{"id":31850,"date":"2007-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=31850"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:00:20","slug":"remove-vocals-recording-make-karaoke-track","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/remove-vocals-recording-make-karaoke-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I remove the vocals from a recording to make a Karaoke track?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is possible only for certain stereo tracks. When the vocals are exactly the same on both stereo channels, you can remove them by &#8220;subtracting&#8221; one channel from the other. This works for many studio recordings, where the vocal track is mixed exactly in the center.<\/p>\n<p>To do this in Audacity:<\/p>\n<p>Import your stereo file into Audacity.<br \/>\nOpen the track menu (click the arrow next to the track title), and choose &#8220;Split Stereo Track.&#8221;<br \/>\nSelect the lower track (the right channel) by clicking it in the area around the mute\/solo buttons.<br \/>\nChoose &#8220;Invert&#8221; from the Effects menu.<br \/>\nUsing the track menus, change each track to &#8220;Mono.&#8221;<br \/>\nPress the Play button to hear the results. If you are lucky, the voice will be gone but most of the other instruments will be unaffected, just like a karaoke track. You can use the Export commands in the File menu to save the results.<\/p>\n<p>This is also possible through Izotope&#8217;s RX software (version 7 or later) using their &#8216;Music Rebalance&#8217; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[36155],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[33410],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Can I remove the vocals from a recording to make a Karaoke track? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/remove-vocals-recording-make-karaoke-track\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can I remove the vocals from a recording to make a Karaoke track? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is possible only for certain stereo tracks. 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