Removing a Voice Track

[MiraiGurl]

Yo! I'm trying to remove the voice track from a .wma so I can make a karaoke background for a tryout on Tuesday. Can anyone help me figure out how to do this before it's too late for me?

Btw, it's a simple song. It has one voice and on back-ups.

Any help you all can give me is really appreciated!! Thanks in advance!

[Mindfields]

You came to the right place. I'm not talented in the sound editing process, but I'm sure that there are quite a bit of artists in these forums, so they should know.

[MiraiGurl]

yeah. I figured that a lot of talented computer people would be on here, who could help me out. ^^

I'M COUNTING ON YOU GUYS!!

[alainbryden]

You came to the right place.

... just the wrong forum.

[MiraiGurl]

Well, which forum should this go in? The site admins moved it here.

[Cenright]

Don't worry, you are in the right forum now, you just started in the wrong forum.

[jewpinthethird]

No, you cant remove a voice track from an sound file.

SpookG said it best:

Imagine that a song is like a cake. You cant take the eggs out of the cake once it is finished.

[nforcer06164]

You could use a voice removal tool, like the included one in Adobe Audition 1.5, but the best you're going to get is muffled voices and overall diminished quality.

I'll back up jewpin in case you're not sure. You cannot remove voices from songs once they are complete. I used to think it was possible, but I've known for a while now that it's not.

[MiraiGurl]

Awww man. Oh well, thanks you guys.

[djshox]

Vocals are usually in the center field of a track, drums on left and right, so try muting out the center field.

Or I heard there was something to do with playing a track over another inversed or something. Not sure.

[Porgy]

it depends what frequencies the vocals are on. You can use filters that will allow all frequencies except the one you designate to filter through. This however is not at all easy to do and will also filter out any instrumentals that are on the frequency too. sooooooooo..... in short there is no efficient way to do it.

[Aerogroove]

what alot of dj's to get or remove is just get an eq with alot of bands. eq the hell out of it until you get a sufficient amount of vocal out. eq the music after eqing the vocals out so it sounds a little better. then add a little reverb over the top to smooth it out a bit.

[sleeplessdragn]

What Shox is talking about involves splitting the stereo track and editing out the center frequency, I think by inverting one side and changing them both to monotone, then remixing both tracks. I've done this using Audacity, and I've gotten a decent product. Expect to lose certain frequencies this way though, mostly of the lower scale.