software that will remove lead

Dean Salisbury · Post by **Dean Salisbury** » 27 Jun 2009 9:41 am

What software removes the lead track of a recording?
I had one but lost it and now don't remember what i was using

thanks
Dean from NY

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 27 Jun 2009 5:54 pm

Dean, nothing will remove any one track completely. That is because it is all mixed down from say 16 tracks to just two tracks and some of the lead is on both tracks.

Dean Salisbury · Post by **Dean Salisbury** » 27 Jun 2009 6:17 pm

Yes I know but there are a couple of software that do a pretty good job. I had one but in my last crash I lost it and for the life of me cannot remember what it was.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 28 Jun 2009 5:51 pm

Well, Dean, if you are not fussy about the results, here you go: I did a search on "remove music tracks"
and got 32 million results. You should get on to Google my friend

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&clien ... ck&spell=1

Dean Salisbury · Post by **Dean Salisbury** » 28 Jun 2009 7:44 pm

I don't want to remove lead vocal sounds, Im not dealing with mp3's that have vocal. I want to remove the lead guitar or keyboard, etc. Some where along the lime I've been told by several recording engineers that certain thing are usually laid down on certain tracks, like vocal; lean musicians on another track, etc. There are programs that if they don't remove a particular track they minimize the sound greatly!

The software I used to have did't remove it all, but made the track very low and if you played over it you didn't hear anything.

I have done your google search and none of those were the one that I had and I have tried several of them that were mentioned and they didn't do the job I wanted.

But thanks anyway Appreciate your time and effort

Pat Comeau · Post by **Pat Comeau** » 28 Jun 2009 8:16 pm

I don't know who's sound engineer told you that

but it's impossible to remove a single vocal or instruments from a stereo mix track without affecting something else...cause usely there's some stereo reverb and other FX on certain instruments in the final mix , you can probably mask it a little by cutting certain frequency EQ but it also affects other things that is happenning in those frequencies.

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 28 Jun 2009 11:01 pm

if your recording has more than one track a free program like audacity can show you the tracks and allow you to edit them. You can then delete, balance, pan etc the tracks. If you have everything on one track like a bounced wav or mp3 you can use an eq to clip out frequencies where the leads live. Of course anything else in that frequency range goes as well.

Good luck!

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 30 Jun 2009 5:20 am

You can't remove lead with software. Also, keep in mind that you are required by law to disclose any lead paint when you put your house on the market.

I know it's stupid, but I couldn't resist.

What the guys are telling you is true. Once a recording is mixed down to two stereo tracks, it's all there. Each instrument, and vocals, lie within a certain frequency range. The most you can hope for is to EQ that range out, but it will likely screw up the rest of the sound. Bass is a good example. It's such an extreme frequency from the rest, that you can locate the frequency and pretty much get rid of it, but the other instruments are in a similar frequency range to one another, and this is much more difficult.

A pretty good solution is to get a multitrack setup, and BIAB, and do your own tracks.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 30 Jun 2009 9:00 am

If you invert the phase of one side of a stereo pair, anything that's in the middle will disappear.

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software that will remove lead

software that will remove lead

yea I no it won't delete/erase it all

Guess I should have been more clear