Extracting vocals

I’m trying to remix an old track, and while there is an instrumental version available, the arrangement is different, which means i cant isolate the vocal using phase inversion, is there another way to get a reasonably clean vocal from a track? br
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I’ve tried precision EQing but there’s just too much percussion for this.

Try to find accoustic versions on youtube that hold far less instruments.br
Or let someone sing the parts if you really want them that bad.

There’s nothing like that on Youtube unfortunately and the problem with getting somebody to sing it, is it’s a new order track, so it’s quite a distinctive voice. br
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i’ve duplicated it, then pushed the EQ range of the vocal on one copy, then used phase cancellation, which has worked better than just EQing, still not great though. Oh well, will keep plugging away at itbr

you try chopping the instrumental up and copying the arrangement from the vocal version?br

Yeah Chris, the ‘instrumental’ is actually quite different. If you listen to the main version from about 1:30 when the vocal comes in, there’s a big chord stab every couple of bars that doesn’t exist anywhere in the instrumental and it’s right in the vocal frequency range.br
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[url]New Order - Vanishing Point (Instrumental) - (Technique [Collector's Edition] - Disc 2) - YouTube