Getting rid of voices

Eccoglyph · Post by **Eccoglyph** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:31 pm

Ok - so I'm in the midst of a project that involves getting rid of the main voice in a song (karaoke-style.) I was given a demo version of CoolEdit2000, which worked rather well, until I found that it would play the voice-edited song, but not save it past 1 minute, so its pretty useless. The song is a lot longer than that. I saw a post by someone on AMV who was describing how voice editing worked, and thought perhaps someone here may have a program I could use, or know where I can get one. (I'm trying not to spend too much money on this - may not work, anyway.) Thanks in advance!

iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:52 pm

Dunno about CoolEdit, but the easiest way that I've found is to use SoundForge and do a Channel Convert of Stereo->Stereo, vocal remove (kill center channel). This will remove MOST (not all, but MOST) of the vocal track, as well as, unfortunately, a good amount of the other material. The reason for this is that 1)there's always some voice material that they put independently on the L and R channels and 2)other stuff is on the center.

Good luck

gypsy · Post by **gypsy** » Wed Dec 25, 2002 5:26 pm

you could always search through kazaa for a instrumental version of the song your useing / buy a single cd which should have a few different versions of the same song on it