/muprod/ - Electronic Music Production

Here's my Mediafire, currently uploading various acapellas that I've used in my productions and ones that Ive found. Upload your own, and request here.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/o180z10ia0bvj/Acapellas

I am interested in learning how to get some a capellas.

== tl;dr how do I a capella?

>>15

There are quite a few ways to do this kind of thing, depending on the materials you have available, and your skill level

I like to first look acapellas at

http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/
http://producer-area.pl/

If its not there I'd do it myself

Alot of music has the vocals placed in the centre, and instruments placed around in=t in the stereo field. Because of this, you can use various tools and methods to isolate vocals.

1. Sample Inversion

Simply get a high quality version of both the instrumental of the track you want the acapella from, and the original. Then drop them both into your DAW (cubase, fl, pro tools, audacity, doesnt matter) Invert the waveform of one (usually in the audio settings), and then line them up.
The theory behind it is that since the waveform was inverted, it will negate the other. I.e. The instrumental with negate the instrumental portion of the full track, leaving only the vocals. This method is not perfect, and only works in a few cases, but seriously give it a try. You can even use bits from the original as instrumentals if an Instrumental mix doesnt exist. If a riff is playing on its own, and that very same riff plays under a vocal in a different section, then it is possible to negate it that way.

I'll post other methods later on, gotta write it all out.

>>20
2. Kn0ck0ut

Kn0ck0ut is a vst that basically simulates the sample inversion method, as well as having a mode that isolates the vocal if its panned to the center of the mix. Its got a stack of filters and options to help isolate the vocal.

Basically how it works is you send the instrumental through one channel (left or right) and the original through the other and out pops the vocal (or instrumental, depending on what you want to isolate). Fiddling with the controls, EQs, and gates help control what comes out.

You can also use the centre isolation feature to just cut off the sounds outside the vocal, but I found the other method to work better for me.

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/kn0ck0ut-by-st3pan0va

This shit is free, so download it and give it a go. Creating acapellas takes time and concentration, alot of the time you wont get perfect acapellas. Most of the time you won't. But if it fits in your mix, it doesnt matter too much.

Im no acappella master, so please if others have other methods, please share them. This is just how I learned to do them.

>>20

Thanks a lot.

these methods will surely get me started.

>>25
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>>15
btw

the same anon

I'm into making old school jungle / dnb as a hobby.

A lot of hip hop, breaks, and hardcore artists utilized acapellas from a vinyl collection called. Accapella Anonymous.

I think the torrent is easy to find for this one, but their all in shit tier 192 quality MP3's. But the frequency range is good enough for vocals. Also comes added with free vinyl rumble and other quantization noise.

When you heard some obscure acapella vocal in some rap or hardcore song, it could usually be traced from that specific compilation.

Another good way to get acapellas is by looking for vinyls or vinyl rips with acapellas in the track listing, usually labeled something like "acapella mix."

To find rips of old top charter vinyls, you can go to http://djrichiep.us/. That guy rips some good shit in a good FLAC format and his rips are usually crisp and clean as hell.

>>63
You wouldn't mind giving me some advice on how to achieve the old school sound? And how to program jungle drums. I am also trying to make old school jungle but just can't get the same sound. I am also trying to figure out how to make old-school happy hardcore.

>>290
If youre unsure on where to start with happy hardcore, I'd seriously reccomend getting 2 or 3 reference tracks and just copying the drum loops and styles, this helped me greatly when i dived into other genres, it might be a bit tedious but its worth it

Also, Junglist, if you are reading this and are thinking about giving Jungle/Happy HC advice , please make it a separate thread. Thanks guys

Anyone have any reggae acapellas they'd be willing to upload?

My contribution:
Asher & Daddy Freddy - Brutality
http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/zBJPyYmr/file.html

Spengbond - Ganjaman
http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/29ckC0PX/file.html

unknown singer - Run Run Run
http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/XwyLaFqk/file.html

Soom T & LMK - Critically Boom (my favourite of the bunch)
http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/BWy9ROVE/file.html