

How to use EQ EightĮQ Eight has 8 filters which you can turn on & off by pressing the squares by their numbers. It allows you to filter the sound just like you filter photos before putting them up on Instagram. EQ Eight allows you to cut (or boost) areas of the frequency spectrum. All frequencies together are called the spectrum. Now you know what high & low frequencies sound like. Now it’s the opposite - only the hihats, snare and whistle are audible. The high (bright) frequencies are cut out. Notice that you can now hear only the kick, bass, much less of the snare and almost no hihats. Now listen to the same clip without high frequencies.

Here’s what this situation looks like on the EQ8 display: Here is a fragment of a track of mine with no EQ applied. Make sure to wear headphones or listen on good speakers with a lot of low frequencies. To understand what EQ does you need to get a sense of what the frequency spectrum is. Today I’m going to show you when and how to use it. Go as deep as you want, but remember - have fun while you’re learning and practicing.Īnyway, enough talking, let’s get into it! 1.EQ Eight is one of the most important production tools in Ableton Live. From there, you could continue to learn more techniques if you want to, in order to get a more polished isolation or removal. TRAX gives you a pretty solid automated extraction.

If any of this sounds a bit daunting - don’t worry! You can get started extracting vocals from a song after learning only the most basic concepts.

In this video tutorial series, we’ll be breaking down how to separate vocals from the backing instruments, using such techniques as: Whether you’re looking to get the isolated vocals for a track you want to remix, or to remove vocals to create an instrumental version of a song, this is the only piece of software that you’ll need. It is very powerful, specifically built for the purpose of vocal extraction. We’ll be using vocal remover software from Audionamix, called ADX TRAX Pro 3 SP. One you end up with a solo vocal track, the other with a clean instrumental track. We’ll be covering both how to extract vocals and how to remove vocals from a song - they’re really two sides of the same coin. Welcome to this tutorial series on how to isolate vocals.
