If the above method doesn't work for you, I have just collaborated with mrc.fm/lalalai (affiliate link) - results are AMAZING and it's free to try it (although they charge to download the song). Highly suggest giving those guys a try. 💫 ‼UPDATE FOR AUDACITY USERS ‼- I have made it easier than ever before to work with tricky audio. My brand new Audacity presets are out now. One click to GREAT sound :) Check them out here: mrc.fm/presets This is a great way for you to support my channel too 🙏🙏🙏
If it helps anyone, the menu location for "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" has changed (at least for the current version on a Mac M1 as of the time of me writing this). The new menu location is: Effect > Special > Vocal Reduction and Isolation
It gets most of the music away, but there are some instruments that make it harder to fine-tune because it is in the same range as the vocals. (Trumpet, bass synth, etc.)
Don’t forget also, if you can find certain remixes / other versions etc. where the frequency ranges of the instruments are further away from the actual vowel / consonantal frequencies. This makes extraction easier.
Thanks. I had no idea this existed and I've been using audacity for 3 years. I needed to hear a conversation but there was loud music blasting in the background. I really appreciate this
THANK YOU this worked for filtering out background music from a film scene I want to edit into a fan video. I have been screaming at various apps for days trying to work it out.
I just wanted to say that kudos to you for keeping up with the comments even when most new ones are likely repeats of people who didn't get the results they were looking for.
I did this, and the music was still too strong, so I looked at your video on removing background noises, and did that, too. It worked better than I had expected (but much as I had hoped). Thank you.
Brilliant stumbled on this from a search. I am a keyboardst, and I can now play along with vocalists :) So for me, it's ideal, because my playing will take care of the faint residue music...Thanks for this!
Thanks for the video. I've found that sometimes using both low & high pass filters also helps. When I try to isolate vocals I've had the odd one where by using isolate vocals didn't work but found using the low\high pass filters did help reduce the backing track. You might have to play around with the results by adding some bass & normalising the vocals. Hope this tip helps?
Your tutorial actually helped me isolate the solo for Entombed's Full of Hell, and as a result I've managed to learn almost the whole thing in half an hour 😅. Thank you!
Can various items be split automatically (of a sampling)? I need to eliminate as much background noise as possible. Can this be done? Thank you very much.
Im trying to make 8D audios into 100D so yeah, I need to seperate vocals from the music, and this helped alot, I separated them and now its easier to make 100D
I'm sorry to hear that the "vocal isolation" option isn't available in Capcut on Windows 10 for your audio file. Audacity is a more suitable software for isolating vocals using techniques like notching and spectral editing. Give it a try and let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you for this! Saved a recording of mine where the desktop audio was too high and my voice was too quiet, now I can actually hear myself over the game!
what the version you use? do you use the present version? well... if you click on the "Effect" button on the top left of the Audacity you can see there are many menu show up and in the bottom of it you can see the pointing down dark Arrow just click at it and it slide down to lower menu
Dude you have no idea that u have saved me from massive trouble, this is the solution I was looking for so so and so long ago. Abundant thanks. Keep doing the good work.
Hi. There is a recording on youtube of Bert Weedon playing Guitar Boogie Shuffle. Would the software you show be able to remove the drum backing and leave me with just the sound of the guitar, please?
I think you're asking a bit much of this technique I'm afraid. The only way to achieve what you're looking for would be to have all the individual elements recording separately and only mix out the elements you want.
Having an issue... when i try try and isolate the vocals, the playback of the isolated section sounds like i am recording through a potato. The quality drops way too much
Thank you for this video! I have a difficult one: I have an old tape of me singing along to a song (instrument + vocals); how can I highlight my voice only (the tape recorder playing the song was to my right hand side, behind me - if that helps).
@@MikeRussell Unfortunately yes and that's why I don't think much can be done. It was a video-camera's (sony camcorder) microphone (my Mom filming me from the front, a few meters away from me)
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Unfortunately this doesn't always work and if something was recorded in the background it's unlikely to work I'm afraid. Imagine mixing 5 colours of paint and then attempting to get just one of those colours back out from the mix.
