Audio Editing Program??

[GlassDaddy90]

I am looking for an audio editing program that will allow me to take a song and rip the speech out, leaving only the music. Does anyone know of any programs that do this particularly well, or even at all? Thanks!!!

 

[dakels]

You cannot seperate recorded tracks from each other once they are combined for a final song. Studios record in tracks, each intrument or sections of intruments and different channels will be recorded as individual tracks. Then vocals can be laid down on seperate tracks as well. Then added into the prerecorded intruments tracks. Then all those tracks get flattened into a final track for album or CD or whatever. Once it is flattened out onto one track, it's nearly impossible to seperate tracks again unless they are just in different isolated audio playback channels or the range and pitch is so different the other parts like intruments.

The only real way to get clean original vocal audio out of a a final song, is to get the original tracks from the recording studio. You'll have to usually have some sort of recording deal with the recording studio to get seperate tracks unless they released it publicly like some songs will release an intrumental version or audio acapella track on a B side or something. You see it alot in singles. The B side may have an intrumental.

There is no system or program currently that I know of that can cleanly and accurately remove vocal from finished musical song. Again, some circumstances like if the recording has tracks isolated in channels. Thats just a matter of balance and isolating a channel. You can hear it in surround sound very well if you go from each different speaker. Unless the recording studio released the original tracks, then I'm afradi theres not a whole lot you can do. Some great engineers can get close to seperating vocals from a recording but most of the times its too much work and mediocre results.

 

[igowerf]

At most, you can mess with equalizer settings to make the voices sound softer.

 

[GlassDaddy90]

Thanks for the info guys!

 

[dakels]

You're welcome and depending on what you want to pull from and for what reason, if you play with the levels and balances, some music, especially older rock stuff can be seperated fairly well, although you usually won't get just the vocals. It's usually vocals with an intrument or 2 still heard. The most obvious is probably just moving your balance around on an old Beatles or Bowie. They loved to seperate their music in stereo channels. Again, this easy method won't usually net you clean vocals but it works well to isolate some parts which can come in handy for remixing (For your own personal use) and also isolating instrument or vocal tracks to hear them better (Like for me when I play guitar or drums).

 

[Bglad]

Dakels is on the money but...
Some amazing results can be had through a combination of eq, compression of the frequency range of the vocals, and expansion of the remaining band so that it more fully hides the compressed bands.

But... I don't know of any computer based tools short of a full blown protools system (about $12,000) that are capable of doing it as well as a good old fashioned mixing board with plenty of good outboard gear AND although you may "remove the vocals", in reality you will have a very different sounding track when you are done.