Originally posted by Kase Villand:
Greetings! I've been toying with the idea of remixing a few popular music pieces, but I'm sure I don't have the tools to do it. The thing I notice in the underground remixing world is how easy it seems for them to separate instruments from the original tracks.

For example, when I hear some of the remixes of Switchblade Symphony songs, the vocals have been isolated completely from the old music. I don't think that the original music's multi-tracks have been released to the world at large, so how do people isolate that stuff from a stereo mix?

I'm probably the last person in the world to find out about this stuff, so I apologize if this is a dumb question. My focus has been recording of heavy-metal bands, so I haven't had much use for tools like these.

Thanks!

Kase
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I'm afraid there are no such tools. If you are hearing isolated tracks, then those tracks have been released to the producers of the remix.

That's what I was afraid of. I've seen ads for softwareplug-insthat will remove voice from a commercial CD or stereo track, but I've not heard them in action so I don't know how cleanly they can do this. I just figured if they could remove the voice cleanly, they could leave the voice and remove the rest...

*sigh* Oh well. Least I know people won't be messing with my mixes too easily...

Thanks!

Kase
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"to hell with the CD sales- download the MP3s and come to the shows!"

Bullshit ads targetted at consumers. Basically taking the difference between L and R so that the center channel is eliminated. That's vocals, along with everything else in the center - kick, snare. It never works the way you want it to. You still hear the reverbs/panned delay leftover from the vocal tracks too.

You probably could dig out the instrument you want to a certain degree of success - you can't make everything else disappear completely, but if you could make what you want louder in comparison to everything else, perhaps it would be acceptable enough for use in a remix (of course, depending on the style and content of the remix as well).