hey chris liepe here with a fast easy and free way to create your own instrumental
tracks of your favorite songs sing over any song really and use the original music don't look for
third-rate karaoke tracks anymore use the original instrumentation that you've grown to love
and put your voice over it practice it record it have fun
shout me show me
unless i've done all the instrumentation myself or collaborated with other musicians
on the channel when you've seen me doing cover songs singing to the original band tracks what
i'm about to show you is what i've done but before we get into the process pop on over
to the youtube channel cc karaoke for many of their tracks they do what i'm going to show you
and the odds are it might be here the song you're looking for so
check out cc karaoke they have tons of amazing songs instrumentals that are the original
banned tracks without the vocals if you can't find it do what i'm about to show you and if
you're frustrated with your voice especially when you're trying to sing songs and you'd like to go
deeper discover what your voice can really do and not be frustrated with your voice click the link
below and join my free voice course and i'll work with you to mold a voice to build a voice
that you can really be happy with you can sing your favorite songs over real band tracks the
first thing you want to do is grab a computer a mobile device won't work so well for this
and go over to vocalremover.org it is free it is awesome and there's lots you can do with it
but we're going to be focusing on my workflow and how i use it to generate awesome sounding
instrumental tracks that i can sing over and then you hit browse my files now in this
day and age that we're in we don't have like actual files of the songs that we want right so we
have to create it and there's a special way that i create it it's not really that special but it's
not something that that a lot of people do because they just stream music all the time so i kind of
hack the system a little bit using some very basic recording gear if you have a phone that has an
eighth inch headphone out or you just want to use your computer and route it like i'm going to show
you you can do that and then you take the other end of a cable like this these are quarter inch
and you plug this into a really basic recording interface any recording interface or sound card
that has two channels in you'll be able to use a cable like this but what we're
doing is we're going hardwired from a second computer or your main computer
and you're routing it in to your recording interface i've got my track right here
okay so i have this all plugged in and i'm going to go over to my daw
and i've got a track i've got the device or the eighth inch out of my computer going into
my interface ins one and two so my computer out my physical out of my computer is going
into the inputs 1 and 2 on my audio interface i've got it muted so i don't hear it twice
and then when it's all done you wind up with a full file the one i just showed you is a little
bit low brought the levels up and named the file and there's different ways to do this in daws you
can just export the file but i named it here and then you're going to export it somewhere
on your computer so that you can browse for that file the actual physical file and you just hit
upload and what's happened is this cool free algorithm that's out on the web that anybody
can use has separated out the music from the vocals now if you want to you can just stop
tinkering here and hit play on the music and sing along and it works pretty well
but what i like to do when i'm making my videos or if i want to have a little bit more flexibility
is i will actually then record this i'll hit play right here and then go back into my daw
so i'm doing the same thing i just did with the original the full mix off of spotify but
i'm doing it from this website and i'm routing it back in to analog one and two from my computer out
so physically out of this physical out of this computer into my daw into my recording interface
on my particular setup it looks like this i'm outputting internal speakers and then i've got
the eighth inch hooked into the back of the computer the physical back of the computer
and then i'm inputting into my ensemble that's how i've got that working and so the the web is
is outputting directly physically into my input on my interface now you say there's software that can
internally route things and make this a lot easier chris why are you doing it this way because i like
to see cables hooked up and it's way easier for me to just do it physically the degradation loss
is minimal it just doesn't matter this is the way i've been doing it forever and it works great i'm
sure there's some software out there and if you know of it post it in the comments and maybe i'll
try it out but this is the way i've been doing it forever so it yields when i record it back in
i have my show me how to live instrumental and i have my show me how to live vox
chris cornell's vox so you can actually pull just the the isolated vocals out for this as well
but they don't sound so good this isn't good enough for doing isolated
vocal analysis most of the time but the instrumental that you get is quite good
it works a little different with every song and you hear some bits of artifacts but it's pretty
good and wonderful to practice too wonderful to create your own versions of some of these songs
and as i said as a karaoke artist as a singer there's lots of other tools on vocalremover.org
that you can use right there in that online app and they're pretty cool but i wanted to
show you how i bring it into my daw so i can work with it in a native format that
i'm really familiar with and do lots of things in in terms of post-production compression and eq and
editing and all that stuff you can't get that deep on that free website i'm sure they'll get
there one of these days and you can also donate to vocalremover.org i hope this was helpful and
fun had a lot of questions about how i do this so it's about time i made a video for it again
if you'd like more help with your own voice you want me to get you in shape to be able to sing
your favorite songs click that link below and join my free voice course we'll see you for more