NO, Thank You! - Vocals Only (High Quality)【MIO, MUGI, RITSU, YUI】K-On!!

I tried to also show who sings when! All sung by Ho-kago Tea Time (放課後ティタイム) minus Azusa* in the full version of けいおん！！S2ED2!!
I use these for 3D music in VRC but I want to share them because the quality is so uniquely high!
Spotlights show who is singing, the other visuals are just for fun! Vocals are -6dB from the original (-2dB from instruments) to prevent all extra peaking. Sync with the other tracks is perfect.

VOCALS SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION:
The vocals are very crispy this time, I'm sorry!! I tried many things to no avail, but it could still be worse if I didn't lower the volume during isolation. It's hard to hear the backing keions aside from Mugi due to all the noise but i'm still very confident in what I signified. They light up even more when I'm almost sure I can hear them sing!

*2024/1: After using a new generation AI program (UVR) to split my "all vocals only" isolation into stereo lead and backing vocals, I heard Azusa or Ritsu sounding like Azusa immediately sing a lower harmony on the right side to the "Mugi" part. Also the crispyness in general but especially noticeable on the "Yui" part was completely removed. No single voice there except Mio's own backing is very prominent there. But likely they are all still singing the same backing notes in lower volume, just like the nice slow part. There the sooo clear stereo backing reminds me of them singing their school's anthem.





NO, THANK YOU! DESCRIPTION:
YES, Thank you to all the average cake & tea enjoyers!! I went all out on this one as it will most likely be the last of the official isolated INSTRUMENTS with this level of quality. Well, I say that, but there's a lot more crackling than usual, especially in the vocals because the song seems to be rendered in too high volume. It's fine when all played together, but after isolating the tracks all these masked clip-peaks become very audible, but the producers obviously didn't need to have what I'd do a decade later in mind! (Although they did fix this in the high-res release which I could only use to isolate a few songs' lead vocals. They sound really cool like a stage effect but have a lot of background noise still in them)

The metronome seemed also distorted by this clipping, so it's impossible to fully remove it at times, so it's more audible than in any other video (AI also couldn't work). I still tried to mitigate every hit, balancing remaining metronome noise with extra bg/crackling. It's very noticeable at the quiet bridge part, but luckily I managed to save most of that part with some more phasing trickery. I used to think only Go! Go! MANIAC & Listen!! were possible to isolate in great quality, specifically due to the metronomes, so I'm happy I still got so close with this & the other tracks!

I also actually worked like 3 times as much on the video as on the audio (mostly due to laggy editing)! Maybe to compensate for the kinda disappointing audio, but also cause I imagined cool lighting effects for Mugi & Azusa. Also, people liked Ritsu's snare hits a lot so I wanted to do some proper rhytm sync, but then I couldn't leave out the others..! I truly perfectly wasted my potential, cause it was all done manually! I'm never gonna spend this much time on the video aspect again if I continue!! (You're here for the tracks, video was just supposed to be an excuse to put it on YouTube :P, although I WAS able to use this extra time to make some final improvements to the sound)





GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
No AI or other filters were used at all. I inverted the phase of the instrumental track and put it exactly over the original track, rendered in original stereo. Look at the tutorial I made in the playlist description for more details:
   • Go! Go! MANIAC - All Isolated Tracks in HD...  

I think the very quiet parts from the other instruments carrying over is mostly from the many small audio compression differences between the tracks, although I kinda like it like that. It feels like the sound is bleeding over from them wearing headphones when singing along to the song or something

Thanks for listening, use this as you wish!