delete the lead on an mp3 audio track

[françois]

hello,
could someone tell me how to delete de track voice on an mp3 ?
what kind of little free plug could do this easily ?
thanks

[GSpro]

Hi.
Sounds like you want to make a karaoke version of the song.
It's not that easy to do and even if you manage to remove the vocal, the music wont sound as good anymore.

1) The vocal as to be in the center of a stereo file.
2) If there's too much reverb and or delay on the vocal lead, it'll do you no good at all.

You can try this app (Transcribe). It has a karaoke feature in the preference window. It is uncrippled and will work for 30 days.

http://www.seventhstring.com/

Good luck

[GSpro]

Also you can try this or better yet you can redo the music from scratch using Metro of course

http://primo-media.com/?page_Request=Products

It seems a better option.

Let us know how it works out

[françois]

hello thank you for your answer could you tell me please what is " redo the music from scratch " ?
François

[françois]

I download transribe, but don't find the karaoke function in the preferences ?
could you tell me where is it please ?

[GSpro]

In Transcribe, after you load the song into it, click the "FX" button, then, the "Mono/Karaoke" tab. Tick the "Active" radio button and select "Karaoke."

"Redoing the music from scratch" I meant record the music yourself.

[françois]

transcribe is not sufficiently efficient...
to redo the song... ? oh.....my god...!!!

[GSpro]

Have you tried the other link I sent you?

What's the matter? You can record the song? Just joking

Can I hear the song somewhere. Maybe youtube or something?

What's the Title of the song and artist name?

[françois]

yes I tried with sonicwork demo, voxreducer and voxreducer kit II, but don't succeed.
There is 3 pretyy old songs for my wife to the school party ( children singing the songs )

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj8inmOKSUg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24pwoSd0PYA
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd7d3WQa9PU

good luck..!!

[GSpro]

It sounds like pretty old material. I tried to tinker with one of them myself with not much luck.

I don't know what your music abilities are but Transcribe will slow down the MP3 without changing the pitch of the music so, you can hear what is going on in the song and redo/record the music yourself. I do that everyday, but again, I don't know what your abilities are and Just trying to help you the best I can.

[françois]

thanks for you help,
It's very difficult for me to redo the song.
I 'll try again with " sonicworks " demo, but quite impossible..never mind.
thanks again
François

[GSpro]

Just another piece of information. In transcribe, after you load the song and set it into karaoke mode, use the built in EQ. That might help too.

How soon do you need them?

[françois]

when I use the karaoke mode, the song is not the same at all, quite only the voices are remaining....
I need those songs on next saturday...

[GSpro]

Yes, I just tested another one on this end and getting pretty much the same results.

The reason why I asked how soon you needed them, is because I was going to the background music for you if, you didn't mind (free of charge of course), but Saturday is right around the corner. If it was 3-4 weeks from now, it wouldn't have been a problem and would have had them done maybe in a week and half.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[françois]

thanks very much for you help I appriciate.
I will do it with good midifiles, and it will be suffisient.
I look transcribe, it seems to be very nice, but I don't know how to do with it...with much more time, I will ask you if you want...
François