Removing instrumentals from a song

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Removing instrumentals from a song

Postby ultimateX021 » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:15 pm

I'm trying to remove the instrumental from a song, so that I could mix the vocals to another song's instrumentals. I already found some tutorials on removing vocals in a song, but none on instrumentals.

How can I do this?
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Re: Removing instrumentals from a song

Postby Willen » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:01 am

Depending on the method used to remove the vocals, it might be simply modified to keep the vocals and remove everything else.

Barring that, if you have the non-vocal track, you can load the original track into your favorite sound editor and subtract the instruments using the non-vocal track.

Just fair warning, the results are probably not going to be that pretty.

You could try the Voice Trap plug-in here: http://www.cloneensemble.com/vt_main.htm. It's shareware, so to get the full functionality you have to pay $25, but you might get decent results with the default/limited settings.

Or the Extra Boy http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1651.html and Extra Boy Pro http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2107.html VST plug-ins.
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Re: Removing instrumentals from a song

Postby Willen » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:11 am

I forgot. Here's the Audacity wiki page on Vocal Removal which also deals with vocal isolation: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Vocal_Removal.

If you are using Audacity, be aware that VST plug-ins have some limitations when used with the program due to licensing restrictions. If you are using something else, then the previous sentence might not apply.
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Re: Removing instrumentals from a song

Postby npcomplete » Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:43 am

Probably the best method is: Photosounder described in this article

You can find youtube demos there showing how to do what you want
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