Mack,

The goal of this exercise is to remove as much instruments as possible.
Sort of making an acapella.

I got your email with the MP3 attachments. If you don't mind I'll move the
discussion back here.

Can you suggest any other methods?

I don't know of any reasonable way to do this. You can often remove vocals,
but removing everything BUT vocals is a different matter. As evidence, the
MP3 you sent sounded terrible to me. I don't consider that useable even for
fooling around. If you want to experiment with remixes - and you don't care
if it's a famous tune - you'd do better to buy some Acid type Wave file
loops of vocal snippets. Then you can add new stuff to that.

I heard you can do this also using an equalizer, do u know of any good
equalizer?

No, you can't remove or keep instruments with EQ. Too many of the sounds
overlap and have content in a range of bands. For example, if you cut out
all the treble to get rid of a vocal, you also cut out the cymbals. And you
can still hear the vocals, if a little muffled.

--Ethan