Help editing just vocals

tekniks · Post by **tekniks** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:51 am

Can anyone tell me how to edit just vocals from a wav or mp3 track. Let me explain what i am trying to do, incase someone knows an easier way.
I am trying to take the vocals from a song and change it just enough to make it sound as if someone different is singing. Then i want to take that and play it right along with the normal track so it sounds like there are two different people singing the same song at the same time.

ifihadaninja · Post by **ifihadaninja** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:15 am

this is a long shot...but do you think that maybe editing one track. then laying that over the other track, that the unedited track MIGHT over power the other track, i dunno what im talking about, but maybe the lyrics will be more noticable than the instruments.....doesnt make sense does it? it does to me....

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:18 am

I don't think there is any way really, short of getting a cappella tracks.

But if you do find out, please let me know. It'd be very helpful for my audio mashing projects.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:55 pm

ifihadaninja - your sooooooo close to getting it right; you won't believe
how close you actually are in solving this problem ^______^

In the Recording Studios of today, each channel ( track ) is out-of-phase to each
other an that being out-of-phase is how AC_5 and AC_6 encodes are
made possible from a Stereo Recording. By taking the Left Channel, and slowly
making the Right Channel out-of-phase, you can slowly erase -or- isolate any
sound, voice or drums from ANY STEREO recording. The Method for doing
such a thing is called "Roto-Blending" and the concept was developed in the
1970's [ anyone remember Quadrophonic CD-4 ]

Its not a new solution, roto-blend, its just a forgotten science - being capitalized
by Sound Marketeering today. Most people do not remember the 1978 November
issue of Popular Electronic's that had "the curcuit schematics" for doing it.
And, no! there was never a software package that contained this design

Roto-blend is what you need and is the process that you are discribing.

The_Night_Saber · Post by **The_Night_Saber** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:21 pm

ok so how would u go about making the Right Channel out-of-phase with the left one? coz i've always wanted to no how to take vocals from a track.
the only thing i can do is remove most of the vocals from my tracks but doing that also means i lose some of the instrument sounds and even then in some tracks u can slighty hear the vocals.