How to split up a professional CD?

[Blue Bear Sound]

Awwww, poor baby gettin' all mad.

This is the number one reason why kids shouldn't be allowed to use computers. The little pricks.

I can always tell when school lets out for the summer!


Hey Hyperspace.... MORON.... FUCKHEAD.... yeah - YOU.... over here!

Quite obviously, you've got a lot to learn about engineering... too bad you blew it for yourself at this site... you *might* have learned a lot.... OTOH - from your attitude and general lack of social skills, probably not....

Now run along and go back to playing with your Lego and stop bothering the nice people here........... dickwad...

 

[Light]

I love it when the trolls start going after the established professionals around here. I can't wait to see him call Blue Bear a middle schooler.

O.K., Hyped-on-smack, here you go. I have a B.F.A. in audio engineering, I have spent a number of years making my living as a recording engineer. You can eliminate whatever is panned to the center by inverting the polarity of one side of a stereo signal, and then summing the two sides to mono. This will usually eliminate vocals, snare drum, and kick drum. Depending on the engineer, it may also eliminate other things. It will NOT eliminate or even reduce anything which is paned off center (like most guitar tracks, among other things). Doing this MAY help you to do what you want, but I doubt it. As for what you asked in your first post,

What I want to do is manipulate Metallica's S and M album. I want to remove Metallica and keep only the orchestra.

This CAN NOT BE DONE. I understand that, at your age, you think you know everything, I was that way too, but when people who actually do and have done this for a living, or at the very least for much longer than you, try and tell you something, listen to it. Also, you will NEVER get the kind of help you so desperately need if you continue in a tone which is offensive and annoying.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Light]

Awww, poor wittle baby can't handle the internet? Poor baby.
Yet another reason children shouldn't be allowed on the internet!

He did it!!!

Blue Bear is one of the most respected and long term members of this board, and for very good reason. Read the board a little before you start randomly going after your elders.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[TexRoadkill]

Awwww, poor baby gettin' all mad.

This is the number one reason why kids shouldn't be allowed to use computers. The little pricks.

Most of us are over 30 and at least we know you can't split tracks off of a mixdown. Noobs crack me up.

 

[jake-owa]

"Wahhhh! Bobby Rockcock put too much salt in my soup...WAHHH!!!

Someone tell me how to get it out NOW or I'll throw a fit...(sniff)."

Good luck on your next question moron.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

What's the point of any retort?

His posts here pretty much speak for themselves...

 

[Light]

BTW, removing your posts (while appreciated) does not make you seem anymore knowledgeable.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Chibi Nappa]

OK, OK, OK.... I think he's had enough of an "initiation". We can tell him the truth now.

Yes, we've all been holding out on you. The answer is pretty simple actually. If the music was recorded on a digital workstation (as most music is these days), all you have to do is put it back in the digital editing domain. Sticking the CD in a PC will do that nicely. After you put it in your computer, start up Windows Media Player and hit "undo" (ctrl-z). This should undo the last action performed to the music, usually the mastering step. The second undo will then most likely un-mix it, and you'll have your individual tracks to drag into Cool Edit Pro. If a few more steps or edits were done along the way, just keep hitting undo until you get to the individual tracks. By the way, if you keep undoing back farther than that you can hear some pretty funny flubbed tracking takes. Give it a try.

Oh, and if you only have an mp3 you will need one additional undo in the beginning to undo the mp3 compression.

If the music was recorded and mixed analog, then you're screwed.

Hope that helps.

 

[sae]

I wish I knew that when there was a track that I really wanted.

*slaps head*
I should have know that...such an easy trick and I yet I never thought of it
*/stops slaping head*

 

[jake-owa]

Holy shit...are you serious? How come no one ever told me?

All this time I've been collecting original session hard drives for nothing...damn.

 

[sae]

You beat me to it.

 

[chrisharris]

It's always the stupid kids who accuse everyone of bieng stupid kids...


This guy is a class A moron ...

Wow...irony.

 

[jake-owa]

Wow...irony.

...the hell you tryin to say...I'm 30 now!

 

[FattMusiek]

Ten bucks says he deletes his account and makes a new one. He'll realize that this is one of the web's best homerecording resources and come crawling back.

 

[chrisharris]

...the hell you tryin to say...I'm 30 now!

JUUUUUUUuuuusssst keepin' ya' on your toes.

 

[chessrock]

This thread is some of the best shit I've seen in ages.


One of my top 5 for 2003, if not for all-time. Sheer classic.

 

[gordone]

Schools out ...for...summer!

My commute into work is quicker (no big yellow limos!), but I have to deal with morons online

Another problem with the "remove everything panned dead center" is that even if the vocal is panned dead center, the reverb is usually stereo, so you'll have a sort of phantom vocal track floating around.

One of my (recent) favorite recordings is a solo recording of Simon and Garfunkel doing Sound of Silence, I forgot where the guitar is in the stereo field, but each vocal track is panned fully to the left/right, so you can silence Simon by panning to one side, or silence Garfunkel by panning to the other side. A great lesson in some great vocal harmony.

 

[moley]

Yes, we've all been holding out on you. The answer is pretty simple actually. If the music was recorded on a digital workstation (as most music is these days), all you have to do is put it back in the digital editing domain. Sticking the CD in a PC will do that nicely. After you put it in your computer, start up Windows Media Player and hit "undo" (ctrl-z). This should undo the last action performed to the music, usually the mastering step. The second undo will then most likely un-mix it, and you'll have your individual tracks to drag into Cool Edit Pro. If a few more steps or edits were done along the way, just keep hitting undo until you get to the individual tracks. By the way, if you keep undoing back farther than that you can hear some pretty funny flubbed tracking takes. Give it a try

LMFAO!!

 

[Bass Master "K"]

Hey HyperSpace, don't listen to these guys. They're just gear snobs that don't want you to know how easy it is to be able to pull parts off a CD. Here's how you do it:

1) Load the song as a wave file or mp3 into your computers hard drive.

2) Get a strong and powerful magnet, the horseshoe type work the best.

3) Put the magnet up to the outside of your CPU as close to the location of your hard drive as possible. Give it a wiggle right there for 10 seconds or so. This will remove the vocals.

4) Now go to the other side of the CPU, and still as close to the hard drive as you can get, put the magnet there and give it another wiggle for 5 seconds. If done properly this will remove the guitars.

5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 to remove the bass and drums, respectively.

I sometimes find small circles work better than the wiggle. Play with it to find what works best for you.

Good luck.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Dammit 'K......

...you just HAD to go and tell him, didn't ya.......... some people just can't keep their fool mouth shut!