Snarf-it Forums : How to remove Vocals

You’ll need to instal 2 things for this,
Vocal Remover DirectX Plugin, which is free.
ACID Pro, which is $400. If you don’t have 400 dollars, you can download the trial version and save you project as a wav. Then convert the wav into an mp3 with Audacity

Tube Screamer’s Secret - A free vst plugin and an article that reveals the key design aspect of the legendary overdrive pedal. Although the circuit design details of the legendary Tube Screamer® overdrive pedal have been extensively analyzed and documented2 in the past, the key aspect of its design, which is primarily responsible for the signature overdrive sound, has remained unrevealed. This key aspect consists of a subtlety in the clipping circuit employed by the legend. Operational Amplifier based inverting amplifiers with back-to-back diodes in the negative feedback path are common clipping circuits which are regularly utilized in overdrive and distortion effect designs3 …

(TUBE SCREAMER® is a registered trademark of Hoshino Gakki Co. Ltd.)

Cockos Incorprated offers some free Music Related Products :

1. Reaper : a free multi-track audio prototyping and recording environment for Windows.

• Supports ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound for playback and recording
• Reads WAV, OGG, MP3 and MIDI files, records WAV and MIDI files
• Lets you arrange any number of items in any number of tracks
• Supports audio processing plug-ins (DirectX, VST, and Jesusonic) with automation
• Volume, pan controls and envelopes per track
• Multi-layer undo/redo support
• User creatable color themes

2. Jesusonic is a free fully programmable effects processor for guitar, bass, vocal and general use. Jesusonic is available in software form, and soon, in hardware form. Jesusonic Software turns your PC or Mac into a fully programmable realtime effects processor.

3. NINJAM - "faketime" music collaboration software. A program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.

DtBlkFx (by Darrell Barrell) is a Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) based Virtual Sound Technology (VST) plug-in
for use in audio software supporting such stuff.

It combines elements of distortion, filtering and synthesis in order to make you smile.

It has an easy to use interface and lets you do all kinds of things - examples are:

• Brick-wall (sharp roll off) filtering
• Harmonic based filtering
• Various types of noise control
• Frequency shifting
• Something similar to vocoding
• Many unique effects

More free vst plugins here ( 1510 ! )

The Heeb CrunchDude 0.1 is a very simple, yet effective guitar amplifier emulation VST plugin. As the name implies, its strength lies not only in clean or over-the-top lead sounds, but especially in the excellent crunch sounds it can produce (certainly a weak point in many similar devices, virtual or otherwise). Its use is not limited to the electric guitar however. It can also be extremely useful in processing e.g. bass guitar, synthesizers, etc. Let your imagination run wild, and let your ears be the judge!

Other free vst plugins can be found by category in our database. ( thx Heeb )

Tweakbench has some nice free vst effects. ( only pc )

YOINK
yoink is a vst effect best used for live performace. it has an inline sampler that you can grab samples from the current live effect channel. you can then trim the loop, reverse, and process with effects in realtime.

PUDDING
pudding is a granular delay effect with detailed synchronization features and lots of randomization thrown in the mix.

MAELCUM
maelcum is a tape-like delay module. designed specifically to emulate the classic tape delays, maelcum has internal tape noise generation, with variable mix, and either tempo based or manually entered delay time. rub a dub dub.

CAIRO
cairo is a tempo synchronized gate effect. choose a gate speed, and modify the envelope to cut up your audio into different sized slices, with soft or smooth edges.

BREAKDOWN
breakdown is a filter effect with an internal variable length step sequencer.