DIY Stems, isolating parts of songs without the stems?

Does anyone have tips to isolating stuff without having the stems?

Like EQ and other things to isolate things out of songs?

Like riff station you can kind of go left and right with the audio to try isolate stuff but then when muting it out the audio quality goes bad.

What stuff do you guys use?

Any time you use EQ to try isolating things it'll affect the other instruments because there's always some overlap in overtones. That's why trying to use a noise reduction or vocal isolation plug-in makes everything else sound worse.

If you can get the full track and a track that is missing one part (like a track without vocals or without guitar, etc.), you can try using phase cancellation. Line the tracks up as close to perfectly as you can, invert the phase on one, and combine them. That should isolate whatever was missing from the second track (the vocals or guitar etc.).

MashTactic is a great VST plugin for isolating based on frequency and stereo field position. I have used it many times in the past to extract some very decent stems from songs.

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Originally Posted by multiman

MashTactic is a great VST plugin for isolating based on frequency and stereo field position. I have used it many times in the past to extract some very decent stems from songs.

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Will look into it, thanks :)

Here is a good example of what I've done using only MashTactic and some minor editing: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...ood-DIY-Stems)

This one's even better: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...565#post190565

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Originally Posted by multiman

Here is a good example of what I've done using only MashTactic and some minor editing: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...ood-DIY-Stems)

This one's even better: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...565#post190565

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Which i'm guessing you used it on because it's midnight?

That one was really great, i hope you get around to doing a full band custom of that one day :D

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Originally Posted by multiman

Here is a good example of what I've done using only MashTactic and some minor editing: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...ood-DIY-Stems)

This one's even better: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...565#post190565

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Also how would i install it on reaper?

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Originally Posted by multiman

Here is a good example of what I've done using only MashTactic and some minor editing: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...ood-DIY-Stems)

This one's even better: http://literecords.com/showthread.ph...565#post190565

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Tested it, and i did what i did with riff station on a song and it sounded less bad then riff station when putting it at the place where the guitar is in the audio

Now i just need to find the full version so i can use it for my project

kn0ck0ut vst .. and phase cancellation