Removing certain sound effects from vocals.

[Motivfs]

My first post heh, guess everyone has to start somewhere, thanks to StevenAD for showing me this site. anyways...

I am just finishing up a remix at the moment, my first one ever, I have been trying hone some skills at making my own instrumental using Adobe Audition, and then using that instrumental to take out the vocals of the original (before I made it an instrumental) to make an acapella.

Now, lets say my song was (and actually is) a "Winter Wrap Up Remix" because I truly love the song, now how do I go about removing sound effects (not actually the instruments) from it, I guess it would just be tweaking? But for the most part they sit in there regardless, which is where I feel I either let it sit and live with it sounding amateurish, or drown it with a bass or pad, something like that.

Now for anyone who has remixed Winter Wrap Up before, I'm sure you know the part where they go "Winter Wrap Up Winter Wrap Upppp" that it seems impossible to remove the sound effects/instruments from it without taking the vocals with it, I've tried layering it with some vocodex, and it has worked to an extent, I've yet to really attempt to EQ it and I've tried Maximus, but still, I might have to live with the instruments in there.

If there are any tips on how to better the vocals in THIS song and other songs that might have this problem in the near future, your help would be appreciated.

[Freewave]

you'd have to mute that particular frequency or cut those sounds if it wasn't attached to a vocal piece. you might really need to go in there with scalpel to do that. no real easy way once you've processed 5.1 sounds and the vocals AND the sound effects remain in the same channel (which they do).

[Motivfs]

Well, I just read another thread on the site here, about EQing and how it makes a big difference to boost the 400-500Hz Frequencies, and remove the same frequencies from the pads/other synths, and so far, I must say, it has worked pretty well, including the muddy parts that still had some instruments (the winter wrap up chorus?). I wish I was more out there in experimenting, but so far it has helped ALOT more.

So basically, I did what you just said before you said it?

But in all honestly thank you for the post and advice thus far, I really, really do appreciate it.

[Seven]

EQing it would be you the way to go...though, that might not remove all the sound.

Now, skip the rest of the post if you're not ready to leap that mile straight out seas.

Besides from mailing the studio itself, you could try and find the effects library, and the exact sound (as they sound unaltered). If I'm right (basing this on what Victor Frost said during a con) It's from a standard cartoon effect library, and should be relatively easy to find (relative with contacting the studio and getting them to release an all song version.) This may cost (a lot) depending on copyright licences and whatnot. If you can find those specific sounds, the rest is a cakewalk served upon a silver spoon.

First, reducing the quality and file-format to what the show published, and then inverting the sound, placing it in the exact spot as the sound in the song. This will cancel the sound out, and leave the rest - without reducing frequency bands.

You up for that?


EDIT: I will give you a read through this post before I delete it. Never realized how stupid I sound.

[Motivfs]

Lol I did read the post, and wow, that's nut, I understand what your talking about though, it's like sounds I hear from games that are in movies, they're reused effects that can probably be found in an effect soundbank on the internet somewhere, that would probably remove most of it.

The song is done by now, I got rid of most of the effects from it with an EQ around certain FQ, and the rest I lived with it or layered it with another sound to drown it out without taking away from the vocals.

But I absolutely get what your saying, I use adobe audition to get rid of most of the sounds, usually works for the most part except for as I said the sound effects layered in the same channel as some of the vocals.