How-to guide
How to remove vocals from a vinyl rip
Producers and beat-makers rip vinyl all the time to pull drum breaks, bass lines and vocal hooks from records that never made it to streaming. VocalSplit turns those noisy rips into usable stems for sampling and remixing.
Vinyl rips carry pop, hiss and surface noise that will end up in the instrumental stem alongside the music. That is often fine — sometimes even desirable for lo-fi production — but do not expect a squeaky-clean result like you get from a CD rip.
Step-by-step
- Rip the record to WAV or FLAC. Use your preamp, audio interface and a DAW like Audacity or Reaper. Record at 24-bit/96 kHz if you can.
- Clean up obvious pops and clicks first. Optional, but iZotope RX or Audacity's click removal before separation gives better stem quality.
- Open VocalSplit.io and upload. Any modern browser. Drop the WAV or FLAC in.
- Pay and process. $0.99 per split. Files up to 100 MB — enough for most 7-inch singles or individual LP tracks.
- Download and sample. Vocals and instrumental come back as 24-bit WAV, ready to chop in your MPC or DAW.
Tips for better results
- Mono records (anything before about 1968) work fine — do not sum to mono before uploading.
- The vocal stem on old records often captures the original take including any studio leakage.
- For sample-pack creation, run a batch of rips through VocalSplit and keep only the vocal stems.
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Upload a song and get clean vocals and instrumental stems in under 15 seconds. First split is $0.99.
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