Best way to "karaoke" my own tracks?

[Rick Cornish]

Never thought I'd need to do this. Long story short....

I'd like to take my guitar parts off a few of my tracks so I can perform with them live. I lost the original DP4/5/6 files ( ), so I only have the stereo masters to work with. (Lead guitar was recorded in stereo, just to make things a bit more challenging.)

I have Waves Center, which I tried quickly and it removed 85% of the guitar, but not enough for me to replace it live....unless I was going to play exactly what I played on the track.

Anyone have a suggestion as to how I might eliminate (as mush as possible) my (lead) guitar from these tracks?

Thanks in advance.

[David Polich]

IMO you are not going to have much luck, if any, "removing" your guitar parts from the stereo track.
Waves Center is not going to do it, that's for sure.

The only solution I can think of is Melodyne...process the stereo tracks thorugh Melodyne, then locate which "blobs" are guitar notes, and remove them. That would take ages but it's possible to do.

Melodyne here:
http://www.celemony.com

[Shooshie]

Waves "Center" may do a better job than nothing. I'd give it a try if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Otherwise, you may EQ out the fundamental range, plus the range up to the first couple harmonics of your solo tracks. You may end up with bass and drums, in which case it isn't that big a deal to replace the chords/rhythm. To me, that would be easier than trying to surgically remove the guitar with Melodyne.

In fact, I think I'd just start from scratch —or from the above mentioned bass/drums — and do a music-minus-one track for each of them. Use what you can, re-do what gets deleted.

Shooshie

[Rick Cornish]

Thanks, gents. Appreciate the suggestions as I wanted to beside I wasn't missing anything "magic" that might do the trick.

Will be recreating the tracks.....or re-framing the gig as solo jazz guitar.