Hello, I am working on a video and when I started editing it I picked some music for it. For some reason, I did not listen to the whole song before choosing it and editing the video too it. At the end of the song, there is a vocal track that I find distracting. I tried removing it via the stereo voice extractor in Audition but it didn't work. Is there another method I could try to remove the vocal track?
Post-Production : Music (Vocal Removing) by Ethan Geiger
Music (Vocal Removing)
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It's really difficult to completely remove vocals from a mixed track. It's a bit like removing egg from a cake - It's all mixed in and difficult to separate.
There is a tricky route where you separate the left and right channels, phase invert one of them, pan them both dead centre and then remove the bass on one if the channels using a phase coherent EQ. That will often remove any mid information except bass frequencies, but if the vocal had any reverb applied to the side channels then that remains. The rest of the song never quite sounds right either.
To be honest, if the track where the vocals are is similar to earlier in the song, you'd be better of cutting and pasting some of the earlier music to replace the section with vocals.
Alternatively, check online to see if there is a karaoke version available.
Good luck with it!
Izotope RX 7 Advanced is the definitive standard for audio post production (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx.html). it has a boatload of features for audio clean-up from noise hiss and rumble to mouth clicks and pops, and spectral denoise. One of its hidden gems is a feature called Music Rebalance. This is a great command for redistributing the levels of the drums to the bass to the vocals to the rest of the music. But in SOME cases, depending on the complexity of the music, it can completely remove the vocals from a musical performance. Check out the examples... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxf9yy_lZg8 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFxz6zdaEk .
Now, if you dont already have RX 7, note that it's not cheap. but for everything that it does, it's well worth the money.
The iZotope RX7 is the best way to go.