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I am entirely new to audio editing, and one of the things I am trying to do is remove vocals from a song. I have tried using the center channel extractor to do this, but it has not worked properly. How would I go about doing this?
Here is the song that I am trying to remove the vocals from:
This is not going to be easy, the vocal is all over the stereo-field so using a centre-channel extractor unsurprisingly didn't work well.
Except if the vocal track is fairly unprocessed and clean, its actually very difficult to remove it from the recording.
You could try using a spectral editor like iZotope RX, and remove it manually, or some clever automation with EQ or even perhaps a multi-band compressor.
It's usually less hassle to try to get the authors to send you the instrumental mix.
edit: I forgot, Audition has a built-in spectral editor (albeit less powerful than RX), so you could try with that.
