Plucked Strings Extractor

How to extract plucked strings 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 plucked strings. The price is on the button before it runs: 1 credit per minute of music. New accounts get 5 credits. Most songs take 1 to 3 minutes.
3. Listen and download. The reels are Plucked strings and Without the plucked strings. Click one to hear it alone. Each downloads as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

A failed job returns your credits.

What counts as plucked strings

These are string instruments sounded by plucking or strumming rather than a bow: harp, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, sitar, dobro and similar. They tend to have a bright attack and a note that fades fast. That sharp start is what the model uses to tell them apart from sustained strings.

If you want one instrument only, pick its page: Harp Extractor, Mandolin Extractor, Banjo Extractor, Ukulele Extractor, Sitar Extractor or Dobro Extractor. Guitars have their own tools, the Guitar Remover and the Acoustic Guitar Extractor.

When this page is the right one

Use the group file when a song stacks several plucked instruments and you want all of them together, or when you do not know which one you are hearing. A folk or bluegrass track might have mandolin and banjo playing together. A pop song might have a ukulele under a harp glissando.

• Producers can remove the whole plucked layer and keep the vocals and rhythm.
• Players can learn from the combined texture before they dig into one part.
• Sample makers get a clean plucked bed.

Where it struggles

Bowed strings, such as violin and cello, are not meant to land here; use the Bowed Strings Extractor for those. A heavily strummed acoustic guitar can leak into this file, because it shares the same attack and range.