Hey everyone,
Some of my friends and I are doing a video for school and we all were really hoping to use a certain song, but we wanted the instrumental version of it. Unfortunately, we could only find the normal version of the song. If anyone of you would be able to rip the voices out of the track and leave the instruments only, we would be forever in your debt! If you want to take a crack at it, here is the download link.

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Thank you in advance,
TheDude2008

Well, technically speaking, the day that someone can rip out the voices perfectly and leave only the instrumentals behind will likely be the same day that someone finds a way to extract only the eggs out of a cake that's already been baked. Until then, you could try using the karaoke effect/tool on your music. The audio-editing program Audacity has one of these built in, but I'm sure there's a lot of stand-alone programs that'll do this as well. Some songs are formatted just right so that all the singing is located in the center of the audio--and the karaoke effect removes this center channel. It will not work good if there is a chorus or whatever in the outer edges of the left and/or right channels. It also won't work well if the voices are echo-y.

I'm just sayin'....I did see one guy on here who said he could do something like this, but he only said he could look into it after I said something that apparently offended him, and he was no longer willing to help me out.

Thanks for the quick reply. I know in the TV Soundtrack forum, people are able to rip voices out of segments in TV shows, leaving just the soundtrack (such as what Thalin did with 24). So, I guess it's a bit different with actual songs? Thanks for the suggestions, though. I'll be sure to try them out.

It's not different. There are always "echoes" of the voices and fx behind. No one, no matter how good, can completely remove these sounds if they are mixed in together. Some on here can come very close, but that's it.