Where to get backing or master tracks

[Clark W]

Looking for some place that I can get popular music in individual tracks so I can remove the bass. Anyone know of anything like that out there for popular music?

I'm currently using Moises which will process a song and remove the bass, vocals, or whatever you tell it too, but it's not perfect by any means.

 

[EvilJ]

Try 'Rock Band Stems' on Youtube.

 

[Clark W]

Try 'Rock Band Stems' on Youtube.

Thanks, but not what I'm really looking for.

There are multiple sites for Christian music that I can get an entire song, in individual tracks, play them all at once, or shut off what I want.

Example: shut off the bass track so I can play bass alongside the rest of the tracks. In other words I become the bass track, drum track, guitar track, or whatever track I want to shut off so I can fill in for it.

But so far I haven't been able to find a site like that for rock, blues, grunge, etc...

 

[BC Blackmur]

I use Moises to get the individual tracks. Import them into my DAW. Import the original song, then do a mix down with the song and track, example bass, with the Moises track 180 degrees out of phase. It creates a mix with no bass from the original song rather than trying to use the mix down from Moises without the bass track.
It is a little work but I have found it works quite well even with some of the 70’s songs I am practicing. Then you also have the bass track to listen on solo to hear what the original bass line is.

I had one where the guitar and bass were hard panned left/right, Moises couldn’t do anything with it. So I took out the drums and vocals using the out of phase technique and did a mix down for just the guitar/bass. Hard panned to get the bass only, did the phase inversion again against the original song and voila, no bass in that mix down. Then for kicks, did the same with the guitar to have a mix without it. Turned out pretty good.

 

[Clark W]

I use Moises to get the individual tracks. Import them into my DAW. Import the original song, then do a mix down with the song and track, example bass, with the Moises track 180 degrees out of phase. It creates a mix with no bass from the original song rather than trying to use the mix down from Moises without the bass track.
It is a little work but I have found it works quite well even with some of the 70’s songs I am practicing. Then you also have the bass track to listen on solo to hear what the original bass line is.

I had one where the guitar and bass were hard panned left/right, Moises couldn’t do anything with it. So I took out the drums and vocals using the out of phase technique and did a mix down for just the guitar/bass. Hard panned to get the bass only, did the phase inversion again against the original song and voila, no bass in that mix down. Then for kicks, did the same with the guitar to have a mix without it. Turned out pretty good.

Yeah that's a bit o work for sure.

There's a TBer that I followed on youtube for his playing videos, can't remember his name here on TB, but on youtube... https://youtube.com/@lildrgn?feature=shared

Anyway his covers only have his bass, so on youtube I asked him where he was getting his "bassless" tracks from. Turns out he's getting them from this youtuber with 6.1k of music videos...

https://youtube.com/@bass274?feature=shared

I'll be busy for awhile

 

[pklima]

If this is for practice, why not use Virtual DJ? I think it's still free for non-profit use and has basic stem separation including bass, plus you can slow things down, loop sections, and blend the bass back in if needed.

 

[Clark W]

If this is for practice, why not use Virtual DJ? I think it's still free for non-profit use and has basic stem separation including bass, plus you can slow things down, loop sections, and blend the bass back in if needed.

Never heard of it. Definitely will check it out, thanks.