Sampling a voice
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
Clever use of EQ ?
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- KVRAF
- 4314 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
Why people always ask that question? Can you see behind objects in a photography? No, so why would you be able to remove all the elements in a tune & just keep the voice without cutting in the voice itself?!
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- KVRAF
- 3944 posts since 7 May, 2004 from behind his workbench
there was a FFT based voice extractor somewhere around here didnt remember the name but it was cool 
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
It can be done, but you need specific conditions. If you have 2 versions of a song, one instrumental and one with the vocal track and both were identical in every other way, you can invert the phase of the instrumental and when played back in sync it cancels out the music on the full version leaving you with an isolated vocal.
This, of course, is a simplistic description and you need a good audio editor and of course, the two identical tracks, one with vocals and one without.
It is a trick used by the guys who do mash ups so they can extract a vocal track to be used on top of a different piece of music.
In the olden days, clever use of EQ could isolate the vocal frequencies but not extremely successfully. Some HiFi EQ's had a "karaoke" setting that tried to eq the vocal track out, but it was hardly successful.
But it is a very difficult thing to do successfully without the master tapes. And you probably don't have those
This, of course, is a simplistic description and you need a good audio editor and of course, the two identical tracks, one with vocals and one without.
It is a trick used by the guys who do mash ups so they can extract a vocal track to be used on top of a different piece of music.
In the olden days, clever use of EQ could isolate the vocal frequencies but not extremely successfully. Some HiFi EQ's had a "karaoke" setting that tried to eq the vocal track out, but it was hardly successful.
But it is a very difficult thing to do successfully without the master tapes. And you probably don't have those