@@MikeRussell I have a song with soprano solo and backing vocals with music accompaniment. Do you know anyone who can just remove the solo and keep all others? Thanks.
what if the lyrics is at perfect tone with the music, what would i isolate it to? (basically means there at the same volume rate), like is there a way to make the lyrics volume go higher than the music??
Yes, but you'd have to fine tune it I'd imagine. This stuff works for most general stuff. I use FL studio, and was seeing if audacity had a better version to isolating vocals. But, they seem similar, audacities is just faster but it loses too much quality and doesn't technically work right away either. In fl studio, you're gonna want to go to the equalization tools, and turn down the lows, mids, highs, etc. You'll have to experiment until you master it, and then the instruments will be completely muted if not almost completely muted, with much less volume or quality distortion. However, if an instrument is too close to the frequency/pitch of the vocals, you wont be able to do it. In this case, I see two options. One- use a "plug-in" in fl studio to isolate each individual note. You can find which notes are the vocals manually, and pitch them up or down, and then fix the equalizer so you only hear the pitched vocals. Then, extract the audio file of the pitched vocals. Bring them back in a different project as mp3. Lower the pitch manually again by opening the same plug in. Since it's an mp3 file, what you hear is what there is, for the most part. Adjust the pitch back to normal. There ya go. Or, and this is prob easier, isolate the vocals per step one, and move them up a bit, and then take the leftover sounds (which will be the instrumentals), and lower their pitch to the point they can't be heard. It will be slightly time consuming depending on your project size, but it's the cleanest way to do it. Two: instead of taking a big audio file and trying to manage it all together, take very very small segments and do the normal editing techniques, but this is also more time consuming, but probably more accessible for free software like audacity.
Hey man! Great channel. I still have a question. I recorded myself playing the electric guitar but I have a cheap amplifier that does the work but still makes a lot of background noise. What feature can help me remove or minimize this annoying noise? Cheers!
So I came up with a method similar to his theory that I think works. I don't think doubling up on noise reduction would work because you're essentially getting rid of the same frequencies so you'll still have the left over noise that the profile didn't get before. What I did that worked pretty well is I got a profile of the noise, reduced the noise in sample, went back to that same section, got another profile of the residual noise and reduced the whole thing again. With this method I was able to get rid of most of the noise while mostly retaining the original noise. I used this method in a track I used from recording drops of water in a cave. I used the drops of water for hihats and sfx. I used me smacking rocks together as the snares and kicks. I recorded the whole thing with my phone so there was a ton of noise. You couldn't hear the noise when the drops were being played but in between I could. I just got rid of the noise in between so I could increase the volume on the parts I wanted to use.
@@MikeRussell I never used it and this tutorial looked like everything was set up already, I have no idea of anything, I only selected all the song since I needed the a capella of this song
Hi i have a problem, when i click on preview, or ok nothing happens. And if i click on debug it says "error: array index out of bounds". I don't know what to do. (im sorry for bad english)
Do you have any tutorials for further cleaning up? The EQing that you mentioned at the end. Sorry if it's coming off as a stupid question, I'm quite a noob at this
Hi Mike, I am supposed to submit a project in this audio format. I am using Adobe Premiere Pro in Windows 7. I need to submit this for a client. Track Allocation Stereo-Mix & Unmix File Format. 1) Track 1 ------------------------ Dialogue 2) Track 2 ------------------------Vocal ( Narration/ VO) 3) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Music Of Stereo. 4) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Music Of Stereo 5) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Effects & Foleys Of Stereo. 6) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Effects & Foleys Of Stereo. 7) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Stereo Mix. 8) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Stereo Mix. Please help me on this. I will be grateful. Thanks Regards. Guru.
Vocal reduction and isolation is MISSING !! I'm using a MacBook Pro with MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.7. And I cant find Vocal reduction and isolation under Effects... can someone help ?
Hi Valkyrie, you’ll find this video is 18 months old now and Audacity underwent a major update since this video was made. Look out for new Audacity videos in the future.
