Hi All

Is anyone any good with music programs??

I have a song that contains two people singing and I want to remove one....

If anyone can help.......

Cheers
mrtheedge

 

That's not actually possible.... Unless of course one has a verse and then the other. Then that unwanted verse could be chopped out and the rest glued together.

 

Agreed with above....to an extent

Without getting all patronising, I'll attempt to explain why it's so difficult.

Think of it as being similar to making making a lemon flavoured cake, for example (!)

All the separate ingredients are mixed together, then baked to form one final, whole product.
What you're asking for is the facility to say, remove the lemon flavour from the cake.

I'm not saying this is the case with yourself (I don't know you, or your audio knowledge), it is a common misconception that it is easy to de-construct a mixed piece of audio.
The simple truth is that it isn't, and whilst possible through the use of phase cancellation, most times the destructive nature will also damage the surrounding audio - in this case the supporting voice (as both voices will in the most, occupy the same frequency ranges), not to mention other audio in the song that again, occupies the same frequency ranges (one of the challenges of mixing in the first place! )

There's a package by Roland, called R-Mix, that is doing exciting, developmental things related to this area, but it will cost.....

Might want to have a look at it.

In the meantime, most audio people just won't bother attempting this, as it's too time consuming....

Good luck, and if you try the software, please let me know how you get on with it, as I've been toying with buying it anyway.

Dan

 

Great answer Dan!

 

Would probably be cheaper for the person to record the vocals again on their own

Dan's analogy is good, but you do have to be careful with deconstructing cake in this manner, if you do it too much you will end up with a chicken on your hands