Sony Acid - Optimal Rendering Volume

From the last couple years of using Sony Acid, I found that there is such a thing as the best setting of the volume. If you render the song with too low of a volume setting than you will have a hard time turning up the volume when playing it. If its too loud, it gets distorted when you play it later on. I, personally, think that the best volume is:

Track Volume setting: -7.0
Master Volume Setting: +17.0

Try that, perfect sound quality and volume setting!

Sony Acid - Isolating Vocals from comlete music tracks

This is very very difficult to do. There are only a couple of ways I know how to obtain the vocals from any track. The easiest is to see if you can download the acapella version of the song from the web and I can tell where to look if you're interested. If you got to this page from my main page, it should've instructed you on how to download what you need. The other option that I know of is to use Software with vocal isolation algorithms and one that I've used before is quite a popular one, Sony Sound Forge. I don't use it much, only because it is a very complicated an technical program to use. It is used for mainly for sound editing, so if you're an audio engineer, you're probably fly at it. Even though you manage to isolate most of the vocals with it, you will not be able to eliminate all the music from the background. They are just not as noticeabe but low enough to be drowned out by your new Music Overlay. An easy way to mix vocals from a track with beats from another one is to simply Enable the mid and low frequency filters to reduce the mid and low sounds. Now you mainly have vocals and whatever is left - usually but not always.

Sony Acid - Coyping beats from songs

Its a very simple thing, to copy the beats from most your favorite songs. This is how you do it. You move your audio file from your file management window onto your ACID workspace and the software will render it's Graphical depiction of the song. All you need to do then is to find a short segment of the track where it lacks vocals, but you need atleast 1 full Measure or one complete loop of the background music. As you all may know, most background beats are just 8 or 16 beats relooped over and over again with some variations to form a track's background beats. Once you've found the segment, copy it and create a new line of audio file on the workspace just by right clicking and inserting a new audio file then paste it onto the new track. Copy it and repaste over and over for the desired duration. Listen to it and make sure that your relooping of the segment is one continious flow without any noticeable interruption. Once you've got that perfected, delete the original track from the workspace you copied the loop from leaving just your newly formed non vocal background music track. Render it as an mp3 file and there you go. you can now go and use it for whatever mixing you choose to.

Nomadic - 2 cents

There’s a crap load of music out there and over half of them are not worth the time and definitely not worth the money. I have spent enough of my time at the clubs to know which beats will get them wall flowers dancing. I’ve also spent a good deal of my personal time mixing beats on digital mixers and multi-layering softwares, making 30 minute strings and even complete cds by sampling from multiple tracks. Believe me, my beats will make you want to get your groove on. There are lots of artist out there making cds that have 1 good track and 13 or so filler tracks…..Boooo. Lots of those artist are obviously ones that are more concerned with $$$ than their genuine love for the art. As far as club beats goes, I personally think that there are 2 totally different types. Let me break it down for ya. The 1^st kind I call the “sol club track” that consists of songs that you wouldn’t want to hear anywhere else but in the club, why? Because the tracks have a beat you can dance to but the tracks itself has nothing else to offer ya outside the club. An example of that would be tracks like: Sean Paul – We be burning. The other kind are tracks that are dope as hell and have a sick beat you’d want to bump in your car, at home and definitely would make you want to get your groove on. Those are the tracks that get the wall flowers ass gyrating and head bobbing with the beats. An example would be like: Neyo – Sexy love.

I hope we can get some dialogue going and exchange ideas and even some knowledge about music.

I’ve got lost to say and I look forward to your voices and opinions on anything you got to say about music.