Tech TangentsWhat every self respecting software engineer is thinking inside as they watch AI wreck everything.
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"Look! We used AI to remove vocals from songs!"
*meanwhile in the 80s*
"We accidentally got some wires backwards and realized we could usually remove the vocals, so here's that in a box"
From: https://books.google.com/books?id=0AAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=false
Gregly@TechTangents I’m guessing they did something like outputting left + inverted right to the left speaker, and right + inverted left to the right speaker, since most vocals would be panned to center? Would be interesting to see a schematic.
Dec [{(
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The PAiA Vocal Zapper 6730 (from the 1980s or possibly even the 1970s) used a very simple circuit.
(schematic on page 10 of the PDF)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240318064953/https://paia.com/manuals/docs/6730-vocazman.pdf
The PAiA website is "currently offline due to unforeseen health-related circumstances" - I hope everyone involved is OK.