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Hey guys and girls... I need help on finding a vocal acapellas like this guy used in his tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZD9WgBXsg

He includes the link where he got it from... Its just I don't want to spend $30.00 on it... So I was wondering if anyone knew vocals like this... Or awesome vocals to work with and chop... (Looking for free ones)
Thank you

Check Loopmasters theres some cheaper sample packs, and thats if you want pristinely recorded samples, you could just rip some vocals off a song.

^ this

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Dillon Francis sampled the voice from Adam Levines Heart Stereo song or whatever.

If you're looking to chop it up and repitch..it shouldn't matter where you get it from.

You can find acapellas anywhere and everywhere. As long as you chop, pitch and screw the vocals enough no one will probably guess the source and they should sound awesome

Hahaa weird to see somebody else posting my tutorial. No seriously mate, just download some acapellas that have the type of voice your looking for and totally cut them up. You don't have to use a Loopmasters sample pack. And if you are going to buy something, you can use the discount code in my videos to get 10% discount on Loopmasters, that'll save you something at least.

But honestly I would just rip any acapella that I could find and that sounds good. I've made a track once using vocals from the most famous track by Jason Derulo (got the acapella from his remix contest) and nobody ever noticed it.

ARTFX wrote:Hahaa weird to see somebody else posting my tutorial. No seriously mate, just download some acapellas that have the type of voice your looking for and totally cut them up. You don't have to use a Loopmasters sample pack. And if you are going to buy something, you can use the discount code in my videos to get 10% discount on Loopmasters, that'll save you something at least.

But honestly I would just rip any acapella that I could find and that sounds good. I've made a track once using vocals from the most famous track by Jason Derulo (got the acapella from his remix contest) and nobody ever noticed it.

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There's a ton of sites that host bootleg acapellas. Not gonna link cause I*m pretty sure they violate copyright or whatever but with google and half a brain you can find them. Quality varies but a lot of them are studio quality, just skip the DIY's.

Another option would be to check out remixcomps.com or similar and find a remix competition with a vocal stem.

How are you guys jacking vocals from songs. Whenever I've tried to use only the vocals from a tune, I try and EQ out everything else and it still sounds like pig shit.

I usually just make my own now.

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You can basically take any studio acapella and make a twist of your own. Pitching, changing the formant, even time stretching, reversing could avoid issues with the original artist, then have at er!

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i record direct from youtube into ableton nowadays - theres loads of studio acapellas on there, the youtube quality doesn't really matter if your going to pitch/reverse/chop/effect them up to hell anyway. i personally quite like youtube compression anyways sometimes. just use the stereo mix option as your default soundcard input device, assign to a track and your ready to steal lots of dumb pop vocals.

Yea but how are you EQ'ing the instruments out of the vocals from songs. Surely Stereo Mix does not accomplish this.

Dustwyrm wrote:Yea but how are you EQ'ing the instruments out of the vocals from songs. Surely Stereo Mix does not accomplish this.

You have to have an instrumental of the song, along with the original (both uncompressed formats ie wav or direct from cd).
Then you have to line up the instrumental and normal version of the song up perfectly together.
Next flip the phase on the instrumental and through the magic of phase cancellation you should be left with a perfect acapella.
Sounds great in theory, but rarely does it work perfectly and often leaves some artifacts from instruments and such.

deadly habit wrote:

Dustwyrm wrote:Yea but how are you EQ'ing the instruments out of the vocals from songs. Surely Stereo Mix does not accomplish this.

You have to have an instrumental of the song, along with the original (both uncompressed formats ie wav or direct from cd).
Then you have to line up the instrumental and normal version of the song up perfectly together.
Next flip the phase on the instrumental and through the magic of phase cancellation you should be left with a perfect acapella.
Sounds great in theory, but rarely does it work perfectly and often leaves some artifacts from instruments and such.

This. It's a dark art though. The point being the instrumental has to EXACTLY the same as the full track, that is, the full track has to essentially be the instrumental track, with the vocal track applied. So if you have both waveforms, line them up and phase invert the instrumental, the aspect of the overall waveforms comprising the instrumentals will cancel each other out due to phase cancellation. So the output will be zero gained, leaving the difference behind, which would be the vocals waveform. It's theoretically sound and practically possible, it's just that it can only be done in specific cases where you have exactly what's needed to pull it off.

^ nah i meant theres loads of studio acapellas on youtube with just bare vocals that you can sample using stereo mix and record direct into your DAW