Acapella tutorial

[DbSharp404]

It looks like it works only for songs without sub bass. I tried with some dubstep tracks and it did nothing. But thanks for the trick :)

[RealitieBeats]

@cunningklobe how do you remove the instruments and not the vocals?

[cunningklobe]

@RealitieBeats You mean you want to make a karaoke? I'm doing a video for that now.

[ivantoroman60]

I made an accappela of an instrumental song,i did the drums,bass,vokals,& precussion seperatly. And now I cant put it all together. Help?!

[cunningklobe]

@ivantoroman60 This tutorial is to make acapellas, I can't help you with putting a song together.

[ivantoroman60]

@cunningklobe yea,but i recorded my voice on tracks in separate windows. is there any way to load those tracks on one window so i could save it? :(

[cunningklobe]

@ivantoroman60 Try highlighting the track you want, copying it and then pasting it into the other window. Should work.

[ivantoroman60]

@cunningklobe Thanks,it worked :D

[WickedLadyProduction]

I've tried it, but I'll be honest it didn't work out well for me I done all the instructions but it didn't turn out well at all

[cunningklobe]

@WickedLadyProduction Sometimes It sounds crappy if the original and inst. are not the exact same frequency.

[SailorKosmos]

i did everything you said, but nothing happend >.< The track sounds like the original song.. please help me :( (Sorry, for my english)

[cunningklobe]

@SailorKosmos It oesn't work for every song.

[RuiFavela]

You have 2Pac Changes acapella :DD 2Pac is the king of rap man

[substitutebanana]

When i click invert, it is gray and i am unable to select anything. I am sure that my track is selected!

[cunningklobe]

@substitutebanana Instead of clicking on the track itself, try clicking on the gray box beside it.

[substitutebanana]

When i open both songs, they open in different windows. how do i fix that?

[Kille483]

@substitutebanana I have the sameproblem

[cunningklobe]

@Kille483 @substitutebanana Instead of clicking on the track itself, try clicking on the gray box beside it.

[johnthehugo]

(Stupid question)What is an instrunental and regular track?

i mean...What's the difference.Please answer...

[SilvarretMusic]

@johnthehugo Regular is just the full song.

Instrumental is the same song but without the vocals, like a karaoke version.

[LPHJHGuitar]

Do you have to use and instrumental..? Because I wanna make an acapella of Marianas Trench's song By Now, but it just came out on iTunes yesterday. So there's no instrumental.

[cunningklobe]

@LPHJHGuitar As far as I know, there is no way to do this without an instrumental. You can research yourself; some people say you can use a plugin called kn0ck0ut. check it out.

[EpicLifeStudio]

@cunningklobe this tutorial sucks, it doesnt work!!! If band hasnt instrumental track for original track it cant work, because if you remove vocals from tracks, it will be mono tracks and if you download instrumental cover it hasnt same instruments than original, this tutorial is waste of time!

[cunningklobe]

@EpicLifeStudio Its not a waste of time if you have the official instrumental. You wouldn't have wasted your time if you had read the description box

[EpicLifeStudio]

@cunningklobe but official instrumentals arent for every song, maybe for one of 80 songs...

[cunningklobe]

@EpicLifeStudio Thats true. I wish they happened more often. But thats not my fault.

[NeruKissu]

LOL you're a H!P lover! The song is v-u-den Nan ni mo Iwazu ni, I LOVE YOU.

I am trying this with My School March from Oha Girl Maple.

[jeshuajj124]

did you used the same mp3?

[punqkeh]

It isn0t working :( i just hear the instrumental a little little little low, but they're still all hearable:(

[NorwegianMuslimGirl]

@punqkeh

sam bout me =(

[tvmoviesandmusic]

i tried it, but the instruments (and vocals) were still there. please help!

[sascha2495]

hey can u help me..? when i go to the effects and try to click invert its all in grey and i cant click it.. please help

[cunningklobe]

@sascha2495 Make sure you have the track you want to invert selected. it will turn darker when its selected.

[sascha2495]

@cunningklobe yes sry that i bothered u with such a stupid question i already figured out, but thanks..

i have another problem, i met the knockout dll file in the plugins folder but i couldnt opden it in audacity :/ please help

[McCutYou]

@sascha2495 you need to stop the track before you can add an effect

[eakooffire]

You could have written instructions too (in the desc.), if you're worried about it being too fast and such. I understood, but some other people might have trouble reading as fast. (That's just if you're worried about it)

[OGkool1]

need the instrumental?

[JVlapleBoii]

I have a problem, it doesn't work with me, i don't know why, maybe i'm not syncing them correctly?

I don't really know what's going on. :(

[rasfi1]

does it work with hard drum beats song like michael jackson's?

