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superfox
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ACAPELLA HELP

Post by superfox » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:50 am

I an trying to grab an acapella from a song to remix it with my beat I have made in ableton 7. Does anyone have any suggestions, advice or tricks?

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Re: ACAPELLA HELP

Post by ollyb303 » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:50 am

Lots of previous posts about this one...

The best way (and really the only way!) is to find an a capella version of the song you want to use.

Failing this, if you can find an instrumental version, invert the phase and play it alongside the original. If the instrumental is exactly the same as the original (minus vocal) in theory it should cancel everything but the vocal - in practice, you'll have mixed results.

The last (and worst) option is to try and isolate the vocal using EQ - TBH this hardly ever works!

Have you considered re-recording the vocal using a different singer? You might have more success doing this if you can't find an a capella version of the song.
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