- Mike Pyne, LRAM, ARCM, LGSM, LTCL, A.Mus.A, Dir. of Music, Australia
- Using Vogone 3.200, I just tried a Roy Orbison .mp3 (Workin for the Man) and a Sinatra (They Can't Take That Away From Me). The vocal removal is extraordinarily good! The minimal amount of lead vocal remaining would never be heard when replaced by a performer. What is also quite remarkable is just how good the remaining instrumental backing is compared to the original!! When I switch between the original track and the Vogone processed track, the Vogoned track has SO MUCH MORE LIFE & PRESENCE than the very flat sounding original!! This is a really excellent product - not much short of MAGIC!! Congratulations on a great and quite significant upgrade.
- Garry Leslie, UK, MTU.Community Forum
- I decided to upgrade to Vogone 3.004. Well I had my socks blown off! I re-did a lot of stuff where I had the vocal almost gone, most are now gone completely, and have done some new stuff, which had been a failure in the past. We all know that there are tunes impossible to delete, but if anybody has a product that is better than Vogone, they haven't put it on the market. I do a lot of obscure stuff which has never been available on karaoke discs, well it is now. Keep up the good work!
- Orzelw, MTU.Community Forum
- I got my Vogone 3.004 free upgrade last night and went to work on a few "mic drown-out" tracks created using the previous version. I had good success at reducing the vocals even further on several. On my "Best of Gerry and the Pacemakers" CD, a collection from various albums, the mixes are... well, mixed. On two of the tracks I had the balance adjustment halfway across the scale from center pan, and the vocals were totally eliminated! I have my work cut out for me now, going back on the troublesome tracks and running them through this new version. The new off-center panning adjustment will save me hours in the future, not having to try hit-and-miss rebalancing in a third-party audio wave editor. I still got improved vocal removal with Vogone 3.004 over the results from my rebalanced wave files.
- Lynda Vanett, email received at MTU
- I just upgraded from Vogone 2.210 to 3.004. Having previously used this program, I knew it was already the best out there. On some songs which were previously "Vogoned" with 2.210, I was very pleased to discover that 3.004 actually removed more vocal in spots AND retained some instruments which were previously lost! Vogone is still a far better product than its competition. Do not be fooled by web sites, cheap software, or costly equipment claiming to be "better". Get Vogone and you'll be glad you did!
- Songbird, MTU.Community Forums Post
- I have been using Vogone to make some of my own karaoke songs for [a School] show and it is working GREAT! I AM SO THRILLED WITH IT! I've been a professional singer for 30 years and have been wishing for something like this forever!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again to everyone. This [MTU.Community] is the BEST help site for people like me who are fumbling around not knowing half of what we should!!!!
- Doug D., United Kingdom, Professional Singer
- I THOUGHT I WOULD SEND YOU THIS E-MAIL, PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPITALS, AS I'M A SINGER NOT A TYPIST. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE VOGONE 1 AND 2, AND USE THEM ALL THE TIME MORE OR LESS DAILY. I ALSO HAVE AND USE ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS, KARAOKE PRO, AND MICROSTUDIO. I NOW WONDER HOW I EVER MANAGED BEFORE! I HAVE SEVERAL OTHER PROGRAMMES FROM OTHER SOURCES IN THE USA, BUT NONE WORK A WELL AS YOURS, SURE THERE ARE SMALL BUGS, BUT NOTHING TO EVEN THINK ABOUT, SO PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CLIENTS AND OTHERS KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL TESTIMONIAL AS I NEVER WRITE LETTERS, IF I CAN HELP IT, BUT YOUR PROGRAMMES ARE REALLY WORTH IT.
- Lynda Vanett, From MTU Community Forums
- I recently purchased Vogone and it is truly the best out there... and a lot easier on the wallet! I work with vocal reduction/elimination programs a lot for private purposes and am always looking for ways to create the best possible trax. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON OTHER VOCAL REMOVAL PRODUCTS. Vogone is so good I've remade karaoke trax to some songs I'd previously created using other programs. Vogone is the best, and is the best deal for the money. Why pay over $1500 for a large piece of hardware, when for A LOT less, you can create karaoke files quickly and efficiently! If you're serious about karaoke then GET THIS PROGRAM! You will not regret it. My sincere thanks to the folks at MTU for creating a terrific, easy to use program. You've put the fun back in making my own karaoke tracks and saved me a lot of money!
- Mike Pyne, LRAM, ARCM, LGSM, LTCL, A.Mus.A, Dir. of Music, Australia
- I have compared the results I was able to achieve with the Thompson VE-3 (hardware unit), the "live" vocal elimination function on my Sony DVD player and my JVC Karaoke machine, three other software programs and both Vogone 1.0 and 2.007. It is probably fair to say that none of them will totally eliminate a centre-panned lead vocal without severely affecting the overall sound. However, I can produce a result that is quite acceptable for home use.
