Thread: This is Halloween track

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Folks,

For those that have the Nightmare before Christmas CD, can you tell me if the vocals are on a different channel then the music. I'm trying to run the mp3 track I have through a waveform analysis in VSA but it's also picking up the music track.

Z

Hmm... if you have the original CD then you may be able to pull something out of it. As far as I'm aware there is no way to do this with MP3 as the format does not support more than 2 channels.

this topic has come up before... I downloaded one of those free trial sound editing programs and riped the CD to MP3. then I played the CD into headsets and sang/recorded the vocals part into a mike on my computer (not to worry - it wont be heard and does not need to be good) - this gave me three channels. I combinied the left and right channels into the left channel, then synced my voice on the right channel. left to speakers - right to color organ. music plays but the prop is only active when i sing.
-gdg-

Hey, that's a pretty neat idea, gravedigger_greg! That's exactly how I create the delays between my lightning and thunder - never thought of using the same technique for songs.

ya... worked well... you can break out the lead singer from the back ground vocals.... and you dont even need to know the words... funny how halloween and squeky clean have the same mouth movements to a prop.

La La La LAA LAA LLaa la Laaa La Laa la... first line to "this is halloween soundtrack" or bum bum bo bo bum if you dont like LA


bet you tried it...


just sitting here thinking about all you guys singing along... LOL

-gdg-

LOL... the vision of that is very funny. I'd probably need a couple of beers first.

Looks like that is the way to go then! I've also heard you can tap your finger on the mic to the beat and that yields the same results. I'll try singing tonight with the lyrics I pulled down into Audacity.

America Idol here I come!!!!!!

Z

Gravedigger's right on track here, it was with his help I just did the same thing to Stephen Lynch's "Halloween". I used Audacity, combined both the stereo tracks to one channel, and the my wife (God love her!) patiently sat down and re-sang the lyrics into a mike and recorded it on the now blank second channel. What you end up with is a mono-recording of your music and one of the recording you just made. Get an RCA splitteer cable and run one track to a speaker (sound will only come out of the one, unless you do a bit of re-wiring) and the other track to your device. A little fine tuning on Audacity and it will all work great. Audacity will let you edit out unwanted stuff from your original musuc track as well as let you place as much "dead-air" at the begining or end of the recording as you need. It's a free download, just takes a bit to figure it out. Good Luck!

zeenon... and you dont need to know the words... i found that bum bum bum worked better

bum....bum......BUM..BUM..BUM definitely works better then tapping or singing/saying the works. The only issue I ran into, was the song is so FAST I was running out of breath. I'm sure I could of broke it up into 1 minute segments in Audacity but I wasn't about to learn a new program last night .

So I imported into VSA, ran the wave analysis on the new MP3, then switched the MP3 back to the original. Worked GREAT!

Z