vocal extraction?

[The Chill Fox]

Hey all! I've been wanting to do a remix for a song and I want the vocals to be extracted. I've tried on audacity but sometimes you still hear the instruments and at times when it does work, it has low quality. Any good tips for vocal extraction?

Thanks

[Eino]

It may be easier to find an acapella of your song.
Like this one.
https://soundcloud.com/calvinharris/cal ... -your-love

[musikbear]

an other method exists, but you need to find a karaoke-version of the track
This method works through 'subtractional' noise reduction.
Many sound-editing programs has an option for subtraction of a noise-profile. What you do is to use the whole karaoke-spectrum as noise, and subtract this from the 'full-track'. If you have a perfect match of the instrumentation, you will end up with a clean vocal.
This vocal will however have the wave-profile subtracted, and can have effects like flanger or autotune, as a result of this.

[The Chill Fox]

@ Eino, can't find an acapella for it.

@Musikbear when finding a karaoke version of the track, it only gives me the background music instead of the vocals themselves. I want to have the vocals then start over with the instruments. (Planning to make a chiptune version of it, maybe?)

[StakeoutPunch]

@Musikbear when finding a karaoke version of the track, it only gives me the background music instead of the vocals themselves. I want to have the vocals then start over with the instruments. (Planning to make a chiptune version of it, maybe?)

That is his point. It is called phase cancellation and is used to extract the vocals by inverting the instrumental version and applying it to the original song. The "negative" (inverted) instrumental track will subtract its sound from the original song, leaving just the vocals in the output file.

See this link: http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2010/06/ ... cellation/

The purpose of that article is removing vocals, but the concept of phase cancellation applies (also, if you can successfully cancel out the vocals, you can then use the instrumental track you made to isolate the vocals).

[brandystarbrite]

What song are you Remixing Tweedie Bird?