and making it seem easy... it isn't

there are some plugins for audacity to take a band of phased information out of a stereo mix.. but those from my experience aren't great either.

karaoke disks are very different.. they aren't recordings with the vocals stripped out.. they are completely new recordings by session musicians without vocals.
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katsinme
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_ 		14. January 2010 @ 18:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thank you for your input....It is greatly appreciated...the finished quality is about right 80% removed, but I can still hear it enough that it is worthless!...I found that the better the production company the more vocals i can get removed...the cheaper ones there is almost no difference. I was hoping for more, but oh well...

Thank you again for your assistance.
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_ 		15. January 2010 @ 03:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yup.. sad to say that's life. The best results often come from the old "remastered for stereo" recordings from the 50's.. in those the mono vocals have a very definite position in the stereo image.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Vocal_Removal

One thing you can try is reversing the phase of one of the channels and running it through again.. it will sound very odd while you are processing but afterwards you may have got rid of say another 10% when you put the phase back. Nobody I read suggests that.. so I guess there aren't many experienced professional live sound engineers out there..

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/Music-Mixing_t5604.html

anyway.. maybe a quiet guide vocal track could be an advantage.. or not.. depending how good the singer is.. hehehehehe..
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katsinme
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_ 		15. January 2010 @ 08:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so how do i reverse the phase...I am one of those inexperienced people and have no idea what you are telling me to do...but if I can get better quality it might put me where it is atleast usable....my singers are excellent so no worries if I can diminish it enough.
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Mez
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_ 		15. January 2010 @ 11:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Scum, the reality is you may be one of the experts. Not just a AD where audio expertise is limited but in the audio community. Most of us are lazy, like me, and don't even care to think out of the box. If my music sounds great I am happy. I have other priorities.

You can buy music with the vocals removed but you pay a premium for them. You might find them where they sell sheet music. These have been remastered to be used by singers to practice singing a tune. I often pay 10 USDs per tune and the sheet music. That drives me nuts. I would never pay for that for my self but my daughter is spoiled. She figures if she is going to spend 40+ hrs learning a tune I can cough up the $10.
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