clean lyrics?

i have a problem , i need to make some mixes for an FM radio station , but 99 percent of my musc library is dirty music , so i need a way to clean the dirty lyrics out of my songs . any one have any good ways of doign this ?

lol first off , im a dj , i dont buy music , people send me music , im in record pools , record laels send me music . But alot of the time i get it with out any clean version .

that aside , there must be a way to cover up lyrics , im sure someone has doen this before

First off, welcome to MC JC, I kinda have to say, it falls under the lipstick on a pig theory. I mean the DJ world for whatever you want to paint it lends itself to this kind of problem. I took a look at your myspace site, and hip hop, and that sort of venue leans toward sex drugs and ganster mentaility. I do not point this out to be offensive, or demeaning at all, but with dozens of links to sites with scantly clad women, drug and thug themes, even if that is meant to make a counter point, it still links you to that thought process. The rap, hip hop world is one strongly attached to bad language, drug culture, crime, dirty sexual content, viewing women as nothing but carnal objects, and offensive behavior. If you roll in the mud you will get dirty. Maybe if this offends your sensitivity now, it is time to make a CLEAN break from it and change the birds you flock with. Taking the dirty words out of a song with a dirty intent, does not really clean it up, most folks remember that word anyway. Ever seen a movie cleaned up for TV, and still you remember that removed word. Just saying, no what i mean Vern?!?!

There is a method for removing vocals almost completely from a track that involves inverting the phase of one of the stereo tracks and then recombining it with the other channel.

This can definitely be accomplished in Audacity - I assume that with a bit of selective editing you could successfully remove the offending vocals. It's time consuming for sure and by no means perfect - I think the bleep method might be more practical.

There are two main drawbacks apart from the time it takes - you end up with a mono file, this might not be too much of a problem for live DJ work though.

Secondly, the process seems to remove everything from the centre of the stereo image to a greater or lesser extent - this means bass and kick drum as well as vocals, although they don't seem to be quite so sensitive to removal as do the vox.

There's a pretty nifty video on how to do it on YouTube - I did a quick experiment and it does work for wave files as well as mp3s.

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXiKYG3J7M

Hope that ******* helps (see, it works )

Steve



Edit - typo

I guessed so!

Plus you'll need to maintain stereo for those purposes.

lol , i do have the benefit of having the slip n slide name behind me , so more people lsiten to my stuf