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I want to record a few vocal samples but they have an underlying beat. Are there any effects thast just keep the vocals?

Thanks
 
Posted Tue 28 Jan 14 @ 12:53 pm
You're trying to record only vocals from a track that has music behind the vocal? Can't be done.

What you need is the a cappella version of the track in question. If there isn't one, then what you want is not possible.
 
So there is no filtering technique, even if it warps the vocals a bit?
 
If there is an instrumental version of the track which is exactly the same as the vocal one, just without the voice, then there's a technique called phase cancellation which can sometimes give reasonable results.

Plenty of info (inc videos) online via Google.

You'll never get a nice clean result with this method though. It'll always sound "swimmy", and you'll often be left with bits of music too.
 
It's like mixing blue and red ink in a glas and mix them together. You could try to split them up again but this is not really possible.

Greets, Heiko
 
this might help you





greetz
rob
 
Jbryant61 wrote :
So there is no filtering technique, even if it warps the vocals a bit?


there are .. .wont be perfect, but can be decent.

Basically you "sample" the instrumental parts, and subtract that from the song..
Think the above 2 videos shows how...

But usually its far easier to google for the acapella ;) Either the artist has released one, and you can buy/download, or one from the thousands of clever mashup guys have filtered one .. so you wont have to try do it ;)
 


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