Just have to share why my mind is completely blown

[Pantastic]

@JcWoman

So a manager finally told the sound person to change the music. It turns out that our marketing department hired a bunch of young people and they apparently haven’t taught them workplace norms. LOL!

Well, for their sake I’m glad it was handled internally, after all they weren’t Breaking The Law.

[QuickSilver]

@JcWoman

So a manager finally told the sound person to change the music. It turns out that our marketing department hired a bunch of young people and they apparently haven’t taught them workplace norms. LOL!

That’s a Heartbreaker.

[msmith537]

@Just_Asking_Questions

How do they do that?

I don’t mean the creativity, but how do they strip the vocals or the music and keep the opposite part? Is there ready made software available?

Presumably using lost dance club technology from the mid 2000s.

[WordMan]

@Just_Asking_Questions

How do they do that?

I don’t mean the creativity, but how do they strip the vocals or the music and keep the opposite part? Is there ready made software available?

I know nothing about this stuff - seriously. But I believe there is a “Reverse ProTools” type of software that can allow at least some breaking down and isolating of tracks.

I say this because if you go on YouTube and search on “XX Isolated YY” where XX is a musician’s name and YY can be “vocals,” “guitar” or whatever you can find them. From there you can play around with them.

At random, I searched “Slash Isolated Guitar” and found a bunch: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slash+isolated+guitar

This fella is someone we discuss in music threads - he isolates tracks as part of breaking down what makes a song great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIC9zbSJoE

[wguy123]

@WordMan

I know nothing about this stuff - seriously. But I believe there is a “Reverse ProTools” type of software that can allow at least some breaking down and isolating of tracks.

I say this because if you go on YouTube and search on “XX Isolated YY” where XX is a musician’s name and YY can be “vocals,” “guitar” or whatever you can find them. From there you can play around with them.

At random, I searched “Slash Isolated Guitar” and found a bunch: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slash+isolated+guitar

This fella is someone we discuss in music threads - he isolates tracks as part of breaking down what makes a song great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIC9zbSJoE

There are a lot of stems (individual tracks) out there. Most are illegal for use in other music but there are some legally available ones, including a lot of NIN songs:

List of musical works released in a stem format

This is how Rick Beato comes up with the tracks for his “What makes this song great” series (although he implies he gets them from the recording studio I believe).

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@wguy123

There are a lot of stems (individual tracks) out there. Most are illegal for use in other music but there are some legally available ones, including a lot of NIN songs:

List of musical works released in a stem format - Wikipedia

This is how Rick Beato comes up with the tracks for his “What makes this song great” series (although he implies he gets them from the recording studio I believe).

Aha! That opens up some possibilities.

There’s a song I always liked that I want to remove some spoken parts from, make my own mix. This software might actually work for that. I think I’m going to have to download it and try it.

[Serenata67]

@JcWoman

So a manager finally told the sound person to change the music. It turns out that our marketing department hired a bunch of young people and they apparently haven’t taught them workplace norms. LOL!

As long as their not driving off any workplace Cliffs. Or asking anyone to play it again, Sam. Maybe they should play “Jack and Diane.”
Serenata67 wonders why she’s making puns about a show she was too young to watch when it was on TV

[Ann_Hedonia]

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Nm

[Ann_Hedonia]

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@Serenata67

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Nm

[Doug_K]

@WordMan

I know nothing about this stuff - seriously. But I believe there is a “Reverse ProTools” type of software that can allow at least some breaking down and isolating of tracks.

I say this because if you go on YouTube and search on “XX Isolated YY” where XX is a musician’s name and YY can be “vocals,” “guitar” or whatever you can find them. From there you can play around with them.

At random, I searched “Slash Isolated Guitar” and found a bunch: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slash+isolated+guitar

This fella is someone we discuss in music threads - he isolates tracks as part of breaking down what makes a song great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIC9zbSJoE

If (IF) the lead vocal is mixed perfectly center and nothing else is you can (sort of) remove the lead vocal by reversing phase on one side. There are (or at least used to be) CD players that can do this automatically. Results vary greatly depending on how much separation there is in the mix. And on tracks like, say, Cherish by The Association it won’t work at all - the lead vocal is panned hard left and the backup singers hard right. ETA: This can be accomplished by reversing the + and - wires on one speaker.

I hear about companies working on software that can separate individual voices/instruments from recordings, but with very limited success so far.