Category: Geeks r Us
So, I've heard there's ways to take the vocals from a song.
I tried the function in goldwave, which didn't work.
and I'm too poor for cakewalk pro, I think you can do it there too anyway.
So does anyone have any suggestions? Or would be willing to take the track and strip it for me? I'd be ever so appreciative.
Cala
Hmmm, can't wavepad or audacity do this? I'm not sure, but I want to think I've seen the option in one of these programs.
As far as I'm aware, there's no really decent way to do this. With goldwave I've gotten semi close by running the remove vocals, and stripping out certain ranges of sound, but it works better with some music than others, and in the end degrades the music too. But if you find something that truly works, please let me know.
I wouldn't mind seeing something like this as well, because, from my experience, when you strip the vocals from a song, it ends up sounding like shit...
Yeah I want to know how to do this too.
Yeah, I hear that stripping vocals from a song doesn't really work because it leaves the music sounding hollow and stuff.
You cannot strip vocals from a song without extremely abliterating the music itself. Even though vocals are generally centered, there is still a left and right. You cannot do this, is what I'm trying to say, I know this because i've tried to do this same thing. You will need to find a karaoke version of the song you want...
Yeah, agreed. I know when it is done with goldwave the song actually turns out sounding as if more than just the vocals were stripped from it, and I guess the reason it cant be done all that well is because it would be hard for a program to be able to tell which are the vocals, so I guess the way to do it is as the above poster said. Anyway if the karioke track is too low or high, goldwave can adjust the pitch and I do it all the time.
I use a program called karaoke sound tools; cant remember the site offhand but google should be able to find it for you; it costs about 50 bucks but is a vocal stripper, key changer and tempo changer. as was stated before, the success or failure of vocal stripping is directly related to how the song was recorded and which channel the vocals are in the song. the vocal stripper is hit or miss in karaoke sound tools but the key changer has been worth its weight in gold for me. best option is to try to find a karaoke track of a song. some sites of interest:
www.karaokeversion.com/en
sells songs for $1.99 and has a fabulous selection.
I cant remember it but googling praise hymn tracks should bring you to the manufacturer's web site where they have a decent selection of religious karaoke for .99 per track. and youtube has quite a bit of karaoke instrumental videos.
You might try adobie Audition. My friend tried it out, and it worked nice for him.
I'm not sure how much karaoke the following site has, but tracks are only something like 15 cents! I've had no problem using the site.
www.ligamusic.com