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How to Remove Swear Words from Songs
How to Remove Swear Words from Songs
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Written by Noah Feasey-Kemp
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If you need to remove swear words from songs, for instance, to create a clean version for radio play, follow these steps. This guide will walk you through splitting the track into instrumental and acapella, editing the acapella, and exporting the final mix.

In the near future, we come with an AI transcription extension where we can automatically mute the naughty words. For now you can mute explicit words using stem separation:


If you want to remove swear words from songs, you need to

  1. Split the track into a Acapella and Instrumental by right-clicking on the track and select the option to "Split into Instrumental and Acapella". This will separate the vocals from the instrumental parts of the track. The Acapella will be shown on the sample lane.

  2. Select the acapella sample

  3. Click on the V on your keyboard to add a Volume automation

  4. Add 4 automation points to the Volume automation line.

  5. Bring the Volume of the vocal down by dragging the white volume line down between the second and the third volume automation point where the explicit word is used.

  6. Replace or silence the sections with the bad words.


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​This video shows how you can mute the vocals.

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