Editing Question

[rimshot86]

For certain reasons I was wanting to know if theres a way to get the studio version of a song ,you know with all the tracks not just the 2 mastered tracks.I need them because someone needs help editiing a certain song we need to just edit a vocal part but we dont want to cut any of the music it's for a dance recital and cutting the whole music at that part would mess the beat up. If anyone knows anyway to do this please reply.....
Thanks in advance.....

[Epicureous]

There's not really a way to get an original multi-tracked version of any song... But there is way to edit out vocals.. There's plugins that can do that you just have to figure out the settings... Best way, google it...

[bennychico11]

if you want the original instrument tracks with no vocal, you can either
a) contact the publishing company that the artist belongs with and ask them for it (this will be very very costly)
or b) purchase a Karaoke version

using plugins and or "tricks" to remove the vocal is just going to make the song sound like crap and probably will not remove the vocal entirely.

[northsiderap]

Everything has a price...... Don't you?

[Atterion]

Originally Posted by bennychico11

using plugins and or "tricks" to remove the vocal is just going to make the song sound like crap and probably will not remove the vocal entirely.

Yup,
Most vocal removers use phase cancellation to remove the vocal, and usually remove a great deal of the frequency spectrum too, leaving you with a dull and/or thin sounding "Turd".

[johnnymegabyte]

what song ?

Depending on the popularity of the song, you might find it in karaoke CD+G format.
This will play in any CD player, but you would need a CD+G player to be able to view the graphics on a TV


Another alternative is to use MIDI.

[MadAudio]

Do a Google search for "backing tracks."

[rimshot86]

Thanks for the help I had no idea how to go about doing that,unfortunately this song isnt popular at all its for a dance recital someone was working on it's from grease lightning lol dont think it would be easy to find backing tracks for that Thanks for the help though we will have to find another way to edit it...

[Dags]

Originally Posted by Atterion

Yup,
Most vocal removers use phase cancellation to remove the vocal, and usually remove a great deal of the frequency spectrum too, leaving you with a dull and/or thin sounding "Turd".

To follow up with this thread, 'vocal removers' only really work if the vocal is panned absolutely centre with no effects wash. Given how many companies are offering software/hardware to do this, maybe the technology is getting smarter, but, as Atterion said, because you are doing selective frequency removal (to get rid of the vocals) you will also almost certainly remove other instruments within that bandwidth - I can't see how an algorithm can get around that problem.

Dags