Make your own Japanese karaoke music in 30 minutes with a Japanese-compatible computer.
Since its inception and expansion throughout Japan in the early 1970s, karaoke has spread throughout the world to take up permanent residence in bars around the globe. Although the music of each respective country prevails when a participant belts out a tune, it is often too difficult to resist taking either a classic or contemporary Japanese tune and singing along with the melody. With modern advances in home-based audio technology, making your own karaoke CD with your favorite Japanese songs can take as little as 30 minutes.
Instructions
1. Download software that allows you to remove the lead vocal from a music track. There are many options, but a popular choice is Audacity, a free open-source audio program. Several of the online troubleshooting and instructional guides for karaoke use Audacity. Alternatively, there are several software programs specifically designed for karaoke in mind, including Vogone Advanced Vocal Eliminator. See Resource section for more information.
2. Open the file of your chosen song within the program. If you're using Audacity, two separate tracks should appear; this setup should also be standard for most audio creation programs.
3. Click on the bottom or second track to highlight it, and select the "Invert" option under the "Effects" tab. When this is completed, click each track and select "Mono" for both. This will separate the lead vocal from the "background music," which is what you want on your karaoke file.
4. Export the new sound file as a .wav file, which can be read by almost any audio playback program. You can alternately save it as a different audio format, but CDs generally can't read most of these other formats.
5. Repeat steps 2--4 for as many tracks as you want to convert. Depending on the capacity of the CD, you should be able to put between 12--20 songs on it.
6. Burn the track to a CD using CD burning software. Many computers come with this kind of software pre-installed, but you can also install software online, such as Nero or Power2Go.
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