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Speaking strictly from my own experiences and observations, in one genre of 
music.  I have purchased hundreds of backing trax or "minus one" recordings 
over the years, of contemporary Christian songs for church use.

1.  Some of these are exceptional copycats, and while it can be discerned 
these are not the original musicians and/or instruments, they are very close 
and fool the average listener that is not intimately familiar with the 
artist recording.

2.  Some of these trax are of the original musicians but another recording 
session, not the one that was made 'popular'.  They sound slightly different 
just as the copycat trax do, and the lead vocal is completely absent.  In my 
opinion these are a mix without the lead vocals added in.

3.  On some of these trax you can hear the faint lead vocal's reverb in the 
background.  If I take the original artist recording and put it through the 
old remove center of stereo image trick, my results sound very similar.  In 
my opinion that is exactly what I purchased, perhaps tweaked up a bit better 
than I have done.

4.  I have purcahsed "minus one" recordings that are without a doubt the 
original artist's popular recording, and the lead vocals are entirely 
absent.  In those instances they are often marketed as "original artist 
studio mixes".  These seem to be the exact same airplay mix that became 
popular, but without the lead vocal, and are generally the newer songs. 
When the "minus one" church trax industry recently took off like wildfire 
the studios responded with a very marketable by-product.
-- 
Sue Morton

"Dec [Cluskey]" <dec@makehits.com> wrote in message 
news:2aaed80f-3ba8-4a42-a26b-4a1ba25e77f3@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> I have noticed in the past year or so that back tracks bought from
> High Quality companies in the UK are hard to distinguish from the
> original chart hits.  In fact, some would seem to still have a
> smidgeon of the star's lead vocal on.