Audacity Music Engineering Week

This week the students will be working on creating a MASH UP from a series of Music Choices.  They will be able to use any of the clips saved into the K-Drive, Robinson Productions, MASH UP Folder.

The students must use at least 3 of the selections from the folder and create a unique song with it. They may bring samples of music from home and remove the lyrics from it.  They will then insert these lyrics over the music they have created! They will need the following tutorials to successfully complete this Challenge!

Making MASH UPS Part 1




Making MASHUPS part 2



How to remove Vocals



 How to engineer a Song







Another Vocal Isolation Tutorial





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Manual Instructions for Vocal Isolation from Audacity Help Desk..

Using Audacity for vocal isolation

An Audacity user (Marco Diego) posted this technique on the Audacity Forum for using Audacity to attempt to isolate vocals; it will not work successfully in all cases.

It is sometimes possible to isolate vocals by using Audacity's Noise Reduction to capture the noise profile of a song that has had vocals removed, then run Noise Reduction with that profile on the original mix before vocals were removed.

1. Make a copy of your original stereo track
   1. Select the whole track (click in empty space in its Track Control Panel for example where it says "Hz")
   2. Copy the track with Edit > Copy
   3. Create a new stereo track with Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track
   4. Use Edit > Paste to make a copy of the original track in the new stereo track
2. Select the whole of the copied track (click in empty space in its Track Control Panel)
3. Remove the vocals in the copy by using Effect > Vocal Remover (for center-panned vocals)...
4. On a copy of the track remove the vocals as in Case 1 above using Audacity's Vocal Remover
5. The copied track should remain selected, so use Effect > Noise Reduction... and click on the Get Noise Profile button
6. Now select the original track (click in the space its Track Control Panel)
7. Use Effect > Noise Reduction... and click on the OK button
8. Delete the copied track (click in the [X] at the top left of its Track Control Panel)

The following may let you remove drums which are not centered but keep the vocals:

• Use the steps above to create a track with vocal isolation.
• Then import the original song into Audacity again and try this Nyquist plug-in elliptice.ny to move the bass frequencies to center.
• Then remove the drums from the center by inversion.
• Finally mix the vocals back in.

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The students will be graded as follows for this project.


Music Engineering of at least 3 clips ....................................................... 8 points

Audio Clip of Choosing with Lyrics Removed ....................................... 8 points

Professional Quality of Final Product ..................................................... 4 points

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Total Points Possible                                                                               20 points