Removing vocals from a recording
One of the most frequently asked questions a newcomer to singing and backing tracks asks is if it’s possible to take the vocals off of an original recording and just leave the music? On the surface, this seems like a very logical question – after all, if you are going to buy a CD of a song to listen to it and learn it, then you might as well get twice the value by taking the singers voice off the recording afterwards and leave yourself with a perfect backing track which you can use to sing the song yourself later on stage.
If you take this idea one step further, you probably already have thousands of songs in your CD collection which you’ve been building up over years, so potentially, you have thousands of backing tracks at your fingertips – all you need to do is get the vocals off them…
By now, you’re probably wondering why backing track exist at all if all you need to do to make a backing track is remove the vocals from the original? Well, there is a simple answer (and you’re not going to like it…)! Backing track companies exist because vocal elimination machines and vocal removal software just don’t work! If they did, there would be no backing track companies producing backing tracks. And don’t think that because my company produces backing tracks that I am biased and don’t want to lose business if you buy a vocal emliminating machine or software. My CLICK HERE“>article on vocal elimination explains the full technical reasons why vocal removal doesn’t work and just to show there is no bias, there are links to vocal elimination hardware and software you can buy if you don’t believe me (don’t say I didn’t warn you that you’ll be wasting your money)!
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