Any way to take vocals out of CD tracks to just burn off instrumental?

Answer 1

no, it is impossible to completely remove vocals from a song. even expensive hardware sometimes leaves a very faint vocal on a song.

in fact if you were to go buy a karaoke or backing track cd (only instrumentals as it were) you're NOT buying the original song stripped of the vocals - you're buying a re-created version of the music made by professional musicians to sound as close to the original as possible.

there is a reason for this, and not just because it's not easy to actually remove vocals.

if you COULD remove the vocals, who would buy this instrumental version? people who presumably want to either re-use it in a song or who want to perform the song in public - and this is where copyright issues come into play - you'd *technically* have to pay royalties if you performed that backing music in public, and companies selling the actual version minus the vocals would get nailed by the music industry for copying their music and not giving the artist their chunk of cash. crazy huh?

SO, for instrumental/karaoke versions they are copied by studio musicians so people can be perform to the music and so the company making the cds won't have to pay royalties to the artist.

basically, get the karaoke version of the cd track(s) you want, whether bought or downloaded - often you can't tell the difference because they're that good and you can get a karaoke version of literally any song out.

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Answer 2

you CAN do it, but not without millions of dollars worth of equipment and technological know how on computer sound imaging with a good amount of backbreaking labor tied into it. basically, you're not going to be able to do it as a private corporation, and even companies more or less don't do this kind of thing because it's cheaper to just re-record.

Answer 3

A good karaoke software for PC is VanBasco. You can download it for free here http://bitly.com/1rH6vre
Try it out

Answer 4

difficult process