Singing is such an occupation that very, very many citizens like to do, even though some of them simply cannot sing. However, no lack of hearing or voice can reduce a person’s immense love of singing, even if not on a large stage, but at least in the shower or karaoke bar. It doesn’t matter what emotions involuntary witnesses experience of such such a chic performance, the main thing is that you feel confident and absolutely wonderful. But, so as not to hurt the gentle hearing of the public, relaxing in a karaoke bar, you can rehearse your favorite songs in advance by playing them under a minus soundtrack, which can be done on your own from almost any audio file in which the vocals are present.
So, if you decide to make a backing track for yourself, it will be useful for you to learn how to remove a voice from a song, leaving only instrumental accompaniment. First of all, you need to make sure that the composition recorded on your computer is a stereo file. If the recording is monophonic, then it will be impossible to remove the voice component from it with improvised means. The easiest way to remove vocals from a song is Audacity. It needs to be installed on the computer. This is done very quickly and simply. Since this is a cross-platform program, it works great on a wide variety of operating systems.
Next, you need to open the selected sound file in it and click the down arrow to the right of the name of the track: a menu should appear, in which you should select the “Split stereo track” item. You will see two waveforms, each for its own channel. Select the bottom one, and then click “Invert” in the “Effects” menu. To remove a voice from a song, you need to turn each of both tracks into monophonic. To do this, use the menu that will appear each time you click on the above arrow, and select “Mono”. The result must be saved as a separate file, and then listen to it: a negative phonogram should be obtained.
If you are not satisfied with this method, how to remove a voice from a song, try in the same program, open the stereo file, go to the "Effects" menu and select Vocal Remover. In the window that appears, select the Removal Choice function and the Simple (entire spectrum) item. Click OK and wait a few seconds, after which you can listen to the recording again. However, it is also worth knowing that the voice will still not be completely deleted, but its volume will decrease quite significantly against the rest of the music, so when you start singing to the resulting minus, then extraneous sounds will not bother you.
Another way to remove a voice from a song is through the Audition program. It also needs to be installed on the computer and open the desired composition in it. Just like in the previous program, you will get oscillograms. Using the mouse on them, you need to select the necessary area on which you want to delete the voice, and then go to the Effects menu, in which select Filters, where, in turn, select Center Channel Extractor. A window with settings appears. In it, you will need the Presets function located on the right, where you select Vocal Remove and click OK. Now you need to wait a bit until the program finishes processing the selected fragment. The phonogram is ready, you can listen to it and save it as a separate file.
Knowing how to remove a voice from a song, you can at any time make a backing track for yourself and amuse yourself and your friends by singing to an almost full-fledged phonogram. Moreover, Audacity has a function with which you can record your own performance. This will allow you to listen to yourself from the outside and finally decide whether it’s time for you to go to the big stage, or still you should wait a while with this idea.