Reducing Lead Vocals From Stereo Track-HELP!

[Dan M.]

Any tips on how to reduce vox from a stereo track?

I know you have to reverse the phase on the L track...HELP

Thanks in advance,

Dan

[Kryst]

There's a VST plugin called "ExtraBoy". If you have the Vst to Rtas Adapter, you could try that. But it can also kind of wreck the quality of the song.

Maybe play the music along to the stereo track you have and then turn up the new stuff around it, unless it's for karaoke or something

[Dan M.]

Its for WINDOWS ONLY...I AM A MAC GUY

ANY OTHR IDEAS???

[Shawn Simpson]

There's not really a way you're gonna get anything that sounds even remotely descent, but what you can do is pan the left and right channels to the center and invert the phase of one channel. Anything that appears dead center of the mix (and therefore is equal level in the left and right channels) will cancel out. Unfortunately, that will take out a bunch of your snare and kick drums and probably most of your bass too. It will also leave you with a mono mix and remnants of the lead vocal ghosting thru from the stereo effects in the original mix.

Some people have suggested using an EQ on one of the stereo tracks to tune into the vocal so that it's all that cancels out, but I don't know if anybody has had very good results. Physics are a pain.

[Kryst]

ExtraBoy's VST is for Windows only?? I thought I used it in Mac with a program different than Pro Tools

If you are on a Mac and don’t mind running Classic (or still own a Mac that boots into OS 9) the free Prosoniq Pandora RT (comes with sonicWORX PowerBundle and Studio) might be a good option. Suppresses voice in mono (!) and stereo mixes. Works fairly well, too, if the voice is not mixed with a lot of reverberation. Check it out at http://www.prosoniq.com -> Download -> Freebies page.

Try this link http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manu...u_effects.html