[tript3kk]

MAJOR EMPHASIS ON PERFECT trust me

[WishUponAStar1994]

If you play around with the gain on both the instrumental and original, you can make the music even softer without sacrificing vocal volume. ^_^

[cunningklobe]

@WishUponAStar1994 Thanks for the tip! I'll try it out.

[alan9garcia]

ok so this never works for me, i alway line up perfectly and it never works and im so pissed off

[ekstasixD]

are there 2 diferent tracks or is the same track twice? i couldn't understand what did you do in the first step! can you help me?? :$

[cunningklobe]

@ekstasixD I'll try to explain this as best as i can. I wanted to make an acapella, so i imported two files into audacity. one of the files is "song name" and the other file is "song name (instrumental), which is basically a karaoke version of the song i'm using. since the two files i imported are stereo files (files with left and right audio) it appears as if there are four tracks in all, but in reality, the top two and bottom two tracks are bundled with each other to make a single audio file.

[cunningklobe]

the tracks are two different tracks. they are the song i want to take the vocals from, and the instrumental version of that song. I lined the tracks up perfectly so when you play them together, they arent off beat. then i selected all of the instrumental track, and clicked "effects>invert" and if your file was lined up perfectly, you should have just the vocals and no bg music.

[ekstasixD]

@cunningklobe perfect :D thanks a lot!!

[SuperDiamondDogs]

Well, I'm trying to take the vocals from David Bowie's cover of I Feel Free from the instrumental, but I did what you said on this video, but it made the entire thing silent. Do you have any suggestion or solution?

[cunningklobe]

@SuperDiamondDogs tell me step by step what you did, and i'll try and help you out.

[SuperDiamondDogs]

@cunningklobe I really don't need help anymore, as the vocals didn't match to the instrumental, but thanks for offering to help!

[AvassaladoresVEVO]

Now I used a different song, with correct instrumentals, but the instrumental still is too high, is there a way to lower it more? I mean, I did it correctly and it had a result, but it still isn't the results I look for.

[cunningklobe]

@AvassaladoresVEVO You can try doing a noise removal, but i can't guarantee it won't compromise some of the vocals too. I plan on doing a video about removing some extra noise but I've really been slacking on it. If theres anything in particular other than this you'd like to see in my next video, please let me know!

[thegreekwarrior12]

i cant align my tracks it won't let me

[ZZZcover]

IT WORKS FOR ME CUZ THE SONG AND THE INSTRUMENTAL WAS FROM THE SAME SINGLE

[cunningklobe]

@ZZZcover Yeah, usually the songs from the official releases, be it a single or what have you, work perfectly. I use a lot of hello! project songs, but some of the earlier singles have weird frequency issues.

[AvassaladoresVEVO]

Wait, now I have perfection, but isn't working. I mean, I got the instrumental version using vocal remover, because this music I got has no instrumental version.

[cunningklobe]

@AvassaladoresVEVO I don't think it works for home made instrumentals, I apologize.

[Kryanwan8]

@AvassaladoresVEVO Then it wont work. The instrumental has to have the EXACT same wavelengths as the original song.

[AvassaladoresVEVO]

It doesn't work for me, I can't reach perfection no matter what :/

[xiv14cam]

works for me :) thanks a lot

at least i don't need to use utagoe -_-

[cunningklobe]

@xiv14cam Yes, utagoe is a pain in the ass xD You have to convert the files to wavs too, takes so long...

[akidshuffle]

Dudeee, how did you import the song then automatically it will have 2 different part. i mean like the upper and the bottom. there's 4 of that blue histogram. when i put my song, it only has the upper one. howww? :/

[cunningklobe]

@akidshuffle Your mp3 should have two channels. If it only has one, its a mono file. You need to try and get another one with both channels.

[UrMomIsClockLike]

Yeah I tried this with 4 different songs and none of them worked :/

[mastertape1]

wow !! you're awesome teacher !! i understood evreything !!!  i even couln't find out so good tutorial !!

[cunningklobe]

@mastertape1 Thank you :)

[FreshAirMusicTv]

silence of the lambs zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[cunningklobe]

@FreshAirMusicTv If you're referring to the fact that I didn't talk, I mentioned that I could try it next time in the description. But instead of a borderline rude comment, I would like to hear constructive things because I am trying to improve on tutorial videos but I can't if viewers don't tell me what to improve on

[gaarabitch96]

It doesn't work. Both, original and instrumental are the same but if I invert one of them, it still sounds the same. Is there another way?

[cunningklobe]

@gaarabitch96 As far as I know there is no other way. You can try googling it or looking through various remixing forums. I have heard that you can EQ out some of the background music and then remove the rest using noise removal, but I'm not sure the exact method.

[Bass15000]

I have notice...

The number of Hz in both songs is the same...