Will this work in editing out a water drop sound or background static? I am trying to isolate a Baiji's whistle, but the recording has a water droplet sound from when I assume the dolphin breached the surface.
This method is primarily focused on separating vocals from music, but you can experiment with Audacity's noise removal tools to try and reduce the water drop sound and background static in your recording of the Baiji's whistle.
Does it work the same for instrument tracks? Example I’m trying to learn the piano part from Chop Suey however the track is buried so deep in the mix and is barely audible. I wanna try and isolate the piano track so learning it will be easier. Plus there aren’t any videos on TH-cam of isolated piano tracks for it
Hi I have a question, when I click on effects I don’t get the vocal reduction and isolation option but I do have the plug-in, can you maybe tell me how to fix it?
Hey Mike, when doing this, and try to click OK or preview, I get the pop-up saying that "This plug-in works only with stereo tracks". Is there another way to do it then? thank you!
I just tried this and it didn't work it removed music and vocals for some reason. What did I do wrong and what else could I do to isolate the vocals? I am trying to create a mashup and isolate the vocals of one song and it a WAV form of a song from iTunes
I have a question. I have this audio of my grandfather talking in the background and I want to isolate just him talking but the news in the background overlaps and is a little louder than him. How can I get it to where all I hear is him? I am working on this with a friend who is using audacity and I’m using WavePad
To isolate your grandfather's voice and reduce the background news, use noise reduction techniques in both Audacity and WavePad. Capture a noise profile from a silent section, then apply noise reduction to emphasize his voice. It may be tricky but worth a try!
How do you do this if you have an instrumental of the music along with one where the vocals are on? Like, is there an easy method to isolate vocals with the instrumental?
@@Cakekappen I retried multiple times and the exact same thing happened so either it was the video, something I somehow missed, or (probably not likely) my computer? not sure
@@c3po_bby796 you just gotta mess around with the sliders... if it still sounds shit maybe you just cant extract the vocals from that song and you have to use some other method.
i have a major problem with a file, that has very much magnified background music, and my personal commentary sounds like whisper! can audacity help me lower the volume of the "clearly magnified" music and allow me to magnify my commentary?
@@MikeRussell well yes ... i recorded 2 videos 2 hours and half each of them, and when i was done with them, i discovered that my personal commentary is so very low, it's literally whisper! and the "super magnified" music is all you can hear! even the music's echo is very painful and clear to the ears! .. guess there is no way to fix this? removing the magnified music, enhancing the personal commentary and lowering the volume of the music?
If you have them recorded as a single audio track then it sounds like you'll have to re-record I'm afraid. If the music is loud and painful and drowning out the commentary then it's hard to see this being able to be removed in post production.
If I had an audio clip without the vocals, could I isolate the difference between the two tracks to get the vocals? (subtracting an instrumental from a full track)
Possibly but again the results may not be good. You’d want to invert the track with what you want to remove and then this would give you your best chance of success.
If the above method doesn't work for you, I have just collaborated with mrc.fm/lalalai (affiliate link) - results are AMAZING and it's free to try it (although they charge to download the song). Highly suggest giving those guys a try. 💫
‼UPDATE FOR AUDACITY USERS ‼- I have made it easier than ever before to work with tricky audio. My brand new Audacity presets are out now. One click to GREAT sound :) Check them out here: mrc.fm/presets This is a great way for you to support my channel too 🙏🙏🙏
Hey I wanted to use this one but it doesn't have a free option for some reason, do they still offer it?
This is not true. They don´t offer that you download the song you have processed at lalalai
They force you to pay, and I don't have the paid version of audacity
Audacity is FREE software
please, just please, a FREE ai voice isolator
I'm still kinda confused on when exactly the audio production hour started
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Damn 😂
It starts now.
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If it helps anyone, the menu location for "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" has changed (at least for the current version on a Mac M1 as of the time of me writing this). The new menu location is:
Effect > Special > Vocal Reduction and Isolation
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Life saver
Thank you, that did help! 👍👍
Thank you so much! This should be pinned!
Thank You very much bro ❤️💪🤘
It gets most of the music away, but there are some instruments that make it harder to fine-tune because it is in the same range as the vocals. (Trumpet, bass synth, etc.)
