Jamvox

[John M.]

Anyone worked with the Jamvox.. used for extracting guitar parts and leaving the backing intact?

john m

[didier]

Oct 25, 2009 18:13:02 GMT John M. said:

Anyone worked with the Jamvox.. used for extracting guitar parts and leaving the backing intact?
john m

It only works with suitable stereo mix, and the same can be done on a PC with many audio softwares.

Didier

[John M.]

Thanks for that.
I did listen to the examples on the vox site, but wasnt too impressed.
I just wanted to find out if it was really a useable item for shadows tracks.
You have just save me £130....thanks.

John M.

[graeme]

Oct 25, 2009 18:25:11 GMT John M. said:

You have just save me £130

£130 buys a lot of proper backing tracks!

[didier]

I have a friend who tried to make BTs from Shadows recordings, and found out some which had a suitable mix for that. As far as I know he did that with the Adobe Audition software on PC.
All his recordings on this page (ambiance de l'original) from his personal site were made using such BTs :
gtabis.free.fr/Soundfiles.html

There are many dedicated sofwares for the same purpose, often called "voice eliminator" or something similar, as they are are intented to eliminate the singer on sung tunes to make karaoke backings. But of course it works the same with an instrumental solist.
But it only works well when the solist is recorded in perfect mono (same phase and amplitude on both channels), and with a backing in real stereo.
The JamVox is of course based on the same principles.
There are also a few recordings from the early sixties (at the time of "ping pong" stereo) with the solist on one channel, and the backing on the other. In this case, it's easy to eliminate the solist !

Didier

[John M.]

Thanks. I will check out the web site.

john m

[graeme]

Audition's 'centre channel extractor' is arguably one of the best features of its type - but it's still not perfect (and there's no reason why it should, considering what you are trying to do). One of the nice things about it is that it retains a stereo image for the track that's left - most softwares will end up with a mono back track.

However, Audition is an expensive bit of software (over £300) if all you want to do is make a few backing tracks!

I still say it's better to buy profesionally produced tracks than to fiddle around trying to make your own.

[keithinalps]

I bought one of the first ones it was c**p returned it to nevada who refunded ,could not get a decent sound or remove leadguitar from recordings and half the time it sounded like water dripping in a tunnel

[grip]

Hi All,

There's a good free software for removal of vocals, Audacity, which can be downloaded here:

audacity.sourceforge.net/

There are few tutorials on YouTube this is one of the better ones:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXiKYG3J7M

Kind regards


grip

[graeme]

If anyone wants to try doing this trick, it's possible in virtually any audio editor you might already have. It's simple enough to do.

1. You must start with a stereo recording.

2. Load the recording into your editor.

3. Invert the phase of *one* channel.

3. Add the two channels together.

That's it - job done (maybe).