Both need to have the same number of Hz for work??

or is not necessary??

[Rrrita413]

mou, it doesnt works for me, but i will keep trying fufufu!!! XD

[gAlRe254613]

Sorry dude, but it is very difficult.

Give me a light face, please!

I'm from Brazil.

If you can send the answer in Portuguese, thanks!

[cunningklobe]

@gAlRe254613 Eu não falam português. Mas eu farei meu melhor para explicar. :)

Neste vídeo, eu usei dois tipos de arquivos mp3. Uma delas foi a música. o outro era um karaokê da música mesmo. Você deve alinhá-las perfeitamente. Depois de feito isto, selecione a faixa de karaokê. ir para o "efeito"no menu. Ele está no topo. Clique em "Inverter". Se as pistas estão perfeitamente alinhados, você deverá obter uma versão acapella da música.

desculpe, eu usei um tradutor.

[gAlRe254613]

@cunningklobe Thanks, I understood perfectly, the problem is I do not have the karaoke song!

I also used the translator. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[TheMystery1singer]

hey i have a song and i want to increase the vocal volume on it as it is too low...plz help..:)

[cunningklobe]

@TheMystery1singer An acapella song, or a song with vocals and music in the background? For an acapella song, just adjust the volume slider on the side of the track. If its a regular song, message me and i can hopefully give you some tips.

[lumkid060285]

How come this never works for me ! Everytime i align the racks to what looks to be perfect, theres another part of the wave thats off; so one part will be matching and the other part will be off. Its pissin me off.

[cunningklobe]

@lumkid060285 Like i said, some songs don't always work. If the frequencies of the tracks arent the same, it won't work. Subsequently, some songs also have "imperfect" instrumentals that for whatever reason arent exactly the same as the original.

[PurpleRazz]

i tried it and did everythign u said but it still doesnt work! :(

[cunningklobe]

@PurpleRazz Some songs are stubborn and don't work no matter what.

[darkscurion]

can't you take all the music and leave just the vocals?

Just the singing part, no beats, no music at all... Can you do that?

[cunningklobe]

@darkscurion It is very hard to do this. You can try effect> remove noise and see if you can get rid of some of the excess sound that way. I can make a video on this if you need me to.

[dbzhoa]

@cunningklobe please do make a video on that i wanna know too

[megatrondesepticons]

can I you do it with two of the same tracks or do i need an intrumental version and original version?

[cunningklobe]

@megatrondesepticons

Unfortunately, You'll need both an instrumental and the orignal track.

If the vocals on a track are panned center sometmes you can isolate them. There is an open source program called knockout that tototyrol made. It doesnt always work, but its worth it to check out.

watch?v=O4UZmlul0sQ

[megatrondesepticons]

@cunningklobe oh ok thanks alot man

[cunningklobe]

@megatrondesepticons im a woman :P but no problem

[megatrondesepticons]

@cunningklobe oh sorry but thanks again

[saido6pac]

definately hearing voice over some text on the video!

[cunningklobe]

@saido6pac Thanks, i'll give it a try!

[dzinnc]

I don't see how aligning the two tracks will remove noise... that makes no sense

[cunningklobe]

@dzinnc

Im just saying that if theres still noise in the background it could mean you're tracks arent aligned perfectly. If they're off, you can have varying amounts of "leftovers" in the background. Or do you not understand the process behind how this is supposed to work?

[schizokini]

I was able to record my voice over a karaoke piece one time and record second and third voices over the same track... without recording on a new track and mixing them up. Then later on, i don't know what happened, every time i try to do it again, the second and third voices record on a new track. how do i get back to that previous state?

[schizomuzik]

Thanks for the tutorial. Really simple and easy to follow.

do u have any other software that can get rid of the remaining background music?

[cunningklobe]

@schizomuzik no problem :)

As far as i know the only way to do this is to use remove noise, also in audacity. Play around with it a bit. Unfortunately this isnt the best way, because it can sometimes make the vocals sound a little weird. But in a lot of cases it works fine after an instrumental is put over it. I'll make a tutorial for that soon :)

Also, if you have excess noise, it is possible that your tracks arent perfectly aligned. Play around with this things, kind of trial and error.

[rudebwoyskillz]

safe blood much thanx

[InuzukaCharm12]

Each time I try uploading 2 mp3s to the same document, a new windows opens up for each of them, and I can't copy and paste one on to the other~ Do you know why this is? -Great tutorial btw, I just wish it was working for me!-

[cunningklobe]

@InuzukaCharm12

The only thing i can suggest is try importing them one at a time. You should be able to paste one to the other, though. the version i`m using is 1.2.6 if that helps. If you still cant get it to work, message me and we can troubleshoot further

[InuzukaCharm12]

@cunningklobe

I figured it out, thanks for your help!! ^^