"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Doki wrote:
Take something like that Sugababes song that sampled Gary Numan
(electric sheep IIRC), where they get the synthy backing track and take
the vocals off it - do they get the masters and get the backing track
that way or is there a way to get the vocals off the mixed single
(photoshop for sound ?). Or even earlier, something like Rappers
Delight, where there wasn't computer jiggery pokery and they apparently
didn't have permission to use the sample (maybe just loop a bit without
vocals?).

If a stereo recording, phase reversing one channel at filtered frequencies
might remove most of the vocal - or someone may have made a prog to do
this digitally - but it's unlikely to leave the backing totally untouched.

Right. Next I'll be asking why the vocals get louder when you make stereo
mono (it must be true, I heard it on Radio 2 the other day when someone was
talking about Dock of the Bay).