- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, let's look at how to remove vocals
from a song in Audacity.
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Now, there are many ways you can do this
and many settings in this effect.
So, let's dive in and find out more.
First of all, you get a song, or in this case,
I've got a jingle of ours.
Let's play it.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
♪ And Izzy on the mic ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
Okay, so that sounds great.
But we wanna pull the vocals out
and focus on having the music,
kind of like a karaoke track, if you like.
So, it's available to you to use in the effects menu
and it's an effect called vocal reduction and isolation.
Okay, now this works pretty well
but not always as well as you think.
So, let's try the remove vocals, which would seem logical.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
♪ And Izzy ♪
And to me, I don't know about you.
It feels like it's isolated the vocals
rather than remove them.
So, not always great.
Now, we can play with some of these settings here
but let's first of all, go through a few more.
First of all, you've got something like, well,
you can remove the center, so let's do that and play.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
♪ And Izzy on the mic ♪
And actually, again, it's further isolated the vocals
and removed some of those central instruments.
So, pretty interesting effect.
Great if you're isolating vocals,
but we're trying to remove them.
So, let's go for isolate the center
and see whether this will help remove vocals.
Let's play.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
Much Better.
♪ And Izzy on the mic ♪ Much Better.
Now, we're left with a kind of music bed
and most of the vocals have gone.
It's not completely clean, not everything
but we've done a lot there.
So, sometimes it's a case
of trying these different actions available in this preset.
And it's not always the most logical.
It's not always remove vocals.
Yes, if you have vocals perfectly in the center
and all your instruments are out in the stereo field,
probably remove vocals will do a great job.
But in this case, I needed to isolate center.
So, let's now have a play with this
and let's maybe move this high and low cut around and play.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
♪ And Izzy ♪
And we might move that high cut up a bit more
to try and cut off more of the vocals.
♪ It's Mike ♪
And then we can move the strength up ever so slightly
and see what we get.
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♪ It's Mike ♪
♪ And Izzy ♪
And we're getting pretty good there.
We can click okay.
It's made the track quite quiet though.
So, we might have to go now into effect and normalize,
again, up to minus one DB to make it louder.
And there we go.
We got something that works pretty much
as a music bed now though,
as opposed to having those vocals front and center.
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And it's done a pretty good job.
So, if you want to create a karaoke track or remove vocals,
that is your go-to effect inside Audacity.
There are other plugins and apps and things that can do this
probably a lot better than that effect.
But for free, that's pretty good.
If you wanna see some other methods
do check out the links in the description to this video
and also watch some more videos that come up
in the suggestions after this video.
Hope you've enjoyed it
and do post your questions down below.
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