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[edycen]

 
 COULD ANYONE GUIDE ME HOW TO REMOVE VOICE IN A SONG ?
 
 AND USE WHAT SOFTWARE TO REMOVE ? "HOW"

[fingersoup]

Depending on what software you are using, and how good you want the sund quality of the resulting file, some songs can use the OOPS effect.  OOPS stands for Out Of Phase Stereo.

Basically, vocals are usually recorded with a center pan.  all other instruments are recorded with varying pan to the left or right.  if you take a stereo recording, Invert ONE of the waveforms (ie: flip the left channel upside down), then merge the two waveforms, anything played in the center gets cancelled out, while instruments play back relatively well.

Most sound software (such as Audacity) should handle this.

here's a site that explains it in more technical detail:  http://www.beatletracks.com/btoops.html

[Dj_Phantom]

 COULD ANYONE GUIDE ME HOW TO REMOVE VOICE IN A SONG ?
 
 AND USE WHAT SOFTWARE TO REMOVE ? "HOW"

Yes, u can remove almost the voice with AV Music Morper Gold
hope u can use it...

[Din]

You can also use a parametric equalizer to filter out the vocals.  I forget the exact frequency range, but I think it's between 300 and 1500 Hz (?).  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Then all you do is drop the gain in that range.

The main problem here is if you've got anything important happening in the same range or crossing that range, you'll end up cutting it out too.

Eviscerating a song is so not good.  Good luck.

[Din]

After some searching, I found the range to be more like 100 to 8,000 Hz (and sometimes higher).  Yeah, your average telephone will reproduce frequencies between 300 and 3,000...heh.

Anyway, I think that makes the whole bandstop-filtering less of a good idea, since you'd be removing a gigantic chunk of mix to kill one instrument.  Also, most of the vocal-removal software out there seems to use the out-of-phase stereo technique anyway.

[Andris]

Hello folks!

Anyone could kindly try this process on a mp3 I'd send to you? 

It's a Jamiroquai song, album Space Cowboy, track Space Cowboy (the very first one, hope I'm right), there are some very cool solos and stuff in the background of J's voice which I'd like to listen to closely! Especially the guitar solo is hardly recognisable but could be a great inspiration.

I'm not providing a download link here not to break forum rules and copyrights, but send me an e-mail (my addr should be visible) or leave a note here and I'll send you the 12MB mp3 file...

I really don't have the SW to do it nor much understanding of the process, and am pretty busy with other stuff, but kindly hope that for someone of you that wouldn't be much of an effort...? I'm very curious what the results could be.

Thanks a lot, I'm on pins and needles awaiting a response from someone!