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MC Mlee Hee
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Donegal, Ireland
How do you make acapellas ?

OK, in homeofmusic.com DJ RRebel puts up accapellas of tracks you wouldn't usually find them of, and listening to them it seems like he's made them himself because in the acapella of Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby if you listen closely you can hear the instrumental in the background faintly. it is pretty obvious he has made it himself.

My question is:

How do you make acapella's? How can you remove the instrumental and keep the vocals or tone it right down?

I'd really aprecitate any help.

MC Mlee Hee

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Pjotr G
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Often when you listen to studio acapella's you can hear the instrumental in the background becuz you can hear the headphone the singer's wearing. As far as i know when you filter stuff out to get a acapella you can hear it becuz you unwantingly (?) also filter out vocal frequencies (sooo sounds a bit messed up).

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DJ Rob Noli
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Brampton, Ontario

quote:
it is pretty obvious he has made it himself.


Nope, he didn't

It's directly off the vinyl, alot of house vinyls contain accapellas.

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DJTJ
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Registered: Jan 2001
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A good analogy for extracting just the vocals from a song is trying to remove the flour or the sugar from a cake after it has been baked. It basically can't be done.
This accapella must have been recorded as an accapella in the studio, as it is impossible to get the vocals out from a song after it has been mixed with the instrumental. It has to be like Pjotr G said, the sound from the headphones or something.

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welly
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you can do it in acid pro, as long as you have the vocal and instrumental version. layer the vocal version over the instrumental, and then u can use phase to just leave the vocals

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DannyO
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Calgary.

I have an idea, find out the lyrics and sing and record them yourself....
well actually I think this would be pretty cool if you found a chick with an awesome voice, just record the vocals and drop them in your set to make a synergy mix.

EDIT: or just have her do it live, seen it before a couple times, its dam good.

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NoisyNeil
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Registered: Feb 2004
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You can't really make a-cappella's just from songs! You can filter it big time and hear very less beats and melody and stuff, ... but you could never just take everything away and have only the vocals, ... and if you can, .. don't forget to tell me how


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Nemesis44
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Brighton
Re: How do you make acapellas ?

quote:
Originally posted by MC Mlee Hee
OK, in homeofmusic.com DJ RRebel puts up accapellas of tracks you wouldn't usually find them of, and listening to them it seems like he's made them himself because in the acapella of Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby if you listen closely you can hear the instrumental in the background faintly. it is pretty obvious he has made it himself.


That accapella was actually very common when the song was around. I got it on the flip side of the white label.
And yes.. that's usually the sound of the headphones in the studio that you hear.
Ironically I actually use that as cue points when I'm remixing with vocals. it can give you a good indication to tempo without too much effort.

Usually though when remixers are working they have been handed a copy of the acca by the original studio or artist.

If you do a search on things like Win MX on accapellas you will be surprised as to what you will find. Never usually what you are looking for but something will nearly always surprise you.

Cheers
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DJ Charlie
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Registered: Feb 2002
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Originally posted by welly
you can do it in acid pro, as long as you have the vocal and instrumental version. layer the vocal version over the instrumental, and then u can use phase to just leave the vocals


that can work really great... only you have to be sure that the 2 track were recorded the same way...
and you have to reverse each channel so positive waves become negative... and vice versa...
you then paste this reversed track over the other one ... and you're done

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