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
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@@MikeRussell yeah sure lets just buy the 1200$ program
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I can still always hear the background music, im trying to get baby got back vocals
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Old ass
thats an old record so it must have an official acapella
Don’t forget also, if you can find certain remixes / other versions etc. where the frequency ranges of the instruments are further away from the actual vowel / consonantal frequencies. This makes extraction easier.
EQing?
HELL YEAH I CAN MAKE MEMES NOWE
@LJK Squad Same
That was always the case *aims gun*
Oh no... Your power is too great! It's unattainable!! AAAAHHHH!!!!
Dammit i got caught lmao
Not now it's 1:26am...but the power its too much...must...make...meme
Thanks. I had no idea this existed and I've been using audacity for 3 years. I needed to hear a conversation but there was loud music blasting in the background. I really appreciate this
👌
THANK YOU this worked for filtering out background music from a film scene I want to edit into a fan video. I have been screaming at various apps for days trying to work it out.
Great news!
I just wanted to say that kudos to you for keeping up with the comments even when most new ones are likely repeats of people who didn't get the results they were looking for.
Thanks 👍
0:46 is where it starts
I did this, and the music was still too strong, so I looked at your video on removing background noises, and did that, too. It worked better than I had expected (but much as I had hoped). Thank you.
I'm so glad to hear that combining both techniques worked out well for you and exceeded your expectations!
Hope there's a better way to mask the sound, just like photoshop...
yeah!
hope someday we'll get an app
there's already a bunch of free ones on youtube
@@HKB108 there are, they just don't work to well(it's called spleeter)
Brilliant stumbled on this from a search. I am a keyboardst, and I can now play along with vocalists :) So for me, it's ideal, because my playing will take care of the faint residue music...Thanks for this!
👍
Thanks for the video.
I've found that sometimes using both low & high pass filters also helps. When I try to isolate vocals I've had the odd one where by using isolate vocals didn't work but found using the low\high pass filters did help reduce the backing track. You might have to play around with the results by adding some bass & normalising the vocals. Hope this tip helps?
Cool tip! 🙌
Your tutorial actually helped me isolate the solo for Entombed's Full of Hell, and as a result I've managed to learn almost the whole thing in half an hour 😅. Thank you!
Super news. You’re welcome!
WOW, I wish I'd know this info like 5 years before. I wanted to make a remix album of Pimp C of UGK and didn't know how to extract the vocals
There you go!
Sweet James Jones
Can various items be split automatically (of a sampling)? I need to eliminate as much background noise as possible. Can this be done? Thank you very much.
Totally get you! Yeah, there are some cool tools that can do that. Logic Pro, UVM, DaVinci Resolve etc.
Extraordinary! This is the best technique I've ever seen. Thanks, Mike.
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I give up using, the best so far but only on-line is Acapella Extractor.
thanks man it wrks gd enough
Im trying to make 8D audios into 100D so yeah, I need to seperate vocals from the music, and this helped alot, I separated them and now its easier to make 100D
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Thank you so much! I used to try this with Knockout, an add on for Audacity, but it would come out sounding messy, this is just perfect.
I have no voice reduction and isolation option on the effect drop list 🤷♂️
there is a small arrow on the left corner of the drop list, i didn't see it at first but it's there
Do the same what @such a fanxy child said. If you still didn't find click Add/Remove Plugins and you can see it's disabled there. Enable it. Thanks.
Thanks, yet I don't have the option ''vocal isolation'' on the extended audio. (windows 10 capcut app)
I'm sorry to hear that the "vocal isolation" option isn't available in Capcut on Windows 10 for your audio file. Audacity is a more suitable software for isolating vocals using techniques like notching and spectral editing. Give it a try and let me know if you have any questions!
Finally! An Audacity that has good audio narration
Woo!
Thank you for this! Saved a recording of mine where the desktop audio was too high and my voice was too quiet, now I can actually hear myself over the game!
You're very welcome! I'm glad the tutorial was helpful in balancing your audio levels and ensuring your voice stands out.
