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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