need help fixing a low quality acapella

[Beat_Maker88]

Hi all.

I have an acapella for a song, but the beat is in the background,and its way to loud, i used noise reduction but it kills the quality hard, is there a way to save this verse?, rerecording is an issue so im trying to save what i already got, dynamics,equalization,parametric eq, anything to make the acapella sound decent.

oh and shoutout to Toker41 for neg repping me for nothing on the regular out of complete randomness, get a life son.

[Dags]

Originally Posted by Beat_Maker88

Hi all.

I have an acapella for a song, but the beat is in the background,and its way to loud, i used noise reduction but it kills the quality hard, is there a way to save this verse?, rerecording is an issue so im trying to save what i already got, dynamics,equalization,parametric eq, anything to make the acapella sound decent.

Unfortunately its virtually impossible to remove something that has been recorded as part of a previous mix.
Just a thought from way out of left field to try:
[NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL WORK BUT IF IT DOES LET ME KNOW AND I'LL RUN A LAP OF HONOUR AROUND THE OFFICE PUMPING MY FISTS IN THE AIR ]
If you have the original drum loop you could try inverting the original sample and playing it back under the section you want the drums removed. If the drums are identical (ie, haven't been effected or eq'd or anything) they stand a chance of cancelling eachother out.
You'll have to adjust the level of the inverted drum track to match the volume in the acapella track.
This tends to work better with mono material, but you never know!

Of course, the best way would be to re-record the vocal again

Dags

[Beat_Maker88]

oh i see,i shall do that right away and see how it goes,thanks a lot =)

[Dags]

Hey BM - how did you go?
Really curious to see if this inversion technique worked.

Dags