Vocal Removing

[Soundscaper]

Does anyone know of a good plug-in that will remove vocals from a mastered CD?

 

[j]

i don't know...but you could try a search on hitsquad.com or shareware music machine....look for karaoke stuff, if all else fails...good luck.

 

[DavidK]

check out the Thompson Vocal Eliminator, it is hardware. I dont have an address.

 

[DavidK]

oh wait, I do http://www.ltsound.com/

 

[pglewis]

I think most vocal removal stuff simplely reverses the phase of one channel thus removing anything in the center. Since vocals are generally dead center, bye-bye lead vocs... but also anything else that was in the center.

You can easily do the same with any decent audio editor. Reverse the phase of the left or right channel then sum everything to mono.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Or simply a phase-inverted cable at the console on one channel - both channels panned center, same fader level - the result is a mono track with all center information wiped... leaving all the stereo effect leakage, and all non-center-panned info intact.

Bruce

 

[Pier Calacino]

Does any one know if the Thomsen vocal Eliminator (VE-4) uses a high end mic pre ?

You would think for that much money, it better have one hell of a mic pre !

I have emailed LT Sound several times, with no reply in months!

 

[music4all]

Adobe Audition ver. 1.5 can remove/extract or at least eliminate most of the vocal part off the audio track, but still retain excellent quality of the original.

Try it!

Cheers,

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

...can remove/extract or at least eliminate most of the vocal part off the audio track, but still retain excellent quality of the original.

Removing the center-channel information removes a good deal of the meat of a signal (bass, vocals, kick, snare).... leaving not much left of the original to sound good. It is also song-dependent, since not all songs are mixed the same way, how much info gets lost will vary, as will how good the remaining mix will sound.

 

[Tukkis]

Adobe Audition ver. 1.5 can remove/extract or at least eliminate most of the vocal part off the audio track, but still retain excellent quality of the original.

Yeah Audition is one of the better ones out there in software form because it allows you to specify a certain freq range. So you can still keep some of the centre panned low end of the bass guitar and kick drum and remove the majority of the main vocal. There's also parameters that allow how much of the centre gets removed (in dB) and the blending.

Removing the center-channel information removes a good deal of the meat of a signal (bass, vocals, kick, snare).... leaving not much left of the original to sound good. It is also song-dependent, since not all songs are mixed the same way, how much info gets lost will vary, as will how good the remaining mix will sound.

Yep totally true. I've noticed rock songs and big band music usually work the best for vocal removal because they have lots of wide panning. Acoustic songs where the piano and acoustic are usually panned down the middle with the vocal are difficult to get right. You can only do so much.

Tukkis

 

[Ethan Winer]

SS,

> Does anyone know of a good plug-in that will remove vocals from a mastered CD? <

For the complete story, and instructions to do this yourself in any decent audio editor program, see The truth about vocal eliminators. It's the 12th item in the list on my Articles page:

www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html

--Ethan