Bassoon Extractor and Remover

How to extract the bassoon from a song

1. Upload the song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes. The first time, you sign in with Google.
2. Press Extract the bassoon. The price shows on the button before it runs: 1 credit for every minute of music. A new account starts with 5 credits, enough for one song up to 5 minutes. Most jobs take 1 to 3 minutes.
3. Listen and download. You get two reels: Bassoon and Without the bassoon. Click one to hear only that file. Each downloads on its own as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

The bassoon in music

The bassoon is the low double-reed instrument. In an orchestra it supplies the bass of the woodwind group, and it can be warm and serious or funny and gruff. Film composers use it for comic walks and for dark, creeping lines. In a pop or rock track you rarely hear it, and when you do it is usually in the arrangement of a ballad or a studio piece.

Bassoonists use the Bassoon file to learn the tricky solos in orchestral pieces. Orchestrators check how it doubles the cellos. People making sample libraries want a clean low line.

What it gets confused with

In the low register the bassoon sounds like a cello, a tuba, or a baritone sax. The Bassoon file may carry parts of those if they play in unison. Try the Tuba Extractor, Trombone Extractor or Saxophone Extractor if you suspect one of them is in the line. Its higher relative is the Oboe Extractor, and the Clarinet Extractor overlaps in the middle. The group page is the Woodwind Extractor.

Hard and easy

An exposed bassoon solo is easier. A bassoon doubling the cellos and basses in a loud passage is hard, because they share notes and color.