How To Remove Vocals From Any Song For Free (Easily Make High Quality Karaoke Tracks)

[@CCKaraoke]

Thanks for the shout out :) Vocal removal has come a long way in the last couple years and has inspired dozens of Karaoke channels to pop up on KZbin. I would also highly recommend 'Spectral Editing' to anyone who wants to bring their instrumental quality to the next level.

[@CCKaraoke]

@@UkulilyFilly Thanks :) There is a Mac program I believe because the channel Peareoke is a Mac user. I'm on Windows so I can really only recommend for that platform. (Karaoke Builder Studio)

[@bcboy123]

What is 'special editing'? Is it an app? I'm a bass player who is always interested in isolating bass lines from a mix. Thanks.

[@CCKaraoke]

@@bcboy123 Spectral Editing is when you view the audio as a kinda wall of colors instead of the usual up-down 'waveform'. So instead of the squiggly line representing the audio, it shows the audio in 'quiet and loud'. For example, all the white/blue colors are quiet sounds and the pink/red colors are loud sounds. Most audio editors like Audacity let you few the audio in 'Spectral mode'. Basically, it allows you to find out of place sounds and mute them out of the mix (or raise the volume of sounds you want to bring up in the mix).

[@alexrozynski7616]

Eyy! I love me some CC Karaoke when I'm doing the dishes :D

[@BLOCPARTY420]

Hey hey hey!

[@28469]

Mate, this dude has a KILLER voice, I was not expecting that

[@guitarheadhunt]

Vocal remover will let you download the tracks as an mp3 file. Then just import files to your daw. Way less time involved. The quality is just as good as recording into your daw.

[@zhairmagne2702]

was actually looking for a comment like this. this is the fastest way to go around it. download the updated file (vocals removed) then import it to daw. No much wiring involved.

[@Famousfifty8]

I came for the tutorial, but your vocals instantly drew me in. Amazing job sir.

[@chrisliepe]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for engaging with my videos!

[@henhenhen19]

With Soundflower, you can do that patch with just a few clicks and don't need any soundcard, cables or anything. Very easy to use when it's set up. Mostly as an advice for people without equipment.

[@kevinbishop6266]

Thank you for the info. What does the app sunflower look like because when I type it in I get I’m looking a lot of different apps and I don’t want to go down to rabbit hole with the wrong one.

[@Italliving]

@@kevinbishop6266 Soundflower is an open source kernel extension for MacOS, designed to create a virtual audio output device that can also act as an input.

[@justinwilson6089]

Dude thanks for actually helping people and just being awesome! You are what the world needs more of. This is the first video of selflessness we have seen on KZbin ever!

[@justinwilson6089]

In my opinion, I know it's literally not but it's for a point

[@Hoody1147]

Hell yes, this is awesome. I wanted to do this sort of as a fun thing. And didn’t want to spend days making music, just wanted to sing. This is perfect! Thank you world!

[@beastdude]

I paused the video, looked up the website, tried it out, and oh my god it works like a charm. I have a personal karaoke project going on and sourcing instrumentals was always a challenge, but now it looks like it's going to be super easy. I'm glad I stumbled across this video. Thanks a bunch. :D

[@happy-station4155]

OMG Thank you sooo much ! I love you !! .. I've been hitting my head in the wall with useless Adobe audition tutorial for hour's... after 2 minutes of you I fix my problem !! Thank you, again!

[@Jortyunofficial]

Um, was NOT expecting that DOPEEEEE singing intro. What in the world. Your voice is wild.

[@hezzazz]

Looking for a way to record my wife's favourite song as a surprise. Unfortunately, being a 76 year old technophobe, I didn't understand any of this but I had to comment on you're fantastic voice. 👍

[@Verårtu]

That's really cute !!!!

[@rgkong8783]

What ever happened sir?

[@theknowledgeisyourvictory5950]

मुझे इंग्लिश नहीं आती, फिर भी आपके विडिओ देख कर समझने कि कोशिश करता रहा। बहुत ही अच्छी जानकारी आपने दिया लोगों को।

[@ashbankswav]

Wow his voice is amazing! Wasn't expecting this in this tutorial. I shall keep watching lol

[@zako9482]

Mate, I am a musician and I can't explain how much this has helped me. 💯💯❤

[@NeXusZT]

Absolutely can't wait to try this. I love mixing vocals into already mixed tracks.

