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Hi all,

Yeah I know it's been a long time since I've shown my name around here, but...

...I need to know of a good, cheap directx or VST (just downloaded a wrapper!) vocal remover plugin.

Or, could someone tell me exactly how to remove vocals by doing the reverse wave form thing that I saw mentioned briefly in another thread in here...

Thanx heaps

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jippers wrote:...I need to know of a good, cheap directx or VST (just downloaded a wrapper!) vocal remover plugin.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... emover.htm
jippers wrote:Or, could someone tell me exactly how to remove vocals by doing the reverse wave form thing that I saw mentioned briefly in another thread in here...
http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=128492
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deshead wrote:
jippers wrote:...I need to know of a good, cheap directx or VST (just downloaded a wrapper!) vocal remover plugin.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... emover.htm
I don't think that much of this actually, although I guess it depends what you want to use it for. I generally think by far the best thing about the AnalogX stuff is that it's free ..
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j$ wrote:
deshead wrote:
jippers wrote:...I need to know of a good, cheap directx or VST (just downloaded a wrapper!) vocal remover plugin.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... emover.htm
I don't think that much of this actually, although I guess it depends what you want to use it for. I generally think by far the best thing about the AnalogX stuff is that it's free ..
Yeah I've got that one and it isn't exactly what I'm after.

I was reading on the web about a band I have a few albums of - Pavlov's Dog. The thing with them is that their music is awesome, but their lead singer is extremely off-putting - he sounds dreadful. This review I read of their first album gave me a great idea - burn a remix of the vinyl to CD and remove the vocals so that the CD version is all music.

Thanx to all who supplied advice and links
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jippers wrote:I was reading on the web about a band I have a few albums of - Pavlov's Dog. The thing with them is that their music is awesome, but their lead singer is extremely off-putting - he sounds dreadful. This review I read of their first album gave me a great idea - burn a remix of the vinyl to CD and remove the vocals so that the CD version is all music.
No, that article was about The Grateful Dead. Or was it The Cure? Anyway, cheers, jippers.
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roymond wrote:
jippers wrote:I was reading on the web about a band I have a few albums of - Pavlov's Dog. The thing with them is that their music is awesome, but their lead singer is extremely off-putting - he sounds dreadful. This review I read of their first album gave me a great idea - burn a remix of the vinyl to CD and remove the vocals so that the CD version is all music.
No, that article was about The Grateful Dead. Or was it The Cure? Anyway, cheers, jippers.
Actually, it was on the usually reliable Allmusic Guide and it was a review of the Pavlov's Dog LP "Pampered Menial", but we are arguing semantics now, aren't we?

Besides, I don't find the Grateful Dead's vocals bad, not do I find Robert Smith nauseating either. Besides, Smith has never reached the dark depths of bad vocals that Dylan did on his self titled LP...
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References to the Grateful Dead in this context probably have to do with the way a couple of their "live" albums were recorded. For "Europe '72," they recorded a whole European tour, picked out the best played songs, set up their whole sound system back at home and played the tracks back through the apropriate amps, speakers, etc., and all the vocal tracks (except maybe Pigpen's) were re-recorded. But they were working from the original multitrack masters, not eliminating vocals from a stereo mix.

They did something similar in 1990, re-did the vocals on top of instrumental tracks from a European tour (except for Brent's... apparently this method of recording a "live" album has bad karma for keyboard players). They called that album "Without a Net," which even I thought was a little cheezy...

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Oh boy. I will own up and say that I was really implying that the desire to remove vocals may apply to any number of bands, and I choose to rib Jack on the Dead, and he is mature enough not to take the bait.

But I'm glad I did, since Charles came up with some insightful references.
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dude i know posted this a while back - i'm not all that interested in removing vocals, so i've never tried it, but he does a lot of this stuff. you might also try checking through the rest of his archives.
http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ ... n-tutorial
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ps man, i didn't realize those dead albums had re-recorded vocals. blech! i really enjoy "without a net" too.
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...and a sad follow-up to my other post... Vince Welnick, keyboardist for the Dead from 1990-95, died last Friday. What I'm reading here and there seems to suggest it was suicide...

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