Mine doesn't have the vocal reduction/isolation option in the effects. :/
please help.
what the version you use? do you use the present version? well...
if you click on the "Effect" button on the top left of the Audacity you can see there are many menu show up and in the bottom of it you can see the pointing down dark Arrow just click at it and it slide down to lower menu
Are you using the latest version?
@@MikeRussell Don't mean to budge in but I have the same problem and I'm using the latest version. Any fixes?
Mike Russell Yes.
@@MikeRussell Just downloaded it and have the same issue.
Sir your voice is absolutely INCREDIBLE
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Wait complete.
Finally, video uploaded
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I’m sure you already know but your voice is just amazing!
Thank you Carmelle
And I finally did acappelas too! Thank you so much! Since 2013 I thought that it will be so hard but...! Thank you again! (-:
Yay, great news!
GREAT! This worked perfectly for removing crappy background music in a documentary.
I'm so glad to hear that the tutorial helped you remove the unwanted background music in your documentary!
Dude you have no idea that u have saved me from massive trouble, this is the solution I was looking for so so and so long ago. Abundant thanks. Keep doing the good work.
Hi. There is a recording on youtube of Bert Weedon playing Guitar Boogie Shuffle. Would the software you show be able to remove the drum backing and leave me with just the sound of the guitar, please?
I think you're asking a bit much of this technique I'm afraid. The only way to achieve what you're looking for would be to have all the individual elements recording separately and only mix out the elements you want.
@@MikeRussell Thanks for writing.
You’re welcome Paul
massive help, thank you. i didnt realize my audio was louder then my voice in my recordings so this was very helpful.
😃
Took me a while to get the settings right, but it worked so thank you!
Glad to hear 👍
Having an issue... when i try try and isolate the vocals, the playback of the isolated section sounds like i am recording through a potato. The quality drops way too much
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Ye same
Are you, or was you a DJ? You got that kind of voice, not a bad thing, very professional. Thanks for the tutorial.
Yes, I worked on the radio for a couple of decades!
Thank you for this video! I have a difficult one: I have an old tape of me singing along to a song (instrument + vocals); how can I highlight my voice only (the tape recorder playing the song was to my right hand side, behind me - if that helps).
Hi Samantha, the song was recorded through the same mic as your voice? What was the mic?
@@MikeRussell Unfortunately yes and that's why I don't think much can be done. It was a video-camera's (sony camcorder) microphone (my Mom filming me from the front, a few meters away from me)
⚡ Exciting Audacity Update ⚡ - Revolutionize your audio workflow! My fresh batch of Audacity presets is here, making intricate editing a breeze. Get your hands on them now for instant great sound! Discover more: mrc.fm/presets And remember, your support goes a long way! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for this!!! I really do appreciate that help that you gave me and I will use every bit of it!!!
I tried this and it didn't work. I have a video I done but it recorded music from TH-cam in the background and I want it removed any advice?
Unfortunately this doesn't always work and if something was recorded in the background it's unlikely to work I'm afraid. Imagine mixing 5 colours of paint and then attempting to get just one of those colours back out from the mix.
Mike i have a question, because when I remove the music, the drums continue to be heard, how can I fix it?
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
extremely helpful. and i really appreciate how straight and to the point you were in this. 👌
Thank you so much for your kind feedback!
Ive been searching far and wide for this lol. Thanks for making it simple and easy to understand! Thumbs up
Thank you so much!
MY GOD! JAZAK ALLAH. I WAS IN SUCH A RUT AND YOU HELPED ME SAVE SO MUCH TIME!
This is super helpful for mashups. Thanks!
Great!
Hi Mike: Is it possible to remove solo vocal from a song meanwhile keep the accompaniment music and backing vocals? Thank you.
Hi Nancy. It’s not possible using this workaround method, you’d need the original stems of the song to recreate a new mix.
@@MikeRussell I have a song with soprano solo and backing vocals with music accompaniment. Do you know anyone who can just remove the solo and keep all others? Thanks.
As I say you’ll need the stems to create a new mix down to do what you’re looking to do.
what if the lyrics is at perfect tone with the music, what would i isolate it to? (basically means there at the same volume rate), like is there a way to make the lyrics volume go higher than the music??
