REMOVING VOCALS FROM A SAMPLE

[dizzove]

How do you take the vocals out of a sample ? I've read that you make the sample into 2 mono tracks in protools and invert one then add a 7 band eq and to it and asjust the hpf and lpf until it is clean. But this doesn't work for me. Does someone else have another method that will work for me ? I'm sampling in my mpc200xl and using protools 6.9.2 OSX on Digi 002.....
Thanks

[bigvernthearkitekt]

"I've read that you make the sample into 2 mono tracks in protools and invert one then add a 7 band eq and to it and asjust the hpf and lpf until it is clean. But this doesn't work for me."

It will depend on where the vocal is in the stereo field for the trick you were referring to to work. The only step you were missing is to then convert the file to mono.
So, do exactly what you said, invert one of the channels (right or left) of the stereo sample, then mix the channel you didn't invert and the one you did to mono, it will remove center material. Really it will depend on the where everything is in the stereo field of the sample and every sample is different.

Eq-ing out mid frequencies is another option.
There are plug ins that attempt to remove vocals, none of them will completely remove all traces of the vocal every time, so eqing will still be necessary.

Hope that helps.

[dizzove]

Thanks homie , I will give that a shot and see if I can make it work. Thanks for the advice. It is well appreciated.

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