Need Help Removing Vocals

[wado1942]

Unfortunately, this is not something that can really be done without really harming the sound quality. You can try using the band splitter to separate everything above 300Hz or so into a separate track, inverting the right channel of said new track and summing everything back to mono. Like I said, you'll lose a lot of quality this way, but there won't be much (if any) lead vocal.

[Alexey Lukin]

This is about as good as you can get.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Alexey Lukin

This is about as good as you can get.

ah the old dunk the vocalist underwater method

brilliant

[Thomas W. Bethe]

To the OP


One overlooked problem with trying to remove vocals is it is based on assuming that the vocalist is dead center in the mix. Today that is not necessarily true. The other problem is that most vocalist have stereo reverb added and you cannot get the voice out of the mix completely. There use to be a device advertised in the back of Popular Science that guaranteed it could remove most vocals but I doubt that it worked as advertised for all vocal removal chores.

There is a new piece of software from Sony Creative which I have not tried that maybe able to do what you are seeking. It is somewhat expensive but there is a trial version available. Here is a link to the information SpectraLayers Pro Overview. It is available for the PC and the Mac. It does have some fairly specific hardware and software requirements.

Best of luck!

[lowland]

Roland R-mix looks interesting -

Something for you to listen to.

- I've posted a couple of video links later in the thread, but Lynn's examples are worth a listen.

[Thor]

White-Out?

;-)

Thor

[Heyclown]

Originally Posted by Alexey Lukin

This is about as good as you can get.

Sweet. What did you do?

[Alexey Lukin]

iZotope Vocal Eraser + some manual work in RX with Spectral Repair.