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Unless you get a Midi of the song.

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A Midi?

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Phase cancellation is the only way I know of to take lyrics out of a song. Good luck finding a lossless karaoke of whatever song you need to do that though.

Other than that, you can also fine-EQ as many frequencies as you can to cancel out all sounds except for the singing. However this takes some experience of EQing and it'll 'always' turn out kinda iffy and with lots of residue from sounds that play as the same frequencies as the vocals. And with Audacity alone, you're gonna have a hell of a time trying to do it this way. You need some kind of audio workstation.

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Even with an audio workstation, trying to eliminate the surrounding music through equalizing without any experience of it is completely unrealistic, like you said.

I've tried to do this myself before when I was trying to get rid of the backing track to Feel Good Inc., I wasn't able to find ANYTHING that did it both easily and reliably.

What song is it, by the way?

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That Was Just A Dream - Cut Copy

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Yeah. From my experience, and kind of repeating what has been said.

As a DJ, when I cut vocals from a tracks while mixing, the mid range of frequency is where vocals usually sit, as depending on the genre, most producers cut hisses and highs from vocals, and have vocals in mids. So EQing can work, but not sound very well, at all.

The only thing you can really do is to phase out the vocals, which requires getting the instrumental version of the track and phasing it with the regular version, which will get you the vocals all by themselves. I have done this and it DOES works, but both versions have to be the same version and especially bitrate and such, but this doesn't pertain to you as you are trying to GET RID of the vocals.

In that case, if you really did 'get the rights' to remix a track, do it professionally and have the producers send you the original tracks of the song, to allow you to truly remix the song. Or find a midi version of the song and such. If you don't know what 'midi' is, it's time you start learning the industry standard terminology before you attempt to try to make an industry standard remix of sorts.

Best bet is have the original artist send you the tracks of the song, so you can truly remix it.

Hope that helps a bit