Thread: How do you sample jsut a lyric froma song?

i know this is a noob question, but I am after some lyric samples that i can throw into a mix - ie "you're inside the biggest rave on earth" from hardcore will never die by qbass for example. how do you jsut strip out the lyrics from a tune, then haev that on mp3?

preferably free software.

cheers

As far as i know its hard to get a freeware program that does it, they at best offer some shit soultion where they just turn down the music over the vocal parts of the track and since its not ever nearly as strong as a professional software editor you can still here the music! I think i have that sample on my other HDD i'll look tomorrow for ya mate

The most basic procedure is to load a stereo Wave file of the original song into an audio editor program, flip the polarity of one channel and lower the bass level somewhat, and then combine the left and right channels into a new, mono track. I use Sound Forgefrom Sonic Foundry, which includes all the tools needed to manipulate audio files this way. Most other 2-track audio editors have similar capabilities, and this technique will apply to those programs as well. Sound Forge lets you load a single stereo file, manipulate the left and right channels separately, and then combine them to mono all within one edit window. But for these instructions, I split the channels into separate files to make each step easier to follow.

1. Load the original stereo file.
2. Copy just the left channel to a new edit window.
3. Copy just the right channel to another new edit window.
4. * Reverse the polarity of the new left channel.
5. * Apply a low end shelf cut starting at 200 Hz (at least 12 dB/octave) to the new left channel.
6. Paste the processed left channel into the new right channel in Mix mode (not Overwrite).
7. Audition the result and, if it's acceptable, save it to a new Wave file.

I copyed this from another post on the net
however i have used this prossess many times
it can yeald good results depending on Mix

thanks for the updates chaps. TBH i think that sounds too much like hard work for me

The best way is to find the original vocal on its own.

Try to find out where qbass sampled that vocal from and grab it your self

I heard somewhere its a sample from a Live event by one of the MC's.