Isolating drum tracks from recordings

[BoatRich]

Is there a way to do this? I have a bunch of old hardcore records I want to use for drum samples, a USB turntable to get them on my computer, but no clue how to separate out the tracks.

[Decibill]

It's pretty much damn near impossible. The problem with trying to isolating drums from a full mix is that they take up the whole frequency spectrum, high to low. Bass, vocals and guitar can be cut out to varying degree (not completely isolated) with EQ, comp's, expanders and some other processing, but drums, nah.

[weed_killer]

everything Decibill already said, but also remember that hardcore lps were often recorded minimally, leading to a lot of leakage between mics and channels.

[AstralFeedbackM]

Brain works has a solo plug in that lets you solo sides in mono to hear more of the track. It also changeds bandwidth. It's great for taking a track and pulling out the vocals to here. I use it so I can tell what effects are on certain songs with vocals I like. Never tried it on drums but here is the link. Let me know if it worked.

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/plug ... _solo.html
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[BoatRich]

Good to know and thanks for the info guys. I figured it was a bit of a pipe dream. That said, I'll definitely have to look into that solo plug in! It seems really useful

[GardenoftheDead]

If you put the L-R channels out of phase with each other you might be able to isolate the snares and cymbals. Then take a different copy and LPF filter everything above the kick's range.

This is not going to be a perfect solution but it might sound cool?

[BoatRich]

If you put the L-R channels out of phase with each other you might be able to isolate the snares and cymbals. Then take a different copy and LPF filter everything above the kick's range.

This is not going to be a perfect solution but it might sound cool?

That does sound like it could be really interesting. I'll give it a try tonight! Thanks for the idea!

[GardenoftheDead]

If you put the L-R channels out of phase with each other you might be able to isolate the snares and cymbals. Then take a different copy and LPF filter everything above the kick's range.

This is not going to be a perfect solution but it might sound cool?

That does sound like it could be really interesting. I'll give it a try tonight! Thanks for the idea!

Just make sure you bounce down the phased-out version so that you're not canceling out the kick in the second copy.