[dnb-prod] RE: Vocals

[Terry Morgan]

High Contrast uses a lot of acapella samples but I have no idea where he 
gets them from.  I've got about 150 acapellas downloaded off various places 
and about 2% are useable.  A big part of it is having the "ear" to hear 
parts that would be suitable. As for taking vocals from full tunes, I think 
that topic's been done to death but to recap: It's practically impossible to 
lift vocals cleanly from a tune without frequencies from other instruments 
creeping in. There are plugins which claim to do this by removing elements 
of a tune panned left and right on the assumption that the vocals are panned 
dead centre. This of course is not always the case and quite often drums and 
bass are also panned centre so the results of these plugins are "dodgy" to 
say the least. However, with some heavy processing you could get something 
useable.

Quite a few of the soulful tracks I've heard recently have quite obviously 
used session singers and this probably the way to go if at all possible.

Otherwise, dig deep on kazaa and soulseek for those acapellas. Also, there 
are ftp servers chocked full of the things luking around, but getting access 
to them is easy said than done.






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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:26:39 -0000

This probably isn't much help, but when I was working in a studio, a good 
few years back, the few people that came in to do d'n'b/jungle tracks would 
get a vocalist to do a shed loads of takes, with different vocals and 
improvising.  Then it would be cut up, sometimes using next to nothing.  
One approach could be to put an add out, for a singer, and even if they're 
not fantastic, with enough takes, and an editing package (Wavelab, etc), 
you're bound to be able to get something usable.

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From: Pranev Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 February 2003 10:06
To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List
Subject: [dnb-prod] Vocals


been searching for answers for a while on this topic. i think im right in 
saying that many producers out there dont get vocalists just to sing one or 
2 lines in there tunes.

however , vocals often give  a great effect (for those of you into the 
soulful, funky side of d+b). ive tried sampling vocals from obscure records 
but you often end up with those instruments and drums etc from the other 
tune interferring in your tune.

also tried sampling acapellas, but these are quite rare and therefore 
doesnt give you much option. also tried taking one or 2 liners out of 
movies but its more speech than singing.

help

Veritas

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