[@dansharrio]

Chris, thank you for posting all of these instructional videos. I've been making music for over 15 years and never feel like the information in my head is valuable enough to share with the world. You help inspire me, and realize what is obvious to you might be obvious to few. Some people have been recently asking me to give them vocal lessons, and I didn't feel qualified until watching hours of your content. You helped me organize all of the things I already knew but didn't know how to translate to other people in a way that makes sense. For example, teaching someone to do the lip buzz warm up. Seemed so obvious to me, but for people that didn't grow up as singers, that's completely new information.

[@alienrpgmusic7014]

Holy crap, I feel like others here in that I was just here for the tutorial as well but that intro with the singing was freakin' awesome!

[@benfisher9259]

I was soo excited to see this dude sing audioslave like "this mf know what's up"

[@davidbirkes7308]

Holy moly bro from one vocalist to another you a freaking talented. Cornell is one of my favorites because he is honestly one of the hardest ranges to imitate

[@fenderfox5080]

About 6 months ago I was trying to do this same thing lol, I hit a dead end and gave up.... thanks for breaking this all down Chris, much appreciated 🤘

[@davidasher22]

You could also use an iOS device into a Mac with a cable. It’s called an iDAM connection. After you enable the iPhone or iPad in the audio/midi set up window on the Mac you can use the iOS device like an interface/input into your DAW. Any sound coming from the phone can be recorded straight onto a stereo track. Great for ripping mixing references from iTunes/ Apple Music. There’s also no analog conversion. Also, any music apps s like synths or drum ,achines can be recorded right into your DAW too. Then there’s the MaiDI side of it! I won’t get all detailed but you basically can send and receive midi between Machines. I use it all the time.

[@giannovicente8066]

Thank You for broadcasting this! This is way easier than what I used to do! I joined them too

[@barbarianatgate2000]

So, the pros and cons of this. Pro: This is FREAKING AMAZING SOFTWARE! It does an outstanding job! Con: It may have been free at the time of making this video. But when I wanted to see how good a job it would do, I grabbed just any audio file on my system (happened to be Billy Joel's "The Stranger.") Did a great job. So I went hunting for the file I really wanted to use for a project. Went back to the screen and uploaded the file, and got a message saying "Too many requests from your IP address. Please try again later or become a patron." I write a lot of parody stuff. While I'm a musician (okay, a bass player, but it's still close) I can't record everything I want to do. Asking other players to help out is not only time consuming, but also becomes a bit of an unwelcome entity when asking for their time either free or at significantly reduced rate. So, a second song is "too many requests" under the free format. The minimum patron level is $5.00 per month (renews automatically.) While it is an outstanding program, this video should be updated in terms of the process being free, with at least an asterisk by the claim. Not saying it's not worth it, not saying it doesn't work beautifully. Just manage your expectations if you plan to do a ton of your music. It's either not going to be free, or will take you an incredibly long time.

[@mjk1457]

thank you so much, amazing comment

[@olivierveilleux2292]

You ABSOLUTELY NAILED that Audioslave track man! Wow what a voice you got \m/

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks!!

[@juanjosesalvadorromero4198]

This is amazing, not only for vocals but to practice and listen to your selft with the instrumental without it colliding with the original one. Thanks very much, helpful as always!

[@johnwalter6410]

Holy shit this guys got a powerful voice

[@RodKruz]

I was impressed with the vocal technique you used at the end of the song. I always thought they cut the track or used a plug-in. Great video 👍🏼

[@chrisliepe]

Glad you liked it!

[@guitarheadhunt]

I thought he hit his chest. My old drummer told me to use the method Chris employed here. I think the light throat tape is a little more authentic but the chest bump gives a similar result.

[@MiloDRough]

Cornell has done it on few shows live, and some recorded studio session ^^

[@RodKruz]

@@MiloDRough Thanks, I'll look for it.

[@crazymelomanka]

Chris Cornell did the same thing

[@blixxy1320]

that was the best cornell impression I’ve ever heard dude I subbed for that alone

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed!

[@guruhood4795]

That intro was Super Dope 🔥🔥🔥 I had to start the video over 😂 I’m here to Learn but definitely Got my subscription with that vocal performance 🫡

[@ashdeen]

Your rendition of show me how to live is amazing. Love what you did with the chorus as well.

