Post by JazzCat on Aug 10, 2006 4:43:18 GMT
Question:
I want to play bass guitar live and sing with backing tracks but can't find anyone who can remove both vocals and bass. The songs are very popular, usually chart hits. Is this something that you can do? If so, how do I forward my original cd tracks and how much do you charge? Thanks, MIDIMart member
Answer:
Hi MIDIMart member,
I don't charge a thing. I'm here to help fellow musicians.
If you are talking about removing vocals and bass from audio tracks, I can't help you. Well, I could but, what you would have left you wouldn't want to use, believe me. Not only that but you really can not remove ALL of the vocal or bass from an audio file. There is always some left. Sometimes you can do a fairly good job, other times not. It depends on each individual recording. But no matter, you will always have some of it left behind and also, you will be missing other portions of the music. See, in audio, what you are doing is removing frequencies, not specific 'parts'. As you remove the frequency range for vocals or bass you are also removing the frequencies emitted by any other instruments. Soon, what you hear is so muffled and muddy that it sounds like utter rubbishola. You won't find anyone that can do what you ask.
Take my word for it. Using original artist CDs and attempting to remove bass and vocals is not the way you want to go. If you want to work with audio tracks you will need to start with MIDI tracks. You'd have to mute the bass and melody, then record the file to audio. That entails having decent sounding instrument sounds and all the mixing skills of a pro engineer.
You can do everything you need to do with Sonar and VST or DXI instruments. I am not yet that versed in audio to help you well on that end. I am also not versed in the use of Sonar and VSTs & DXIs. I can however, point you toward some yahoo groups that have people that could help you in that regard.
Now, if you are speaking about muting MIDI parts, I can do that in a flash and not remove ANY of the original data in the file. If you wanted the bass back it could be brought back in an instant.
Cat >^..^<
I want to play bass guitar live and sing with backing tracks but can't find anyone who can remove both vocals and bass. The songs are very popular, usually chart hits. Is this something that you can do? If so, how do I forward my original cd tracks and how much do you charge? Thanks, MIDIMart member
Answer:
Hi MIDIMart member,
I don't charge a thing. I'm here to help fellow musicians.
If you are talking about removing vocals and bass from audio tracks, I can't help you. Well, I could but, what you would have left you wouldn't want to use, believe me. Not only that but you really can not remove ALL of the vocal or bass from an audio file. There is always some left. Sometimes you can do a fairly good job, other times not. It depends on each individual recording. But no matter, you will always have some of it left behind and also, you will be missing other portions of the music. See, in audio, what you are doing is removing frequencies, not specific 'parts'. As you remove the frequency range for vocals or bass you are also removing the frequencies emitted by any other instruments. Soon, what you hear is so muffled and muddy that it sounds like utter rubbishola. You won't find anyone that can do what you ask.
Take my word for it. Using original artist CDs and attempting to remove bass and vocals is not the way you want to go. If you want to work with audio tracks you will need to start with MIDI tracks. You'd have to mute the bass and melody, then record the file to audio. That entails having decent sounding instrument sounds and all the mixing skills of a pro engineer.
You can do everything you need to do with Sonar and VST or DXI instruments. I am not yet that versed in audio to help you well on that end. I am also not versed in the use of Sonar and VSTs & DXIs. I can however, point you toward some yahoo groups that have people that could help you in that regard.
Now, if you are speaking about muting MIDI parts, I can do that in a flash and not remove ANY of the original data in the file. If you wanted the bass back it could be brought back in an instant.
Cat >^..^<