Removing Guitar from tracks? - Guitars101

**Wolfkiel** · 03-15-2005, 11:08 AM

Hey guys,
Once again thanks for all the hard work and posting BT's. I would like to start contributing so I would like to know how to remove guitars from existing songs and post those. I've heard a few of them on the site and would be willing to work at it. If anyone knows how to do it please let me know. Thanks again

POD GOD · 03-15-2005, 12:59 PM

I will be posting a tutorial on this very soon

**Wolfkiel** · 03-15-2005, 02:25 PM

Mucho Thanks

**ricklepotamous** · 03-15-2005, 03:23 PM

you can kind of do it with audition,

load the track in multi track view.
then click edit view, click favourites, click vocal remove.
this takes the centre channel out which takes most of the vocal and quite a lot of the guitar mainly lead.
it's fine for jamming with and works well with lots of tracks especially acdc stuff it totally removes most of angus.

GROS · 03-16-2005, 12:35 PM

thats cool, thanks

03-20-2005, 03:43 AM

Which programms do you use

Rythameen · 03-30-2005, 10:13 AM

Hey Pod, any ETA on that vocal removal tute? Not being pushy or anything

Actually what I am trying to do is remove the guitar from a Larry Carlton ballad. I tried YoGen vocal remover and the vocal remover in Audition since the guitar is panned down the center. but there is still quite a bit of guitar sound from what I am guessing is the stereo reverb that was put on it. Is there anyway to minimize that sort of thing? Or do I just have to learn how to play keyboards and bass?

ROM · 03-30-2005, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ricklepotamous

you can kind of do it with audition,

load the track in multi track view.
then click edit view, click favourites, click vocal remove.
this takes the centre channel out which takes most of the vocal and quite a lot of the guitar mainly lead.
it's fine for jamming with and works well with lots of tracks especially acdc stuff it totally removes most of angus.

Interesting...I would like to hear a sample of Audition removing guitars... Anyone have one??? Thanks!

POD GOD · 04-01-2005, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rythameen

Hey Pod, any ETA on that vocal removal tute? Not being pushy or anything

Actually what I am trying to do is remove the guitar from a Larry Carlton ballad. I tried YoGen vocal remover and the vocal remover in Audition since the guitar is panned down the center. but there is still quite a bit of guitar sound from what I am guessing is the stereo reverb that was put on it. Is there anyway to minimize that sort of thing? Or do I just have to learn how to play keyboards and bass?

Sorry man, been kinda busy lately, got three collabs going, new baby in da house keeping me up all night, lol, work and all that good stuff. Shit, I still have 60-70 backings that I created a while back that I haven't posted! I will get this done though... just don't know when

Rythameen · 04-01-2005, 02:33 PM

That's cool, I've tried everything I could find on the net, and I think that once the reverb is that wide in the stereo field, there is no getting it out.

Wetbed · 07-11-2005, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ROM

Interesting...I would like to hear a sample of Audition removing guitars... Anyone have one??? Thanks!

I tried it but it doesn't always work often it takes out the bass drum from the drum kit some work fine like Satriani stuff it depends on the mix ??

d00m · 10-15-2005, 01:11 PM

I tried audition the way ricklepotamous suggested.

It works for the most part. Works best on songs with no vocals and only lead guitar. Really good with some of Stevie Ray Vaughans stuff.

bbach · 03-06-2006, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ricklepotamous

you can kind of do it with audition,

load the track in multi track view.
then click edit view, click favourites, click vocal remove.
this takes the centre channel out which takes most of the vocal and quite a lot of the guitar mainly lead.
it's fine for jamming with and works well with lots of tracks especially acdc stuff it totally removes most of angus.

When you say "audition" do you mean Adobe Audition?

lamotta77 · 03-10-2006, 03:17 PM

The ONLY songs I've heard with the guitar removed from the song are ones where the all the guitar parts are panned completely to the left or right channel. In this manner, you can easily load the file into recording software, pan it to the opposite channel of the guitar, double the track to make it stereo, and then mix it down. I recorded a version of "Whole Lotta Love" by using a backing track that was created this way...came out pretty decent...like I was filling in for Jimmy Page...lol! Of course, Jimmy used a lot of reverb in the song so some of the guitar bleed into the other channel. Once you play over it, you couldn't hear his guitar at all.

Is this the only way or are there other ways? I sense that unless you actually had the master tapes it would be impossible to do. Can Audition really do this?

bbach · 03-12-2006, 04:26 AM

I've been having this discussion on other music sites. The general consession is that you can remove the frequencies where the bulk of the guitar parts exist, but you will remove anything else there also, thus, if the guitar and bass cross over, both will be removed. I'd sure like to see the tutorial mentioned above. It would be interesting.