[@MetalHead62]

Show Me How to Live is one of my favorite songs, and Sir you did it damn proud!

[@jayfunk13]

I just found this video doing a search on how to remove vocals from a track and my biggest take away is holy shit this guy has an awesome voice!

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks!! Hope you'll check out more of my videos! :)

[@physiognomyprofessor3970]

FYI - if you have Cubase Pro, with Spectra Layers you can import an audio file into it and unmix the vocals from within the DAW, saving a step or 2. I tested it, and it has the same effect. Make sure you add SpectraLayers as the track extension, highlight the audio clip, go to the editor window. In the Layer menu, select Unmix vocals and follow the dialog boxes.

[@theknowledgeisyourvictory5950]

मैं केरियोके साँग बेहद पसंद करता हूँ और ऐसा Vocal remover पहली बार मिला है। आश्चर्यजनक तरीके से काम करता है ये Vocal remover. Amazing Result.

[@afternoonbears6989]

It's just so cool to see how YOU are creating your awesome shit! I'm gonna try them out!

[@HNXMedia]

This was awesome! Some how it was super fun to see someone explain "old school techniques" to a generation that is so reliant on streaming and wireless tech. Priceless!

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks for appreciating that approach haha. I agree. Lots of comments about how dumb it was that I run REAL WIRES to route my sound!

[@HNXMedia]

@@chrisliepe All credit to you. Them young 'uns don't understand...if it's hardwired, it won't fail. Also, "companies" can't take away MP3s, CDs or any physical media. But their entire "digital cloud libraries" could be gone in the blink of an eye. Keep up the great work.

[@sweetstinger6515]

I mean I wanted to find out how to get soundtracks but your voice is sick operations man! Wow 🙌🏽

[@cassio-fm]

Your tips and tricks are amazing, where was this channel when I was just starting to learn music?! hgahaga. Thanks Chris, you are amazing :D

[@Prod.ByBankHeadAce]

im 30 seconds in and already like the vid, you deserve a sub!!!! !

[@basketballguyOCE]

This was helpful and entertaining :) Plus you shredded that song in the booth. Unreal!

[@isaacarana7711]

man you are a life saver! all 5 flavors in fact!

[@romantheomen]

Nice shout out to CC Karaoke. I'm following them for a few years now and have used their tracks in our local karaoke bar. Great Video btw too :)

[@chrisliepe]

LOVE CC Karaoke! Great channel...amazing sounding stuff!

[@SEVgiKaraca-ty5yq]

Thank u soo much really! And hi from Turkey 🤗 🙋You can't even imagine how you help people who wants to make they dreams come through, thank you 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@AxellBrooks]

YOU ARE A F'ING HERO CHRIS!

[@joshdoesstuff763]

This channel is a safe place for me. All my bandmates HATE Chris Cornell’s music. Because of Soundgarden, I write in some VERY odd time signatures (one song I’m working on alternates between 8/8 and 8/9 according to my drummer). I’m glad that you appreciate his music so much!

[@chrisbassartist4344]

8/8 is same as 4/4 think you’re confused with 8/9 though no such thing…just trying to help not putting you down or anything

[@joshdoesstuff763]

@@chrisbassartist4344 well I guess my drummer is confused or I misquoted him. Either are equally likely lol.

[@chrisbassartist4344]

@@joshdoesstuff763 hey no problem just trying to help

[@joshdoesstuff763]

@@chrisbassartist4344 nahhh I don’t mind. If anything, the fact that neither my drummer or I know the time signature reiterates the idea that Soundgarden screwed my ability to write in a single time sig.

[@fmutidjo]

Great presentation; however as a beginner I would love to see a diagram showing the connection of "that cable" into the computer and audio interface. Thanks

[@avamaria8447]

me too lol

[@jacquelinevanbierk]

I love your voice!

[@jazzkidheavyweight]

Ooooooh my God... Thanks so much boss. Keep going on i was not expecting such results.

[@pyrrhustacandong9426]

Chris, you are doing such an amazing job. You helped me with how I want my karaoke should be. Thanks a lot, again !