Yes, but you'd have to fine tune it I'd imagine. This stuff works for most general stuff. I use FL studio, and was seeing if audacity had a better version to isolating vocals. But, they seem similar, audacities is just faster but it loses too much quality and doesn't technically work right away either.
In fl studio, you're gonna want to go to the equalization tools, and turn down the lows, mids, highs, etc. You'll have to experiment until you master it, and then the instruments will be completely muted if not almost completely muted, with much less volume or quality distortion. However, if an instrument is too close to the frequency/pitch of the vocals, you wont be able to do it. In this case, I see two options. One- use a "plug-in" in fl studio to isolate each individual note. You can find which notes are the vocals manually, and pitch them up or down, and then fix the equalizer so you only hear the pitched vocals. Then, extract the audio file of the pitched vocals. Bring them back in a different project as mp3. Lower the pitch manually again by opening the same plug in. Since it's an mp3 file, what you hear is what there is, for the most part. Adjust the pitch back to normal. There ya go. Or, and this is prob easier, isolate the vocals per step one, and move them up a bit, and then take the leftover sounds (which will be the instrumentals), and lower their pitch to the point they can't be heard. It will be slightly time consuming depending on your project size, but it's the cleanest way to do it.
Two: instead of taking a big audio file and trying to manage it all together, take very very small segments and do the normal editing techniques, but this is also more time consuming, but probably more accessible for free software like audacity.
What is the maximum video length that we can use?
There is no maximum video length that you can use as far as I’m aware.
@@MikeRussellThank you teacher
Vocal Reduction and Isolation option is missing on my Audacity.
Do you have the latest version of Audacity?
It was the same for my application until I downloaded an updated version of Audacity.
Thanks, perfect video shows me exactly what to do. Wish I had looked 3 hours ago.
Glad it helped.
Hey man! Great channel. I still have a question. I recorded myself playing the electric guitar but I have a cheap amplifier that does the work but still makes a lot of background noise. What feature can help me remove or minimize this annoying noise? Cheers!
Use Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin (VST2, LV2, LADSPA) based on rnnoise.
@@amolodchik Thank you.
can you do it GarageBand or iMovie??if so how do you do it
Could you not double it? Like over and over again or upload the first one you made” 🤔🤔
It's worth a try!
Kev - MrSound08 did it work?
@@voornaamachternaam907 I came here for the same question lol
So I came up with a method similar to his theory that I think works. I don't think doubling up on noise reduction would work because you're essentially getting rid of the same frequencies so you'll still have the left over noise that the profile didn't get before. What I did that worked pretty well is I got a profile of the noise, reduced the noise in sample, went back to that same section, got another profile of the residual noise and reduced the whole thing again. With this method I was able to get rid of most of the noise while mostly retaining the original noise. I used this method in a track I used from recording drops of water in a cave. I used the drops of water for hihats and sfx. I used me smacking rocks together as the snares and kicks. I recorded the whole thing with my phone so there was a ton of noise. You couldn't hear the noise when the drops were being played but in between I could. I just got rid of the noise in between so I could increase the volume on the parts I wanted to use.
Your voice is SOOOOOOO soothing 👍👍👍
Thanks 😁
When I do isolate vocals and hit preview it gives an error: "value not between 0 and 50"
Have you tried setting my a value in this range?
@@MikeRussell I never used it and this tutorial looked like everything was set up already, I have no idea of anything, I only selected all the song since I needed the a capella of this song
@@LudoMako "I have no idea of anything" lmaooo
Hi i have a problem, when i click on preview, or ok nothing happens. And if i click on debug it says "error: array index out of bounds". I don't know what to do.
(im sorry for bad english)
I’d suggest posting this in our community where you can explain in detail what’s happened with screenshots too community.musicradiocreative.com/
@@MikeRussell thanks for the suggestion, but I found out, that its a problem in Version 3.0.0, so i guess i have to somehow download an older version
I’ve removed Audacity from my computer now but good luck finding an older version.
