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What is the best way to go about extracting an acapella from a track?

I understand the technique of playing the original with the instrumental and reversing the polarity of the instrumental to cancel out all frequencies except the vocal. But what if you don't have the instrumental?

Is there any software that can extract a vocal? Any other techniques to consider?


Cheers!

It's kind of like extracting salt from your dinner.

How about you remove the vocals first to create your own instrumental version?

I think I tried it once this way but I dont remember if it worked.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/fa ... ls&lang=en

Bass_Jacka wrote:What is the best way to go about extracting an acapella from a track?

Short answer, there isn't one.

Bass_Jacka wrote:I understand the technique of playing the original with the instrumental and reversing the polarity of the instrumental to cancel out all frequencies except the vocal. But what if you don't have the instrumental?

Only works if you have the instrumental, and I've yet to hear what I'd consider a 'good' acapella obtained using this technique.

Bass_Jacka wrote:Is there any software that can extract a vocal? Any other techniques to consider?

Melodyne in theory should be able to isolate the vocal element of a tune and extract it that way

Thanks for the replies!

AxeD wrote:It's kind of like extracting salt from your dinner.

Good analogy lol, kinda puts it into perspective!

wub wrote:Melodyne in theory should be able to isolate the vocal element of a tune and extract it that way

I've never really used Melodyne - I know it's pretty decent and versatile, but seems too complicated to me.


In that case, does anyone have an acapella for Ella Henderson - Glow?

Bass_Jacka wrote:

wub wrote:Melodyne in theory should be able to isolate the vocal element of a tune and extract it that way

I've never really used Melodyne - I know it's pretty decent and versatile, but seems too complicated to me.

These videos go through it pretty well.

AxeD wrote:It's kind of like extracting salt from your dinner.

Or like having a + b = c, and trying to guess "b" while only having "c".

I always ask myself the perfectly simple question what a lot of people seem to forget to ask themselves when making music.


Does the track really need it? I feel vocals are not used correctly in 90% of bass music, if you're just going to slap a 'pella over a beat, why don't you just re sing/rap it yourself?

Virtual DJ can extract vocals.

Use win rar to extract the accapella from the archive

even the best DIY acapellas suck

there's really no way of making an acapella version

NinjaEdit wrote:Virtual DJ can extract vocals.

badly

Technology is getting scarily better, things like melodyne DNA etc are pushing things so far that hopefully soon we won't have this problem but for the time being these are never going to sound that great unless you have access to the original project files.

I tried extracting the vocals from Burial - Archangel and nothing really worked including Melodyne. Like Ledge said, the best approach is probably to sing it yourself and fix with Melodyne and in that case you might as well write your own line.

lol why didn't you just get the vocals from the original Ray J tune and process them the same way he did?

It was just an exercise.

Fair enough, was just wondering haha.

There are two choices -

spend a long time trying to extract with mainly poor results...

or, find the acapella.


If you can't find the acapella - you have to ask yourself, do you REALLY need it?

Mad_EP wrote:There are two choices -

spend a long time trying to extract with mainly poor results...

or, find the acapella.


If you can't find the acapella - you have to ask yourself, do you REALLY need it?

this

phase cancellation is overrated massively