Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question
Posted by Milton on 5/07/08
On 5/07/08, PK-5 music teacher wrote: > Yes, you're right...I had to select a part of the file to get those > menus lit up. > > New question...should I convert an mp3 to wav before trying to > remove the vocals? I noticed no difference once I applied Center Pan > removal or inverting. Although one time I got a little headway with > reverse amplify. > If you have the original CD, use Windows Media Player or other players that will let you "rip" the track as a .wav file, since .mp3 is a lossy compression, especially losing the high frequencies that give clarity and definition to a track. If you're starting with mp3 then wait until you have the track ready to burn before exporting to WAV. Not all songs are recorded in such a way that the vocals CAN be removed. This only works if the vocals are panned center, an equal amount of vocal in both left and right channels, and with little or no reverb. If the vocals are panned either left or right then mixing the phase inverted left and right tracks won't cancel the vocals since there is more vocal in one side than the other; only equal amplitude phase inverted signals cancel out. Reverb creates unequal amounts left and right of the reverberations of the original sound so the reverberations themselves do not cancel out.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Audacity, my new best friend, 5/04/08, by Will.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend, 5/04/08, by BW.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend, 5/04/08, by Rachel/CA.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend, 5/05/08, by Will.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend, 5/06/08, by c.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question, 5/06/08, by PK-5 music teacher.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question, 5/07/08, by Milton.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question, 5/07/08, by PK-5 music teacher.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question, 5/07/08, by Milton.
- Re: Audacity, my new best friend--question, 5/08/08, by BW.
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