That effect doesn't show up on my audacity :( I have a Mac please help!
Do you have the latest version?
@@MikeRussell This effect does not show up on mine either, I'm using Windows
@@MikeRussell Do i need to delete audacity and re-install for latest version of it?
No, you should just be able to update it.
Do you have any tutorials for further cleaning up? The EQing that you mentioned at the end. Sorry if it's coming off as a stupid question, I'm quite a noob at this
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Hi Mike,
I am supposed to submit a project in this audio format.
I am using Adobe Premiere Pro in Windows 7. I need to
submit this for a client.
Track Allocation
Stereo-Mix & Unmix File Format.
1) Track 1 ------------------------ Dialogue
2) Track 2 ------------------------Vocal ( Narration/ VO)
3) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Music Of Stereo.
4) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Music Of Stereo
5) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Effects & Foleys Of Stereo.
6) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Effects & Foleys Of Stereo.
7) Track 3 ----------------------- Left Stereo Mix.
8) Track 4 ----------------------- Right Stereo Mix.
Please help me on this. I will be grateful.
Thanks
Regards.
Guru.
Great one for the community here: community.musicradiocreative.com/
@@MikeRussell wtf mike such a bot
@@kingmotherfugagurps8739 ?
Can i exports without paying, if yes then pls give me the free download link!!!!
Audacity is a free tool.
Thanks!
Great! I know it sounds crazy but do you have a tip to remove for exemple a piano or guitar solo during a song in audacity?
Best from France.
I keep seeing this program used and they look different than my program layout... was there an update to it? I downloaded it about 9 years ago 🤷🏻♂️
The latest update is very different to version used here. If your version is 9 years old it may be worth updating.
@@MikeRussell thanks
thanks, worked perfectly!!
Great!
Vocal reduction and isolation is MISSING !! I'm using a MacBook Pro with MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.7. And I cant find Vocal reduction and isolation under Effects... can someone help ?
Hi Valkyrie, you’ll find this video is 18 months old now and Audacity underwent a major update since this video was made. Look out for new Audacity videos in the future.
@@MikeRussell Thank you ! I will.
It would be great if u could do a tutorial on how to completely remove the rest of the instruments out.
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Will this work in editing out a water drop sound or background static? I am trying to isolate a Baiji's whistle, but the recording has a water droplet sound from when I assume the dolphin breached the surface.
This method is primarily focused on separating vocals from music, but you can experiment with Audacity's noise removal tools to try and reduce the water drop sound and background static in your recording of the Baiji's whistle.
Not working. When I hit preview, the audio is silent.
It can depend on the song. If there is silence, then the strength is too much for the song. Try decreasing it.
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Thanks
Is zooming the song until I see many dots that we can pull it up and down will help removing the music?
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks man. This is gonna help me with my concept trailer for multiverse of madness
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Mike please make a short video on how to record using Audacity's app which is not updated using a external headphones microphone.
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Does it work the same for instrument tracks? Example I’m trying to learn the piano part from Chop Suey however the track is buried so deep in the mix and is barely audible. I wanna try and isolate the piano track so learning it will be easier. Plus there aren’t any videos on TH-cam of isolated piano tracks for it
The only way to know would be to give it a go
Mike Russell I’ll try it out
can you make a tutorial how to remove crowds from a live song
listen to the studio version
Hi I have a question, when I click on effects I don’t get the vocal reduction and isolation option but I do have the plug-in, can you maybe tell me how to fix it?
This video is now two years old and Audacity has been updated in that time. I have also since removed Audacity from my computer.
Crisp-ass, HQ sound quality coming from this man`s mic, awesome!
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2024 and this still comes in clutch. Thank you for posting this!
Amazing. Thanks!
This is great. Straight to the point without any waffle. Thanks Mike.
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Hey Mike, when doing this, and try to click OK or preview, I get the pop-up saying that "This plug-in works only with stereo tracks". Is there another way to do it then? thank you!
Hi Natalia. Convert the track to a dual mono stereo track would be worth a shot.
Thank you! Now I can remove copyrighted music for reaction videos.
