Acid help

[John Rofrano]

You can’t do this with ACID and, in general, this is very difficult to do. It’s like trying to remove the eggs from a cake after it’s baked!

If the vocals are panned dead center and everything else in the mix is panned slightly left and right, you could invert the phase of one of the stereo channels which would effectively cancel everything that was equal volume on both tracks. Unfortunately, sometimes the bass guitar is also panned dead center and this would remove that too.

Sound Forge has a “vocal cut” setting on the Channel Converter that will do this for you. Also AnalogX has a Vocal Remover plug-in that works on the same principal. Search Google for vocal remover plug-ins and you get a few things to try. Unfortunately, none of them are very good.

~jr

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