High Contrast is a don in d+b now. i guess that since he's in the industry he can get a hold of acapellas through various contacts
Veritas
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>Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Vocals
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:44:14 +0000
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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>>Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Vocals
>>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:26:39 -0000
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>>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.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Pranev Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: 26 February 2003 10:06
>>To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List
>>Subject: [dnb-prod] Vocals
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>>
>>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.
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>>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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