Anybody good with audio editing?

[Witness]

I need to remove the lyrics to a song and just leave the beat, does anybody here know how to do this?

[Lincoln]

Talk to Dave. He's the audio guy.

[Tex]

Dave is your man, indeed.

He is still at the studio I think...probably will be on later.

[Witness]

Thanks guys , I just sent him a PM, hopefully he will help me out.

[themanofthedark]

there is software for this in best buy, i do believe.

it was rather cheap, i think, not more than $15

[Alexander]

I need to remove the lyrics to a song and just leave the beat, does anybody here know how to do this?

It can be done in audacity. Although it's not a "remove lyrics" button, it's done manually.

[Witness]

Im not good with this things, Im gonna mess it up.

[Witness]

I just tried a small tutorial on youtube and it didnt work, anybody have a legit guide for removing the vocals from a song?

[iCafe]

give me the song name and artist

[psylichon]

Sorry, I snoozed on this one.

Removing vocals is an inexact science. When you're working with a stereo mix (i.e. an MP3 or CD rip), all you can really do is phase tricks to remove the vocal. There is a process called "A-B monitoring" that will essentially remove anything panned directly up the middle (which usually includes the vocal). The problem is it also removes other important things usually panned up the middle, like the kick, snare, and bass. That plus the fact that vocals often have stereo delays and reverb processing that doesn't cancel out, and you're often left with a swimmy mess of a song with creepy space vocals still there.

Let me know what track in particular you want to do this to, and I'll let you know how feasible it is.

[Witness]

Dont worry about it Dave , I wanted to try these two.

One-Metallica
She Can Get It- DJ Laz

I think One would be much easier.

[iCafe]

Dont worry about it Dave , I wanted to try these two.

One-Metallica




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoM6hG-uZo

[Witness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoM6hG-uZo

Thanks a lot, but I cant really download it , he says there is no download link. Im looking for an mp3 of it. Thanks for using your time to help me though.

[psylichon]

Thanks a lot, but I cant really download it , he says there is no download link. Im looking for an mp3 of it. Thanks for using your time to help me though.

http://www.vidtomp3.com/

I tried the phase thing. It sounds dookie. Do that^^^

[Witness]

Thanks Dave , I'll try that right now.

[Witness]

Alright I got the mp3 , now I just need to delete the first 19 seconds of the song and Im done. Can you do this easily?

[psylichon]

Alright I got the mp3 , now I just need to delete the first 19 seconds of the song and Im done. Can you do this easily?

I've never done it (because I use audio editing software for this), but supposedly you can do this through iTunes alone.

Get info on the track in iTunes and go to the "Options" tab. There you can set start and end times. Then if you rightclick and "Create MP3 version" (MP3 must be set as your encoder in importing options in preferences), the MP3 iTunes creates should honor the start and stop times you defined.

Make sense?

[Witness]

Wow , I never knew about that feature on itunes, thanks a lot for all the help.

[psylichon]

No problem. If I can't help sort this one for you, what good am I? ;)

[kisstine]

No problem. If I can't help sort this one for you, what good am I? ;)

Well.. you do bring that whole easy-on-the-eyes thing to the table. :wink: