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| From | Andrew Hickey <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: lost member needs help! on classical music... |
| Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:56:51 +0100 |
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On 15/09/05, kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i come to you on bended knee seeking the answer to a
> question from my sis-in-law: how does one get an
> instrument track off of a recording? Is it possible,
> or do we give home-recording technology too much
> credit? What she'd like to do is take the flute (for
> instance) track off of a, say, Boston Pop's recording,
> so she can practice to the flute part...then PLAY the
> flute part to the actual recording WITHOUT the flute
> part.
>
> er...if that made sense to anyone, can you tell us if
> we're just crazy dreamers or not?
>
> your humble, technologically challanged lurker,
It's *SORT* of possible, sometimes, in some situations, but probably
not in the case you're talking about.
Basically, if the flute track is dead centre in the stereo spectrum,
you can electronically 'subtract' one side of the stereo spectrum from
the other, leaving a mono track without anything from the centre. Most
audio programs have facilities to do this (usually labelled 'karaoke'
, but I've also seen it referred to as OOPSing, for Out-Of-Phase
Stereo).
This can be used to remove lead vocals and guitar solos from many
recordings (you can also reverse the process and get *only* the lead
vocal and guitar solo). But it's only possible if the stereo mix is
fairly wide, which isn't true for most classical recordings. You can't
just choose 'flute' or whatever, you can only get rid of left, middle
or right channel.
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