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I’m not sure if this thread belongs in this forum but it seemed to fit.

I read somewhere that one way to make your own acapellas is to take the original track then line it up with the instrumental track and invert the phase of the instrumental track, leaving you with the audio which is on the original track but not the instrumental.

The idea behind it is that the audio which is in both the original track and the instrumental will cancel each other out if the phase of one is inverted.

I know there are sites like accapellas4u.com that have loads of acapellas to download but a lot of the accapellas I want aren’t on it.

The trouble with this technique is that the two tracks need to be lined up perfectly which proves difficult. I’ve tried and only managed to get them synched up close enough to reduce the volume of the music by about half relative to the vocals, but this isn’t really enough to use it in a remix.

Has anyone ever got this technique to work or is there any other way to get an acapella from a track?
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It sounds terrible when you do that and you can still hear the music in the background and it tends to phuck up the vocals as well.
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really no easy, reliable way to get an acapella from a stereo track
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Yeh, i couldn't get rid of the music in the background. I thought it might be that i wasnt lining them up but it sounds like its just the method is ****. Guess ill have to stick with searching the web.
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zionproductions zionproductions is offline
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been down that road man...there are machines that are advertised as being able to do it, but the low-down from others is that they aren't very good either...better than a karaoke machine, but still not what I was looking for...here's one of my tricks I don't share much, but you can make an instrumental out of a track if you can find parts in the song with no vocals...you can loop those parts and then arrange them the way you like to make chorus, verse, intro, etc. You can string those parts together to make you own instrumental.... I have better luck with that now days (though in rap, cats rarely shut the f up long enough for me to steal parts to loop, lol)
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haha yeh thats useful advice, my main focus at the moment is doing remixes so thanks for the tip.
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the quality of the track and the instrumental have to be exactly the same otherwise you end up only reducing the beat volume.

Think about it, the higher the quality - the louder the track can be. If the track is higher quality than the instrumental, the inverted instrumental can only cancel out its quality's worth.

+Loud + -Loud = cancelled out
+loud + -halfasloud = half cancelled out

I never got into calculus, but I always got inverses lol


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