You can't [yet] rip vocals out of a mix thats
already made, you can only EQ out dominant bass, or high pitch sounds. You
can't [yet] cut out the mid range must, because the your vocals will sound
muted. You cannot do any of that without fukeing up the sound of the acapella
you desire so much, but there are other options....Check out the remixes at:
"http://www.arktikos.com/bjork",
for example;
We have done a lot of study on this for the Bjork
Remix web site we work on. There are over a thousand remixes there, [lots by
me] that use various techniques for acapella sampling, sometimes, we cut the
full tracks into segments and sample them aroungd the vocals, cutting out
parts with no voice in them. Then you use your instrumental mix track to
overpower the sounds in the cuts, check out my remix of "AURORA" the {RIPSB
mix} for this. It comes out a little noisy, but that noise can add a cool
ambience at times. The Jungle rhythm of my instrumental track overpowers
almost all of the other sounds from the original track.
Sometimes a pure acapella track can be used in
the same way and cut into segments and re-arranged to remix the song in a
Hip-Hop style, like my remix of "OXYGEN" [not the silver seas remix, the other
one]. If you listen to the original songs by Bjork for these, you will see how
radical the change is, the tracks that are remixed here are the uncut songs
rom her full albums, Bjork never releases Acapellas, until recently, the only
acapella available was of her song "Hidden Place" from her Album
Vespertine.
Someone on the site had discovered a new method
though for Dolby 5.1 recordings lately. They found that the center channel
signal from a dolby 5.1 recording oftenly only had the singer's voice in an
acapella [maybe some sound accents] but mostly just a dedicated acapella
track. They had isolated the vocals and pulled them from that channel of the
mix and began creating remixes with those vocals. If you need vocals from a
5.1 recording, you might want to check this method out further. this
would
also be able to be used for pulling samples out of original 5.1 recordings as
well, as different sounds are placed on different speakers for surround sound
ambience.
Otherwise, you are just left with working with
simple acapella tracks, they often have ghost signals in them of the original
beats so that you can still calculate the BPM of the acapella track on
studio & Dj equipment, and that makes it easier for the sound engineer to
match up with other stuff later on. If the original beat is ghosted into the
acapella, don't worry, just EQ it out by boosting the right areas of your
remix instrumental track. I do this all the time. For more questions, please
ask, you can also find remixes of other artist's songs that I have made in
AudioGalaxy.
Well, now that I've written a book, I gotta
get back to work....Peace out!!!...............>Winterman [Winternett KRU
2002/Club Heaven&Hell]
Representin Junglist Science in the US,
Washington
DC>>>>http://www.mp3.com/winterman
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