[@clocked0]

Alternatively instead of using a physical interface, you can use Voicemeeter to route output audio from a desktop application like Spotify into a microphone output, and use that "microphone" within audacity to record an entire song.

[@WhiteCr_0w]

no way you're doing chris cornell already :o I'm pleasantly surprised. Also thanks so much for the tip because I've been wondering how ya'll do it. Now I can start covering :)

[@chrisliepe]

YESSSS

[@zenginellc]

Holy hell, you have an amazing singing voice... 😳

[@grandmaenjoysmusic]

In reaper you can record loopback audio with no cables ;)

[@GarrettCampbell]

This seems like it should not be allowed! XD Wow, what a great hack! I got your email announcing this video right when I began planning some vocal covers for my own channel, so it was great timing. This hack is going to save me hours. 👍

[@arsham9588]

Imagin being able to sing over any high budget beat from professionals Thanks chris as allways your the best

[@jamiegunn]

Very cool!! Thank you Chris. Definitely something to try out.

[@ShadowErazer258]

Thanks Chris. I was looking for a guide on how to remove vocals from the song , i was trying to get the results by myself but i gave up. And then with your help i can do anything.

[@angrageous]

dude... I almost feel bad about how easy that was. mindblowing. thank you!

[@chrisliepe]

You're welcome!

[@zacharysmithingell5460]

Holy sh*t Chris I watched this and recorded 5 A Perfect Circle covers immediately. This is amazing. Maybe I should think about recording some videos and throwing em on KZbin using this method...

[@chrisliepe]

You should totally do that!

[@originalvonster]

Thank you, I was wondering how to quickly play something on my monitors this confirmed that and showed me something I haven't thought of doing. I wasn't sure whether laptop headphone ports were line-level or not and whether that was the same as hi-z. I assume this could be done with one port if using mini-jack to stereo jack for people with one input. For paid software, Izotope RX9 music rebalance is good too - similar results to this but you can kinda split out vocals, bass and drums as well. Hawkeye is a good tool for listening to left, right, sides and mid info too. I would've flunked transcription and analysis without these plugins. We had to analyse High Hopes by Panic at The Disco and I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that by listening to the info on the sides I was able to hear one of the songwriters singing backing vocals and she wasn't even credited, so weird. I had no idea there were even female backing vocals in it before doing that. Maybe the lead vocals were recorded over her scratch vocals and they forgot to take it out.

[@chrisliepe]

Nice... ya lots of good tools out there! I've used RX9 on some of them too, and it does very well! Lots of flexibility!

[@Cade_Bouta]

Chris, thank you so much! I’ve learned so many valuable tips and tricks from you and your videos.

[@pacochoir1347]

Thank you very much, as a music teacher I really needed this tool for the children's choir I have and direct. I tried with the audacity program but it let me down. Yours is easy, easy to use and above all fast, many many thanks from Greece!!!!!

[@photobyTaps]

Thank you. I used to convert songs to MIDI and then back to WAV for burning to CD

[@VidBroGaming]

voicemeeter bannana is really good for recording music to a file directly from your computer without routing it out. I like cables too though.

[@crazymelomanka]

Wow!! thank you so much for sharing! I was looking for good quality karaoke tracks to record my covers to, also checked the CC karaoke channel and already found one of my favourite songs there.

[@zachwhitehorn7926]

Damn dude you have incredible control.😮

[@syrompicturez2917]

Thank you Chris. It worked for me. I took literally two mins or less I think to do this using Clip Grab & FCP X. After getting the audio track go ahead though I did and do some tweaking In Final Cut Pro to match with my vocals. Turned out pretty good so thanks a million for this bit of info.

[@fichshreds2661]

Wow! This works so well even for metal songs with growls and screams. Thanks man!

[@burcingursoy6562]

your voice is crazy good mate

[@chrisliepe]

Hey, thanks!

[@pankajsaxena466]

This helped me sooo much! I always wanted to create remix ver of songs but I couldn't remove the vocals! Thank u soo much chris!

[@andrewn4695]

Thank you for the information. I have been using C C Karaoke tracks to do vocal covers. This will help, a lot! Lucky for me, I have been around long enough to have most of my audio files on a high def player, and the CD's too!

[@alkohallick2901]

This seems to be the best free way available to do this.

