is there an app that actually exist? that can take away the vocals of an mp3 file and turn it into a minus 1 file? can quicktime pro or garageband have this feature? pls help...... :qmark:
You can play around with iTune's built-in equalizer. Most songs have different channels for voice and music. You just need to mute the voice channel. Some poorly encoded songs might not have this so your mileage might vary from mp3 to mp3.
thanks for the suggestion lamski... unfortunately none of the channels for that certain mp3 file that i want to mute out the vocal is working..... help! help! :sigh:
No, none exists (to my knowledge). The most you can do it run it through something like Bias Peak which has specific settings for that and greatly minimize the vocals. The software does the guess work of reducing the vocals but often it greatly degrades the quality of the music. What you'll get is the vocal will be reduced to an echo (at best) but things like other instruments might get taken out too. I can give it a try if you want. U2U me.
download audion from panic.com, it used to be shareware but it is now free. look in the consoles wndow and there is a one-click option to remove vocals from any stereo audio file ("karaoke") that quicktime supports. the resulting output is mono and there are still traces of the vocal echo. you cant record the output from audion directly, so what i do is use quicktime pro to record the mac's output in the background by attaching a mini-jack to mini-jack cable from the headphone port to the line-in port. works ok with most songs, those with backup vocals are especially hard to remove. hope this helps.
Audion does that. It has a special feature called 'of course' Karaoke. And.....it's FREE! Link here. If you are recording, turn this feature on upon encoding. Cheers!