I just tried this and it didn't work it removed music and vocals for some reason. What did I do wrong and what else could I do to isolate the vocals? I am trying to create a mashup and isolate the vocals of one song and it a WAV form of a song from iTunes
The success of this depends on how the song was produced I'm afraid
Could this work if I converted a TH-cam video into audio and tried it that way or if it doesn't work one nothing else will??
Aside from copyright issues as I said above it depends on how the song was produced.
I have a question. I have this audio of my grandfather talking in the background and I want to isolate just him talking but the news in the background overlaps and is a little louder than him. How can I get it to where all I hear is him? I am working on this with a friend who is using audacity and I’m using WavePad
To isolate your grandfather's voice and reduce the background news, use noise reduction techniques in both Audacity and WavePad. Capture a noise profile from a silent section, then apply noise reduction to emphasize his voice. It may be tricky but worth a try!
Alright, seems to work better than Adobe Audition. But Im not that exp. Thanks alot!
Thank you!
I think so too
Can this be applied in a Video to get rid of the background music but keep the talking thats in the video
Depending on the mix it may work
Thanks Mike Video is in mp4 format
It depends on the audio mix within the video. If the audio is all mixed together it won't work I'm afraid
Thank you! You really helped me!
That's great to hear!
Hey Mike Russell. Is there any Vocal Isolation on Audacity in 2024?
Yep and the AI add ons do even more!
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How do you do this if you have an instrumental of the music along with one where the vocals are on?
Like, is there an easy method to isolate vocals with the instrumental?
You could use the method in the video or you could use phase inversion to try and remove the music and isolate the vocals that way
Remove and isolate have two different meanings
Indeed.
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Thank you so much!
It didn't work. It failed to isolate vocal from any track,still music sounded.
This video may help - th-cam.com/video/Dt18fkRq8pc/w-d-xo.html
Great solution ! Thank you !
Thank you for watching, I'm glad the tutorial was helpful for you!
İ want to create something like tati kahoot but i dont know how to can anyone help
Thanks for this. I’m kinda thinking about making music mashups now. Time to put Yung Gravy over Megan Thee Stallion.
Have fun
it just made everything really quiet and really bad quality. disappointed tbh.
Hope you do better next time!
@@MikeRussell holy crud you just killed that man lmao
Lmao "Hope you do better next time" yeah dude you gotta do better next time.... XD
@@Cakekappen I retried multiple times and the exact same thing happened so either it was the video, something I somehow missed, or (probably not likely) my computer? not sure
@@c3po_bby796 you just gotta mess around with the sliders... if it still sounds shit maybe you just cant extract the vocals from that song and you have to use some other method.
i have a major problem with a file, that has very much magnified background music, and my personal commentary sounds like whisper! can audacity help me lower the volume of the "clearly magnified" music and allow me to magnify my commentary?
This does sound like a re-record job I'm afraid as your description seems to hint that the unwanted sound is more than background noise.
@@MikeRussell well yes ... i recorded 2 videos 2 hours and half each of them, and when i was done with them, i discovered that my personal commentary is so very low, it's literally whisper!
and the "super magnified" music is all you can hear! even the music's echo is very painful and clear to the ears! .. guess there is no way to fix this? removing the magnified music, enhancing the personal commentary and lowering the volume of the music?
If you have them recorded as a single audio track then it sounds like you'll have to re-record I'm afraid. If the music is loud and painful and drowning out the commentary then it's hard to see this being able to be removed in post production.
@@MikeRussell thank you for the reply.
theres no voice reduction in my audacity
Yes there is.
Audacity 2.3.2
If I had an audio clip without the vocals, could I isolate the difference between the two tracks to get the vocals? (subtracting an instrumental from a full track)
Possibly but again the results may not be good. You’d want to invert the track with what you want to remove and then this would give you your best chance of success.
SORRY IT DID NOT WORK FOR ME.
I DID EXACTLY AS YOU SAID
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It worked once for me but the next one it didn't worked anymore yet i input the same audio
I've been doing so,e music edits lately where I take the vocals of a song and make them say something else (flying kitty style) and this has helped
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