https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:25:10 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364437 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:00:27 +0000
What software have you access to...and what software was used on those input tracks?

Cat]]> In The Studio Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364437 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364383 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:14:59 +0000
Anyway, I don't think the final studio mixes are seperated by any frequency range since they all over lap and if you start cutting off frequencies from instruments I would imagine it wouldn't sound to good.

There is software out there that claims to remove the vocals and some work better than others, but you almost always will still hear some vocal bleed through and you will definitely be cutting other frequencies out there's no way to just extract the vocals.]]> In The Studio cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364383 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364314 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 06:51:13 +0000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FjkqtK67o

(listen closely, and you can hear bits of the music in the last phrases)

Do a search for "remove vocals from a song" on your favorite search engine. Although there are plenty of software gizmos on the market, I remember reading online about the actual method to do it. If you have good-enough software for recording/sequencing/mixing/whatever, it should be possible to do. Let your fingers do the surfing, and remember copyright laws :D I remember seeing a magazine ad in the 1980's for a device or cassette tape (!) that did this, so it must be possible to do this in the analog world.

As was previously said, you're going to remove part of the instrumental sounds when doing it, because you will be canceling out the frequencies shared by the vocals. However, I would think a professional mix would try to separate the various instruments (including voice) by frequency range to keep the track from being muddy, right???]]> In The Studio Chris! https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364314 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364284 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:29:09 +0000
Are you doing this to practice your singing or something?

Not sure what you are doing but you could look into karaoke versions of the songs you are interested in. If they are avalable then those won't have any vocals.

Also if you check Powertabs and GuitarPro (I think that's the name) they are MIDI but they are pretty good you can use that they don't have vocals.]]> In The Studio cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364284 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364283 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:35:00 +0000 In order to attempt to separate them, you need to remove the frequencies of the vocals without removing other things.
Which is impossible, because vocals, guitars, keyboards, and even some of the drums ALL have some frequencies that overlap.
Ya can't remove one without affecting the other.

You can reduce the obviousness of the vocal, but it won't go completely, and it'll take out a lot of other instruments with it.]]> In The Studio kent_eh https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364283 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364229 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:44:02 +0000 In The Studio dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364229 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364219 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:29:24 +0000
Do you know of a way? I think I've heard of software that attempts to do it not sure how good of a job it does.]]> In The Studio cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-364219 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-40874 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:22:44 +0000
I'm very uninformed when it comes to recording and audio engineering.

My question is - when you want get an instrumental mix from a song that already has vocals in it- is it just a simple a process of taking out the vocal track? Or is it more complicated than that?
Do you have to raise the level of the entire instrumentation b/c it was lowered in the original mix with the vocals,
so that the vocals would take center place?

How simple or complicated is the process?]]> In The Studio dennett340 https://guitarnoise.forum/in-the-studio-in-the-studio/getting-good-instrumental-mixes-from-tracks-with-vocals/#post-40874