Vocal/Instrument removal software

[bkbass2000]

I'm looking for some help with a project. I lost my dad last year. He wrote and recorded a song for my mom back in the 80's that I recently found on cassette. As a Mother's Day gift I'd like to do some work to the track in my DAW. Unfortunately I think he recorded it with one cheap mic and there is a lot more acoustic guitar than vocal. I read a little about separation/isolation software but I'm wondering:

1.) if anyone has experience with it?
2.) is there any chance of separating(somewhat) parts on a stereo or mono track of such low quality?
3.) I don't really want to purchase any software but I'd be willing to pay someone who has it to give it a shot with an mp3. Does anyone know of a studio or person that might be willing to give it a try?

If I can get the parts onto two separate tracks, I can bring up the vocal and I think it'd be cool to add a acoustic guitar track to make it sound more rich and full. Plus I'd get another chance to play along with my dad

Thanks for any help

 

[silky smoove]

Izotope RX is the ideal tool for this. It’s expensive but highly effective. If you don’t want to purchase the software feel free to shoot me a PM and I’d be happy to help you out.

 

[organworthyplayer337]

^^^ Smoove is correct, that is a great software and would probably have the best shot at separating the guitar from the vocals.

There is another app called Moises that does something similar and I think it's free for the first 5 songs.

When it comes to separating the stems of an mp3, there is some frequency loss to be expected because it's dealing with an entire file, rather than individual parts.

I have the full version of Moises (can do longer songs, preserve a little more quality) and can try it out for you if you want. But I think Smoove's program is the way to go

Best of luck!

 

[Frank Tuesday]

Spleeter is an open source option. I have iZotope RX, so I've never tried it, but it might be worth looking into.

GitHub - deezer/spleeter: Deezer source separation library including pretrained models.

 

[DirkP]

I'm very sceptical about software that kind of promises to turn a whole mix into separate tracks again. But in your case: you could even use eq-presets from Logic to kind of enhance the vocals. It is not an absolut requierement to separate it into different tracks. What I would do in a Daw is: doubling the track - this is not the same than having a solo vocal and a solo guitar track - and then focusing on the guitar on track 1 and the vocals on track 2.
Like on track two: filtering out all the frequencies that are not relevant for the vocals. I would turn track 1 into a stereo track using tools that share the frequencies on the two sides of the stereo spectrum, while keeping the vocal track strongly mono.

 

[silky smoove]

I'm very sceptical about software that kind of promises to turn a whole mix into separate tracks again.

Izotope RX has this ability among many others. It’s not perfect. None of them are. That said, it’s incredible.

 

[mellowinman]

Vocal Remover | Isolate Voice & Instrumental Online | LALAL.AI

It's not at all expensive, and has met my needs, for the most part.