how do people isolate specific audio tracks from a file without access to the master tapes? Such as when someone makes an isolated vocal or bass track of a song or when someone makes a mashup of instruments from one song with the vocals from another.

Question

Such as when people make “isolated bass/vocal,” tracks of popular songs or make a meme mashup of one song with he vocal line of another over it?

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Answer 1

There are multitrack projects of a lot of songs, some available to the general public if you know where to look for them, and some only accesible to people in the recording industry with *contacts*. If you have one of those projects, you can just mute the track you don’t want (vocals to karaoke, or some instrument if you want to make a cover, etc)