How-To: Turn Your Music into Karaoke Tracks

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By Matt Richardson
Posted 2011/03/19 @ 6:00 am
Category Computers & Mobile, Music

If you’re a maker that likes to let your inner Michael Bublé or Beyoncé out, How-To Geek has a step-by-step guide to using Audacity to remove the vocal tracks from your favorite song. Here’s how it works:

Vocals are normally placed in the “center channel.” Stereo tracks have two channels, but not all of the instruments are balanced evenly. Sometimes the bass is pushed more towards the right channel, rhythm guitar might be found more towards the left, and so on. Usually the vocals are put dead center, so we can split the stereo track and invert one channel. This cancels out the vocals but leaves the rest in tact.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go start my vocal warm ups.

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8 Responses to How-To: Turn Your Music into Karaoke Tracks

Anonymous on March 19th, 2011 at 8:54 pm said:

Hehe.. Can we haz video of Matt singing??

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Ed Kramer on March 20th, 2011 at 5:34 am said:

All well and good but how the heck do you burn them to CD/DVD to use them?

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- Simone Sacchi on March 20th, 2011 at 12:28 pm said:
  
  Once made, export track to .wav and burn it on your cd like a normal track.
  
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  Ronnie Hinton on March 21st, 2011 at 1:45 pm said:
  
  I think he meant how do you make a CD-G, I’m aware they’re done with one channel doing audio and the other lyric data, but I’ve never seen a good article on how to make them or how the lyric track is formatted.
  
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  Ronnie Hinton on March 21st, 2011 at 1:45 pm said:
  
  I think he meant how do you make a CD-G, I’m aware they’re done with one channel doing audio and the other lyric data, but I’ve never seen a good article on how to make them or how the lyric track is formatted.
  
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Dave Rogge on March 29th, 2011 at 1:00 am said:

This is an ok trick and will remove most of a vocal track some of the time, but usually there’s a stereo reverb effect on the vocals, which you can’t remove in this manner.

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Dave Rogge on March 29th, 2011 at 1:02 am said:

This is an ok method that will remove some of the vocals from some songs some of the time. The only way to know for sure is to try. Usually, though, there is a stereo reverb effect on the vocals which can’t be removed with this method

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ジュン on April 7th, 2011 at 8:48 am said:

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