holy shit, this is awesome.
it's like hearing multitracks or something.

it's a crap-shoot in terms of what gets isolated,
but sometimes you hit the jackpot.

i did this with title track to "off the wall."
the vocal harmonies on the hook are isolated.
the rhythm guitar part is crazy.

same goes for "working day and night."



either this is isolated, or i am easily amused. lol
but this is cool.

(have no idea what's actually happening to create this effect.
it's more than left/right chanel seperation. some kind of filter? idunno)

one of the posters there knew how to "adjust" the speakers on his computer to "cancel out" the "upfront" tracks and get to the "hidden" tracks (tracks as in: 4 track, 8 track, 16 track tape recordings).

I forgot how he said he did it (I'm sure someone on OKP knows how to do it) but he wrote that the Beatles had all sorts of comments and jokes and stuff "behind" the upfront tracks he "cancelled out" by adjusting his speakers.

This isn't quite the same as listening to isolated tracks from a multitracked recording--there is really no way to do that with present technology unless one possesses the master copy. *EDIT* Just reread your post and you weren't implying that obviously my bad.

The stereo difference technique is interesting though and very simple, you just flip the waveform of one of the two stereo channels. This causes anything mixed mono (identical content in both channels) to cancel out, things slightly isolated to one channel or another to be attenuated, and things hard-panned to remain at their existing volume for the most part. This basically lets you hear the instruments/vocals that were hard panned while removing the common content.

Example with David Bowie "Heroes" (from a youtube uploader who only uploads such recordings btw):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiWoNlMIMs

'preciate that

when u hit that sweet spot of the headphone jack sitting there just right, you'd hear some dope isolated stuff!

i remember listening to Pop Life like that and it totally eliminated the echo that's on the main vocal...ill. u should try it.

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But yes, sometimes with recordings where you know a lot of time went into the mixing, it's fun to do that trick and hear all the little layers of stuff.

I remember some songs on ATLiens in particular becoming like brand new listening experiences.

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"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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ive done that with off the wall. you can hear the bassline and the rhythm guitar being isolated.

signature pose.

Great way to hear below the surface stuff.

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