is there a way.. [sound/speakers]

[MienTommy]

is there a way to make 1 set of your speakers only play the background music/beat only? and 1set to play the nonbackground music/the words and stuff only? or make 1set play background and 1 set play both? I got 6 speakers/3 sets.

Like on my cousins car, I can hear the background of the music and the words and stuff at the same Decibel(i think thats wat its called on what sound is measured by)

 

[chickenselects]

Ampere (amps) is the measurement for current
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere

decibel is sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel

 

[MienTommy]

i think its decibel.

 

[mnewxcv]

well youd have to use some sort of crossover, to tell the speakers "hey you 3, play the low frequency shit, and you 3 over there, the highs and mids"

 

[MienTommy]

whats a crossover?

 

[wildfire99]

Even with an XO you're not going to cleanly split anything near true instrument and vocal separation.

As to what a crossover is... well Wikipedia to the rescue (again).

 

[phide]

It's decibel, or dB (the capitalized B for Alexander Graham Bell). For referring to sound pressure, it's dB SPL. And, no, you can't remix something that's already mixed. The best you can do is run certain frequency bands through a crossover network or equalize certain bands to accentuate the general region of the vox (or use a stereo coding technique to attempt to filter out mono-summed content).

I like how you refer to vocals as "nonbackground music/words", by the way. That's pretty amusing.

 

[CodeRed]

This chart explains why it's impossible to separate vocals from the music during regular playback:
http://makinmusic.net/enter/images/Voice-Instrument Frequency Chart.jpg
The frequency ranges of pretty much all instruments overlap with the frequencies of a human voice, thus making it impossible to separate the two.