[@MSLmsl]

Hey Chris and everyone. There is a python tool called spleeter, which is using deep neural networks to isolate the vocals and instruments. I am pretty sure that website is using this tool, which is incredible to be honest. I have managed to put up some scripts and am doing full albums(separating vocals and instrumental), which I am then uploading to my channel. Thanks for sharing this with the world! Always enjoying your content. :)

[@Fridayfridge]

Much appreciated! Awesome cover of show me how to live by the way 👍 you were born to sing!

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks so much!! :) !!

[@starlights5749]

THANK U MAN i can finally do karaoke of my favorite song

[@TheBobist]

you can use obs free to screen/audio record the songs and import the video into the site and it will do the same. your way of recording is a bit complicated compared to doing that

[@TysonBowmanMusic]

Thanks for the tip Chris. The internal cable routing software is called Loopback.

[@WhirlOmar]

Thanks. You can also do the same exact thing on Adobe Audition. I got the same exact result.

[@Weloz92]

Thank you Chris, this is incredibly useful! It's really hard to find instrumental tracks for specific, unknown songs 👌

[@Tiger4ever89]

WOW! i am making my favorite Karaoke songs bcuz of you now! thank youuuu!

[@Bluejanza]

I was buying albums of my favorite bands so I could listen in non compressed formats. So I guess I do have files. Will have to try this all after work.

[@skay1992]

Man you got some sick vocals subbed

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Roalfa28]

Thank you so much, Chris! I was using anothewr software to do this, but it was WAY worse! The results from this site you suggested is AWESOME!

[@GlamourSwinexXx]

Dear Chris, some of us have nearly a terabyte of music files, we don't all just stream lol

[@chrisliepe]

This is refreshing to hear :) !!

[@DustinTavo]

Jesus Christ that’s actually fantastic! I did it in pro tools just now and it doesn’t even slightly compare. That’s amazing. Smule just got way better for me. Also maybe useless too now haha.

[@talsofer4940]

this is amazing! it works great!!! thank you so much!

[@hosseinyeganehfarid6659]

Thank you so very much for interodusing this website

[@DougRG]

I wanna see your post processing for that Cornell vocal you did. That sounds incredible.

[@cvc778]

Precise and easy explanation Thanks for taking the time to do this Very useful information I can see I'm like the one million and a half person that says "thank you", so it might not mean a lot to you any more. But seriously, for the third time, thank you!

[@chrisliepe]

Every thank you means a lot to me.

[@Skoggiss]

Vocalremover is sick, thanks so much!

[@TrapMasterBeats]

great work!!awesome,i have no words!

[@scorchthesun]

Thanks Chris! This is actually super useful!

[@chrisliepe]

Glad you found it so! :)

[@kenruffellerealestatesales4045]

Awesome pipes bro!!

[@greydazeplays]

This is so cool thank you so much Chris. Great cover as always

[@gilldanier4129]

Wow, this is mind blowing! Thanks a bunch for this, just what I need. Subbed

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks for the sub!

[@khushboodugar3766]

This was a great tool, thank you so much.

[@jonq8714]

I played guitard in a band in high school where the vocalist was god awful, but the music was enjoyable enough to want to try this out.

[@nicolaselmouhed2483]

For everything, you are the best ;)

[@chrisliepe]

Thanks :) !! And thanks for watching and engaging!

[@whitefantom]

This vocal remover sounds much better than others I've heard, so I'll definitely be using this tool for that alone if nothing else. They also have other things on the website, like pitch changing, bpm finding, and key finding, but I'm not sure how accurate the key finder is - I put in a song I know is in F minor, but it said it was in F major (which would be D minor). I even went back to my keyboard and figured out the notes myself to make sure I wasn't just misremembering what key I thought it was in, but it's absolutely in F minor, just like I thought, so I don't know why this tool thinks it's in F major. (for reference, the song I uploaded was this one, in case there's something I'm not realizing about the key: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3zOYqhrh7KHpJY ).

[@RecordingStudio9]

Vocal remover will let you download the tracks as an mp3 file after it encodes. Download buttons on the right.

[@MissMieww]

Oh !! I was looking for something like that for soooooo long ! Wanted to work on a French old nu metal version of a classic funk song, instrumental is nowhere on the web. Love that, and the possibility of downloading each file directly on the pc Thx from France !