taking the voicing out of already recording songs..

[ACEProlo]

how can i do this?

im trying out for a band They're Liars
and they want me to send them some voice demos with already recorded songs.

how can i do this without having to buy expensive gear? ...is there a way?

i need to know asap..

thanks && cheerss,
acee

[d7music]

The Alesis Vocal Zapper - http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VocalZapper/

[tedzepplin]

buy some karaoke CDs. they won't have the singing on them.

[VSpaceBoy]

Originally Posted by tedzepplin

buy some karaoke CDs. they won't have the singing on them.

This would be the easiest.



Another way to try and make it work try to reverse the phase of the left and right channels. Since main vocals are most always dead center, this should cause the out of phase vocals to dissappear in the mix. Then as long as you sing in key over top of it, you'll never know it was there.

[ACEProlo]

Originally Posted by VSpaceBoy

This would be the easiest.



Another way to try and make it work try to reverse the phase of the left and right channels. Since main vocals are most always dead center, this should cause the out of phase vocals to dissappear in the mix. Then as long as you sing in key over top of it, you'll never know it was there.

sadly none of the songs i am are available for karaoke.
how do i do that? ..what you were explaining?
is there a program i need?
sorry..im quite new at this all recording stuff.

[FlyingVBlues]

First, download and install a copy of Audacity, which is a free and very popular open-source audio editor available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and GNU/Linux. You can get it at this link:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Then view this video on Youtube, which goes through each step of using Audacity's phase inversion capabilities to remove the vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXiKYG3J7M

Some additional information on using Audacity to remove vocals can be found here:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.p...=Vocal_Removal

Also Goldwave, an inexpensive audio editor that costs $45.00, has high/lowpass filters for vocal reduction. You can get it at www.goldwave.com. Similar results can be obtained using all of the standard commercial DAW packages -- I just used Audacity as an example since ACEProlo didn't indicate if he had any audio editing software at all.

FVB

[VSpaceBoy]

BaM!

Thanks FlyingVBlues