Extracting Guitar Tones - Labor of boredom

[MKS]

I got bored the other day and started dissecting recordings trying to extract most of the guitar sound only.

Check this out:
http://www.mksstudios.com/guitar_mix.rar 40+MB

Just a few examples. I removed the mono, deleted left track and converted the stereo track to mono. Not perfect but does fairly well at extracting the guitar sound.

 

[kev]

downloading.

 

[trym^^]

good stuff. you da man.

 

[MKS]

good stuf. you da man.

Thanks. I add more this weekend.

 

[trym^^]

great! would you mind explaining your method again, didn't really get it.

 

[cobhc]

didn't work so well for the meshuggah one, but the rest sound good.

 

[xmarcelx]

I wonder that they all have the vocals centered!

I often hear hard panned vocals ... heaven shall burn and misery signals comes in my mind!

this method is old:
btw this also happen sometimes on a walkman if the plug is not connect the right way... my friend called this the "live effect"

 

[MKS]

great! would you mind explaining your method again, didn't really get it.

It's really quite easy. It's based on something I did back in the 80's. Nothing new. You can pull a 1/4 or 1/8 male pin partially out of the input jack and it removes the mono channel. Normally all you hear items that are panned left and right or the stereo FX from the mono tracks.

I used Sound Forge. It has a setting remove mono from a stereo track. I then deleted the left side of the track. This left only 1 side. It gives a better representation of what a single guitar would sound like. Of course, I think all of the examples were either partially or fully quad tracked.

 

[lepersmeesa]

What can I use to extract rar files on macs. I tried doing a search on google but found feck all.

 

[xmarcelx]

I do it this way... simply in audacity (for easy things it's the fastest)
I divide the stereo tracks make them mono and "reverse the phase" on one track et voila!
Everything which is some on both tracks adds now to zero (or in aother words vanish) and it stays just the difference of the left and right track! Simple math! That kills everything which is panned dead center!

What can I use to extract rar files on macs. I tried doing a search on google but found feck all.

unrar?

f.e. http://www.unrarx.com/

 

[moose209]

Normally I have to find the right balance between the two tracks to cancel out what I need, but then again thats on an SSL not "in the box".