Good morning andré and listers, The answer to your question is yes because much of that earlier rock and roll, adult pop, and even country music has been digitally remastered several years ago, and when originally recorded it was done on separate tape machines or with multi-track overdubbing technology. By the way, there are karaoke services online that have already removed the vocal solo tracks and have them available for purchase on a subscription basis. I haven't researched this myself, but let Google be your friend and help you find one if you would like to consider going that route. Have a good day and happy karaoke singing to you.
Best regards, Rob "Jayhawk" Tabor -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:07 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: removing vocal from music Rob Thanx very interesting. My question is then this: Would you then be able to do the same kind of things with arrangements recorded in the 50s or 60s? Imagine being able to sing along with the Jordanaires or the Anita Curr singers!! I suppose not! -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Rob Tabor Sent: 16 May 2013 05:50 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: removing vocal from music Good evening André, Roger and list, Roger is correct in that pretty much all professionally produced CD's and the new vinyls are recorded in a multi-track format. As to recording and editing software, there are several audio packages that offer multi-track capabilities. Some of these applications include Audacity which is a free download, Reaper, which is a very moderately priced package which costs in the $35 to $40 range, and Sonar, which is a high end multi-track sound editor which is often used by professional recording studios. To give equal coverage to avid Mac users, there are Mac-based multi-track editors as well. I believe one of these is called Cakewalk and Studio Garage Band or something simllar to that also. About all of these sound editors will enable the user to solo individual tracks or listen to the full mix. I provide this explanation as I think it makes it easier to envision that eliminating specified tracks is by no means a technically difficult task. So happy karaoke time. Best regards, Rob Tabor -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of roger.so...@virgin.net Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:24 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: removing vocal from music The guy I knew never seemed to have any problems. So maybe they all are done that way when recorded professionally. Roger -----Original Message----- From: André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:12 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: removing vocal from music Interesting. But that will then only work for music which is specifically recorded in that way? Andre -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of roger.so...@virgin.net Sent: 15 May 2013 10:07 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: removing vocal from music A friend, before he died, make his living singing with a portable karaoke machine and he used the type of software you describe to strip the vocals off of CD's. I understand the CD's have the vocals in a different track to the music so it is relatively easy for software to achieve this. Remember a lot of music CD's are compiled with each instrument, sound effect and vocal being on a different track and synchronised and put together for the finished result. Roger -----Original Message----- From: André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:54 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: removing vocal from music Hi all I’m just curious. On the internet I see software advertised that is supposed to be able to remove the vocals from a track so that you can use it for karaoke. I must confess I am rather sceptical about these claims? But is this actually possible? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
