The Music Mixer states that vocals can be "stripped" from CDs, however, I have found that the vocals are reduced in volume but still very audible when doing this. I find this rather annoying and was wondering if this is just the way it is?
Am I doing something wrong or is this normal? I was expecting that the vocals would be removed completely.
Rather disappointing.

what? how do you strip them in the first place?

Vocal Stripping is extremely difficult to achieve. All musical instruments produce sounds that vary in frequency. Vocals do too. How can you distinguish between the vocal sound at 600-900Hz and an instrument thats range covers 400Hz to 1kHz. You can't do it.

So you can EQ out the frequencies that the vocal covers. If you EQ that range out totally (ie. what you want - totally no vocals') you also EQ out instruments leaving a horrid gaping hole in your music.

So you got a choice. Little bit of vocal or big gaping hole.

 

Hope this helps.