| Easy... take one channel, wire it out of phase, and add it to the other
channel. That's all those "vocal eliminators" do. They assume that
the vocals will be in the "center" of a stereo image. They usually
cancel out the drums as well since drums are also usually mixed to be
equal left and right.
-Steve
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> Easy... take one channel, wire it out of phase, and add it to the other
> channel. That's all those "vocal eliminators" do. They assume that
> the vocals will be in the "center" of a stereo image. They usually
> cancel out the drums as well since drums are also usually mixed to be
> equal left and right.
In addition to the above, they usually use filtering to try to restrict
the cancellation to frequencies where vocals tend to be found. Nonetheless,
you're still going to lose some stuff in addition to the vocals.
One of the music comics, maybe Electronic Musician, had an article on
building your own vocal eliminator awhile back.
-Hal
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Thanks for the input. I'll just do this in my spare time, especially
since I am s-o-o-o electronically inclined .. :-)
From all input so far, a quality result is not as easy to
get as I had hoped. As mentionned, I will lose certain tones
of the instrumentals along with the vocals, as they may be in
the same frequency range. In some cases, the record companies
make 'Maxy-singles' of songs which have the instrumental on
one side, and the vocal on the other. In this case, such was
not the case.
-Diane
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