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Originally posted by Evolve140 There are people who can extract vocals pretty well from tracks, and I've seen it done in trance before. If you manage to get ahold of it another way, you'll be ok just as long as you keep it as a bootleg and don't try to sell it in either case. there are tons of acapellas all over the net, you just have to look, to state the obvious.

They always sound muffled and not right, like listening from a cheap radio.
Not having a go at you or nothing, but i'd love to see a example

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Originally posted by Julz They always sound muffled and not right, like listening from a cheap radio. Not having a go at you or nothing, but i'd love to see a example

True that.

wasn't there some plugin that came out a couple of years ago that was basically a few effects in one that was designed to extract vocals? It had a harsh mid/side/parametric eq to strip out the center channel then others to strip rhythmic elements out etc?

Yea, forgot the name thou.

I think Daniel Kandi's bootleg of Big Sky was done that way.

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Originally posted by Evolve140 There are people who can extract vocals pretty well from tracks, and I've seen it done in trance before. If you manage to get ahold of it another way, you'll be ok just as long as you keep it as a bootleg and don't try to sell it in either case. there are tons of acapellas all over the net, you just have to look, to state the obvious.

i think you are a little confused.

there is no secret. The acapella you are hearing was either leaked by a remixer or taken from a ps3 version. there is no skill in extracting vocals. There are no secret algorithms or tricks. TO be honest, I think it is better for the music scene in general if you have to hire someone to sing the part you want.

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i might be confused about if he extracted the vocals or not, i can check. personally i don't have an opinion about it anyway. i'd love to start working with my own recordings and vocals soon, than other people's.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney I think it is better for the music scene in general if you have to hire someone to sing the part you want.

I totally agree, and fully intend to do so if I ever create something that I feel is good enough to release, but for now I just wanted something to play around with, I know very little about production with vocals.

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Originally posted by Wayn0 I totally agree, and fully intend to do so if I ever create something that I feel is good enough to release, but for now I just wanted something to play around with, I know very little about production with vocals.

1) Grab an acapella, mix it to where you think it should be.

2) Raise the fader on the vocal channel by about 3db, because that's where it should really be

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