Backing tracks

High praise! Was there specific software you've tried before? I myself was quite impressed with RipX & the amount of tweaking it allows (well, the demo's I've seen online, havent tried it myself yet). I could not find many videos showing recent Demucs, but the one I did find was indeed pretty good.
Then you should use RipX. Usually instruments, and guitar especially cross over into other frequency ranges of vocals and/or other instruments. I am not trying to say this is the only solution. I am working with demucs and so far I have gotten good results. Sometimes I get some bleed but it is so low I can deal with it. I am glad the tech and algorithms are there now, where they were not 10-20 years ago.

Demucs is just a command line tool developed at Facebook from an algorithm, not an end user product where you click a button and get your result.
 
I am not trying to say this is the only solution. I am working with demucs and so far I have gotten good results. Sometimes I get some bleed but it is so low I can deal with it.

Demucs is just a command line tool developed at Facebook from an algorithm, not an end user product where you click a button and get your result.
Cool, and thanks! I'll give both a go; not worried about the command line. It's great there are so many options, and I agree everyone should pick what works best (or: well) for them.
 
I would test LaLaL.ai - after trying different Gilmour grabs from YT - program is a sketchy to me - for instance you block out the guitar and you can still hear blurbs of it which would drive me crazy and quality is less on more intricate songs - oh well
 
I make my own backing tracks. If it's a cover song, I grab the midi from Ultimate Guitar and run it through EZDrummer and Logic Pro. Then I record guitars and bass. It's actually a fun process for me as it's good practice for when I compose my own music.
 
I make my own backing tracks. If it's a cover song, I grab the midi from Ultimate Guitar and run it through EZDrummer and Logic Pro. Then I record guitars and bass. It's actually a fun process for me as it's good practice for when I compose my own music.
That looks like guitarbackingtracks.com material they had before they were bought by ultimate guitar and then was taken down
 
For those of you who are more familiar with Moises, I'm having trouble removing the guitars without removing the keyboard tracks. It appears that all guitars and keys are perceived to be on one single "track" in Moise's analysis... Granted, I only tested two classic rock songs, so it's a very small sample size, but am I missing something? The concept is uber cool and it seems to do a really good job to isolate out the vocals and drums, so it's a bit unexpected that it doesn't distinguish guitars from keyboards.

Any tips or ideas?
I’m experimenting with moises and for stripping a guitar and keyboard part I first used the 4 track vocals-drums-bass-other. IF you subscribed, download tracks to computer….then I took the “other” track(guitar and piano) into the 5 track version with guitar and it did get the guitar “okay”…great for practicing.

This application is hit and miss though! I wish they had instrumental only options targetting instrument types to focus the stem work…
 
I worked on another 20 tunes experimenting with moises…I’m pretty skeptical about these types of apps but depending on the song it is really, really good. Separating jazz drum tracks and a little touch up in Logic and dam! :)
 
Actually, in most cases, I start by searching the web and YouTube for a backing track that some good Samaritan has already done. Sometimes these tracks exist, sometimes they don't.

I also use Lalai to separate the guitars from the original track. Sometimes the guitarless track provided is very good - sometime, not so good. In cases where its not so good, I'll load up the original track in Reaper an drop in the guitars only in another track. Then, on the guitars only, I'll reverse the phase of that track and that will significantly lower the volume of the guitars on the original track when played back. The reversed phase on the guitars only cancels out the guitars on the original track - or really lowers the volume quite a bit.

Check out my channel for an idea of the results. I've found that doing these videos is quite a lot of fun and I have learned quite a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3DS3R_jyzKmo3bud_FnCow
 
https://www.fosshub.com/Demucs-GUI.html
Messing around and I still haven't encountered a track that doesn't separate. There are some techniques you can apply in Audacity that I think would work especially well with a stem track with bleed over. Will report here. I also have the command line version and Anaconda for python installed so I can get into the settings and get jiggy with it if I have to. Just good clean separation in my experience so far.
 
https://www.fosshub.com/Demucs-GUI.html
Messing around and I still haven't encountered a track that doesn't separate. There are some techniques you can apply in Audacity that I think would work especially well with a stem track with bleed over. Will report here. I also have the command line version and Anaconda for python installed so I can get into the settings and get jiggy with it if I have to. Just good clean separation in my experience so far.
UVR5 is much better GUI variant and has Demucs 3 with several models including top 4 stem model separator mdx-extra/extra_q, but you have in mind that there is no model that can separate guitar from guitar (clean or dirty), or piano/organ/synth with similiar to mdx model results (if you know of some method, let me know, thanks). These are the links to download (if you wish) or get acquainted with UVR5 GUI specifics. Glad to help.
Link 1: https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui
Link 2 Download latest v.5.4.0:
https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/releases/tag/v5.4.0
 
UVR5 is much better GUI variant and has Demucs 3 with several models including top 4 stem model separator mdx-extra/extra_q, but you have in mind that there is no model that can separate guitar from guitar (clean or dirty), or piano/organ/synth with similiar to mdx model results (if you know of some method, let me know, thanks). These are the links to download (if you wish) or get acquainted with UVR5 GUI specifics. Glad to help.
Link 1: https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui
Link 2 Download latest v.5.4.0:
https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/releases/tag/v5.4.0
Ok, on the separation I see what you are talking about then. I don't expect it to produce source track granularity... pulling out the guitars and/or the keys is good enough for me. Thanks for the links to UVR, I'll check it out.
 
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