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Remove background instruments from a track
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| a1strank |
| Well are there any program out there that I can remove all the instruments from a track? I just want to keep all the vocals and NO background music..I'm trying to do some mix on some songs but I couldn't find a way to remove the background music from an orignal track..thanks |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
| Their is no way to do this, or atleast no easy way. Iv heard some people who have tried realy realy hard and come close but you can still hear the instruments in the backround. Maybe their is a simple way and iv never come across it, someone please correct me if im wrong |
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| webbie |
If you try to remove the background sound you will also remove portions of the vocal that is in the same frequency as the background song.
So, no, you cant just remove some and keep some. |
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| a1strank |
| Well it doesn't have to be perfect..and I know some people had done it..hmm.. |
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| jdat |
it can be done but it takes time to learn how to do it properly
there is no said perfect software for it
but get good sound editor ( soundforge wavelab etc )
and use a notch Eq .... you may have to set a lot of different frequencies to cut but it can be ! |
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| las3rjock |
| quote: | Originally posted by webbie
If you try to remove the background sound you will also remove portions of the vocal that is in the same frequency as the background song.
So, no, you cant just remove some and keep some. |
If the vocals and the background sounds are in separate frequency bands, then it is possible to remove the background sounds. However, this is a very big if, and is not generally true for most tracks. |
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| Stu Cox |
It can't be done...
This question gets asked thousands of times on every music messageboard in the world and the answer is NO YOU CAN'T COMPLETELY GET RID OF BACKGROUND INSTRUMENTS FROM A 2 CHANNEL RECORDING OF A TRACK.
You can try and get hold of the acapella (the vocals on their own, issued for some tracks by the relevant recording studio, taken directly from the unmixed recording) or you can do certain things to try and diminish the vocals, but you will never totally get rid of them.
Filtering is one thing you can do to try and get rid of most of the sound, but vocals take up a wide frequency range andso it'll be very difficult to remove the instruments occupying the same frequencies from behind them.
The other thing that is sometimes suggested is taking the instrumental of the same section of music (if it occurs elsewhere in the song without the vocals or whatever), inverting the signal and adding this to the same section with the vocals in which should, in theory, result in the instruments cancelling each other out, leaving you with the vocals. HOWEVER...
1. The instrumental music must be IDENTICAL to that behind the vocals. i.e. the section with the vocals is exactly as if the original section had been taken and the vocals simply layered on top with no further processing.
2. The section of music must be EXACTLY the same speed throughout (which means using a vinyl rip wouldn't work)
3. The section must be perfectly in phase (which is very very difficult to achieve)
The whole idea falls flat on its face with point one above, as the sound will be compressed and the presence of the vocals will affect the compression, so there is no chance that the sound of the instruments in the vocal section will be identical to that of the instrumental section.
If any of the above aren't perfect, you'll just end up with a flanging/phasing sound which might make the instruments sound a bit quieter but it'll sound pretty awful.
Hope this helps :D |
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