- To elaborate on the results of all my comparisons would be too long. Suffice to say that Vogone 2.007 is very user-friendly compared with some of the methods and programs I tested. Vogone 2 can produce very good results very quickly on centre panned stereo tracks which have originally been recorded in a studio. When one considers all the facts, including how much it would cost to produce a "band track" in a recording studio with the original artists exact arrangement/accompaniment, the results with Vogone are truly quite amazing. The most difficult thing to retain is the bass and drums because they are often panned to the centre the same as the lead vocal. Vogone 2 manages to do this as well as anything else - perhaps better.
- Note: Mike was using Vogone 2.007 Beta Test version, not the final polished Vogone 2.014 release, or our latest 3.200 release (see his new testimonial above).
- mojorising92, Vogone Open Forum post
- I was a Dart and Cooledit Pro 2 fan to remove vocals from Wav files. I bought Vogone 2.104 at midnight and was surprised I was able to get it in minutes. I started to work on some 60's music and Light My Fire. I had the best sound possible for Karaoke. The sound is clearer with very little distortion at all. So far Vogone 2.104 is the best vocal reducer that I ever work with it. If you looking for a program that has instrument on the same track of the vocals I was surprise I can get some of the instrument sound back without a echo effect. Clearly this is the program to get.
- Jeff Wear, Coyote Joe's Karaoke, Nashville, Tennessee
- Using Vogone 2.104, I've tested 23 songs with varying levels of vocal saturation and found mixed results. The vast majority is very positive reducing vocals by approximately 80% or better in some cases. Only 3 showed poor reduction of 30%, or so. The overall disappointing note is the reverb that remains in all converted tracks, and the loss of low frequency. Perhaps I'm not properly adjusting the low/high levels to properly tweak to track.
- In reference to a comment made by Admin in the Forums, I'm curious if anyone who has applied VoGone to 50 songs with no affect is in fact trying to use a downloaded .mp3 converted to .wav as the source? This would obviously be a problem, and I see little other reason as to how that many tracks could show such little progress.
- Scaling 1-10, based on the dream of perfect backgrounds, and zero lead vocal levels, and some harmony vocals (unrealistic I know) we'd give this version a 7.8. This is not comparing it to other products on the market, but rating it all by itself against the goal of perfection, so we are very happy with what has been accomplished. Comparing to others the score would be considerably higher.
- Lauraine G., Vogone 2.104 Beta Tester, UK
- I cannot speak for the others, but when I say, for instance, 70% removal I mean that 70% of the vocal sound including reverb/echoes/whatever is gone, and that only 30% of the total lead vocal sound remains. Please Note: I am using songs from my "Difficult Folder"!
- 95% reduction - The First To Know (Dinah Washington)
- 90% reduction - Quando Quando Quando (Englebert Humperdinck) New, thumping, driving version
- 85% reduction - Straight Tequila (Trini Triggs)
- 80% reduction - I´m Gonna Knock On Your Door (Nashville Allstars)
- 70% reduction - Answer Me (Barbara Dickson) This is from a live recording so I may never get acceptable results. Having said that I am getting about 70% removal, which is OK for rehearsal purposes.
- 70% reduction - Winner (Jane McDonald)
- 70% reduction - You Don´t Know Me (Jane McDonald)
- 70% reduction - I Believe In You (Barbara Dickson)
- 70% reduction - The Race Is On (George Jones)
- 70% reduction - Rockin´ Pneumonia (Nashville Allstars)
- 70%/50% reduction - Cattle Call (LeAnn Rimes & Eddy Arnold) - 70% of Mr Arnold´s removed, 50% of Miss Rimes´
- 60% reduction - Fool Number One (the Mavericks)
- 60% reduction - Missing You (Chris deBurgh) This is the slow, dreamy version, not the brighter tempo hit version
- 50% reduction - I Need Your Love So Bad (Fleetwood Mac)
- 40% reduction - Stranger on the Shore (Acker Bilk)
- George Luther, Arizona
- Karaoke enthusiasts can expand their horizons by using Vogone to remove lead instruments from instrumentals. Why restrict yourself to vocal removal when there's a wealth of instrumentals out there that can be used for Karaoke? Who wants to compete with the alto sax? Not a problem... just run it through Vogone the same as you would a vocal. Most recording studios treat the lead instrument the same as the lead singer and record on a separate track, but seldom use reverb or echo. In most instances the lead instrument will be completely gone after processing with Vogone. If there is anything remaining, such as the echo we are used to with vocals, it will become part of the background orchestration. Try it, it works!
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