acapellas

[nosssweat]

hey guys wondering if any of you can do some acapellas? I have checked all over for the song i want them from but i cant find a file with it so i was wondering if i could make a request? thanks.

[mmmsure]

to take vocals from a track can be a bit of a headache and can usually never be done 100% perfect.. its all good to practise by trying though?

[nosssweat]

well im not really sure about how to about practicing it though. i use ableton 7 and i know the song i want the acapellas too, and ive talked to a dj i know and he said its kinda hard to do with ableton. Im def open minded on learning how but thats one thing im not really sure where to even start at. eh not trying to sound like a nub leecher.

[shoot2stun]

DIY accapellas are tricky business...and sometimes impossible...

[Dub_Fiend]

As a rule of thumb, unless there's a leaked acapella it's pretty hard to get a clean DIY one...

You basically take a copy of the original track and then invert the phase of the left stereo channel (doable in Adobe Audition or Audacity if you get a free plugin) which removes all of the signals outside of the centre (the vocals in a track aren't always going to be in the centre but generally that's where you'll find them which is why this method typically works). From there, it's just a lot of tweaking on the EQ and other things but unless you can get a stereo .wav of the original (which you can't really) then you'll always have some random artifacts left over from the MP3 compression so it won't sound perfect. That said, as long as you can mask the other sounds with stuff from your song (or you don't mind having a little bit of drums or whatever left over) then it's perfectly usable

Hope this helps!


Dub Fiend

[DJ Crackle]

You basically take a copy of the original track and then invert the phase of the left stereo channel (doable in Adobe Audition or Audacity if you get a free plugin) which removes all of the signals outside of the centre (the vocals in a track aren't always going to be in the centre but generally that's where you'll find them which is why this method typically works).

That's pretty cool, I've never heard of that. Never really jumped much into making acapellas myself, unless it was a simple instrumental on original phase inversion. Do you have any names of any plugins from Audacity that would do that? I'm mildly interested in trying this.