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Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:39 am
by 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.

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:46 am
by 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.

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:18 pm
by 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.

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:21 pm
by 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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Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:44 pm
by 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

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:50 pm
by 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?

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:55 am
by BoatRich
GardenoftheDead wrote: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!

Re: Isolating drum tracks from recordings

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:23 pm
by GardenoftheDead
BoatRich wrote:
GardenoftheDead wrote: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.