Does anyone know of any free vocal removers? Also, how well do they work? It seems that anything which removes the vocals would probably also remove or distort a lot of the other instruments.

Thanx for any info!

If you have a nice voice record yourself singing and do a wave substraction.

Seriously...: If you substract channels (L-R or R-L) with a sound editor everything that has been located in the centre of the stereo image (in most cases the vocals) will be removed. This effect is also available as Winamp Plugin IIRC; a google search including the words 'Karaoke', 'Winamp' and 'Plugin' should work.

Be careful: If you do this with lossy compressed music, you'll hear awful artifacts afterwards.

I don't know any better possibility and doubt that it exists. Everything else would be very complicated, e.g. something like noise reduction with the singers voice used to create a noise profile. (This would have to be done manually for every single note, you'd need some acapella recording of the singer and most likely you wouldn't be able to remove consonants ...)

check this out http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/a...io/vremover.htm

I found that after Google searching as Tigre suggested. Thanx.

http://forums.syntrillium.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9991

yup...


i can`t say i have tryed them all..
but those i have tryed.. (and that`s a handfull..)
non is 100% working..

not suprising realy...
think the way thats works best..
is to separate the channels (as tigre talked about..)
and do a manual cleanup..

even the instrumentals you get on Vinyl..
are not complete.. they "block" the vocal track(`s)
but you can still hear them..
on DCD.. it`s working mutch better..