Is there anyone that can remove words from a song?

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I may have mentioned this awhile ago but here I am asking again...

Im getting married this week and my friend who was supposed to remove the lyrics from a song still hasnt done it.

Is there anyone here who can possibly do this for me? PLEASE?

I have the mp3 of U2- Its A Beautiful Day with the words and like I said...just need the words gone.
 
Theres a guy who does filtered acapella- ie. filtering out music to leave vocals; i think he can do the opposite as well. Unfortunately, ATM i can't find my link for him- but would that be of any help for you? I don't know how quick the guy works, but I guess you can find out.

Lemme know, and I'll try to dig up the link.
 
Struggling to find the adress...you could try googling filtered accapella....pretty crappy response :( I'll keep trying to find it; but don't hold your breath.
 
ask your local music tech store about signal processing units / mixers which can remove vocals. there should be a music store near you which stocks something like the Mackie DFX6, which has a 'vocal eliminator' built in. i'm sure if you called a local store and explained the situation they'd be happy to help you, even if you have to pay a small fee to cover their time. it should be possible - you'd be suprised what lengths people will go to when helping out soon-to-be-weds! ;)

basically the process operates on the principle that lead vocals tend to be panned in the dead centre (neither to the left nor to the right of the stereo image). by isolating any material that is unpanned, *most* lead vocals can be removed. however there is sometimes a knock-on effect if any main guitar parts are centre-panned, and if the original song has panned vocals then you can't isolate them.

it's also worth getting in touch with the record label. it's a long shot, but they might have a dubbed version around without vocals. if all else fails it's probably worth checking it out, and again make it clear it's for your wedding.

best of luck for your search and for the day itself :)
 
If you had a copy of the accapela and the full track you could invert the accapela wave and combine it with the origonal which would have the effect on canceling out the vocals.

But it's not something I'd expect just anyone to be able to do.
 
well... it sort of depends what processing had gone into the construction of the track. if there were reverbs and delays you'd still get the 'tails' of the reverberations in the track, just minus the original signal source. which wouldn't quite be right.
 
or go to some karoke night with a large selection of music and try and pikey the instrumental of them, @ seuss surely most of the main drums (kick and snare) are centre aswell so wont they be lost? apart from that an the phase invert thing which is supposed to be a bit hit and miss all there is lef tis trinyg to do it through eq which I wouldnt of thought works that well because of things sharing frequencies.
 
the way i understand it, most channels are ever-so-slightly panned... often snares will be. as for kick drums, i imagine some kind of combination of envelope-following (to identify transients) and frequency control (to isolate the common range of the human voice from other elements of the track) would do the trick. i'm fairly sure the Mackie 'vocal eliminator' combines centre-panning-isolation with vocal-range-EQ.

i'm not sure how successful it would be, but the sales bumpf does say it works on *most* material. i reckon it would be worth a shot.
 
I had someone look into it for me and apparently if they remove most of the lyrics too much of the music will be removed as well. Im still working on this though as my guy really wants it.

I tried emailing the label awhile ago to ask if there was ever even an instrumental version and they sent a somewhat generic reply. I tried calling other avenues of support and got nowhere either.

What will be will be I guess :)
 
Johny Boy said:
If you had a copy of the accapela and the full track you could invert the accapela wave and combine it with the origonal which would have the effect on canceling out the vocals.

But it's not something I'd expect just anyone to be able to do.
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fucking hell good idea. never crossed my mind...

i'm going to experiment with that ;) cheers
 
You could try to make an edit of the track in Acid Pro?

i.e chop the track up a bit, removing any loops that have the vocals over the top etc
 
monstanoodle said:
fucking hell good idea. never crossed my mind...

i'm going to experiment with that ;) cheers
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Its a good way to de-noise things too, if you haven't got a denoiser. Or just feel like playing around.
 
basically the process operates on the principle that lead vocals tend to be panned in the dead centre (neither to the left nor to the right of the stereo image). by isolating any material that is unpanned, *most* lead vocals can be removed.
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you don't have to 'isolate' anything... :) To remove any sound which is on both the right and left channels, simply invert one of the channels and combine the two tracks.

The problem is there's usually too much stuff panned center. Also a lot of the time vocals have reverb/delay effects which create slight variations on each channel, leaving a "ghost" vocal track.


You can use the same idea to remove other pars of the track too.. if say for instance the main loop plays by itself somewhere in the track, you can then copy just the loop and then anywhere the loop plays, if you combine an inverted bit with it you can cancel out the loop. the only problem is you have to match up the waveform sample for sample which isn't always possible and is pretty much impossible for live instruments
 
Maybe the title you are looking for is available in a karaoke version?
 
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