- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you
how to isolate vocals in Audacity.
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- It's a pretty simple thing to do
and it's included right inside Audacity.
So here's the jingle I've got.
Let's play this back as the music.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- You got all the instruments,
the bass and everything going on underneath.
But if you go into the effects menu up here,
you'll see right near the bottom
Vocal Reduction and Isolation.
Let's give this a whirl.
And now, there are a few different presets.
Let's make sure we go to the default factory preset
and then select Isolate Vocals.
There is one that inverts as well,
but just isolating vocals will be absolutely fine.
Let's preview it out of the box.
See how it sounds.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- It's done a bit of isolation,
but, you know, could be a little bit better.
I can hear the bass kind of clunking away.
The doomf, doomf, doomf.
So I turned the low cut up to eliminate some of that.
Let's not go too crazy.
169 should be good and...
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- Lots of the bass gone.
I feel there could be a bit more
high end there in the voice.
So let's turn the high end cutoff up.
Listen now.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- Okay, we're getting a crisper vocal.
Now, there is still some music going on in the background.
So we're gonna try and tune this,
now that we've pulled the low cut up,
to get rid of the bass instruments.
And we've tuned the high cut up a bit to crisp out the voice
and keep some of those high end frequencies in the vocals.
Let's turn the strength up ever so slightly,
because the strength is strong.
It's kind of like putting sriracha sauce on something.
Preview, it's better.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- But of course, it's reducing the quality of the vocals.
So you really need to dial this in carefully.
Again, up to nearly 3.00 on strength and you got this.
♪ Free jingle Friday, oh yeah ♪
- Pretty good at isolating vocals there.
I mean, I could push this up.
Maybe we'll make it 250 for the low cutoff.
Let's try again.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
- And when I'm happy with that, I click Okay.
And you'll see these vocals isolated here in the waveform.
Absolutely amazing.
Next, I would probably go to Effect
and I would normalize this,
up to a peak amplitude of -1.0
so I can really see those vocals.
And then I might go ahead
and use something like a noise gate
to get rid of some of the rest of the music.
And then hopefully I'm using this
to remix those vocals in some way.
And once I put another piece of music underneath
or another drum loop or something underneath,
will drown out even more anything that may be left over.
Now of course, suffice to say there are other plugins
out there that you can use.
Some of them are a lot better at it
than the native Audacity effect.
But I think for free, that's pretty good.
I've done other videos on my channel
you might want to check out
about vocal isolation and also background music removal
and all that kind of good stuff, creating karaoke tracks.
Just make sure to sort them out,
get them into your playlist.
Check the links down below and at the end of this video
if you're interested in watching more.
Thanks for watching.
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