At 01:58 09/03/2006, Maarten wrote:

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Howdid B&J managed to get the sample off the song? I mean, ifyou listen closely, there's no way one could remove the sample withoutthe surrounding music. Or do you just filter it out? How does it work? Maarten

I don't know the song(s) in question... No if it's a clean studio acapella then it's either a) official or b) a mate worked in the studio and stole it (apart from one case below) - although I'm wary that anyone would do that since studios are so anal about stuff like that I guess, and it's the usual industry standard excuse to cover up that cos... ...record companies fund white labels and often release the acapellas on promos; or send the parts to be remixed. Usually tho there is severe contractual obligations not to release the parts; if there is a leak they know where to look first anyway. It's night on impossible to create a totally clean pseudo-pella unless you have the exactly the same instrumental as the original - Jesus Jones weren't stupid to release an instrumental on one of those promos were they? Then you just do a channel extraction - digitally remove the intrumental from the acapella but it has to be exactly the same - just the vocal channel muted - usually instrumentals are mixed differently to prevent this. Remember IANARBIKAFTD (I am not a remixer but I know a few that do...) :-D I've done acapella extractions tho, with varying suck-cess. P.S RMStringer - tried to reply but comcast blocked me. Weird. Tim