On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:08:12 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote
(in article ):
There's another way to remove the vocals -- and without losing
the stereo -- but I don't know if there's any software package
to implement it.
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Yeah, tons of them. One recent one I've played with is Waves Center:
http://www.waves.com/Content.aspx?id=8885
available for RTAS, VST, and TDM.
Center allows you to adjust the level of phantom center vocals, and actually
does a pretty good job. I think it's not really designed for removing vocals
per se, but it will at least cut out the phantom center, which will
*sometimes* remove the lead vocal. But (as has been previously mentioned) it
also snips out any other instruments in the center channel as well, and any
reverb or backup vocals in the hard left and hard right channels will still
be there.
There are also Dolby Pro Logic surround decoders available as software
plug-ins, but they're not cheap.
--MFW