telephone vocal effect

[adam]

Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
"telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?
Thanks,
-Adam

[coreybenson]

On Feb 2, 3:50 pm, "Adam" > wrote:
> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
> like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
> "telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
> filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
> an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
> mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?
> Thanks,
> -Adam
>

How about just using an eq to dump everything below 500 hz, about 3
Khz, and adding a touch of distortion?

What's your usage? Within a DAW or live sound? This is very simple
with basic tools in a DAW.

Corey

[Beauchampy]

Adam wrote:
> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
> like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
> "telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
> filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
> an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
> mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?
> Thanks,
> -Adam
>
>
>
>

Izotope Trash, or like Corey said, a simple eq/filter and a bit of
distortion.

[Tobiah]

Adam wrote:
> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
> like your on telephone?

sampling at about 6000Hz may get you close right off. You might
just want to cut some of the base below say 500Hz as well.

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[spud]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:02 -0500, "Adam" > wrote:

>Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
>like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
>"telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
>filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
>an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
>mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?
>Thanks,
>-Adam

>
I called my answering machine and left my part on the machine, then
miced the speaker and played back the message. Sounded exactly like a
telephone.
Or: You can record your voice normally and play it back through
headphones. Just flip the cans open on the desk and bring up the
monitors a tiny bit, then mic the room.
Or: TC Works makes a plug called Filtrator. Not exactly like a
telephone but radical and cool. Bon chance, s.

[LAB]

Some years ago I have used a little speaker as a microphone, mounted in
a half plastic bottle. Signal a bit low, but if you speak close to the
speaker it's not so bad...

Another solution is using a telephone in a simple circuit with a
battery, a resistor and a capacitor.

Gianluca

[David Morgan \(MAMS\)]

"Adam" > wrote in message ...
> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
> like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
> "telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
> filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
> an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
> mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?


Just run it through a 31 band graphic EQ, and kill everything below 600 and above 2K.

viola'

[Scott Dorsey]

Tobiah > wrote:
>Adam wrote:
>> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
>> like your on telephone?
>
>sampling at about 6000Hz may get you close right off. You might
>just want to cut some of the base below say 500Hz as well.

I tend to like a narrower cut than that, say 500 to 4000 cycles. Use the
narrowest filters you have, so they ring like mad. Then clip the signal
just a tiny bit to make it buzzy; if you don't have any analogue stuff
to overload, it's possible you can make a limiter sound right by abusing
it.

It may also help to add a touch of a presence boost.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Roy W. Rising]

"coreybenson" > wrote:
> On Feb 2, 3:50 pm, "Adam" > wrote:
> > Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice
> > sound like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects
> > processor with a "telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's
> > just in there for filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio
> > shack website.. there's an output on the transceiver, so i should be
> > able to plug it right into the mixer.. has anyone tried this method
> > with success? Thanks,
> > -Adam
> >
>
> How about just using an eq to dump everything below 500 hz, about 3
> Khz, and adding a touch of distortion?
>
> What's your usage? Within a DAW or live sound? This is very simple
> with basic tools in a DAW.
>
> Corey

The "Phone Effects Filters" used to achieve the "expected" sound of a phone
voice typically are 18 dB/octave HP/LP filters set for about 500 Hz and 3
KHz. This is the range long ago found by Bell Labs to make the best
tradeoff between bandwidth and intelligibility. These slopes are severe,
introducing electrical phase distortion. Other added distortions usually
are not present.

Keep in mind that the many decades of sound with pictures, including radio
~ Theater of the Mind ~ have taught us to expect sounds that might not be
real. Gunshots are a prime example.

--
~ Roy
"It's NOT the mic, it's NOT the preamp!"

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jk phone, RTAS. Works great. Exactly for that purpose.

www.sonoria.pl/jk/protools.html

[Tom Garneau]

Get a crystal ham mic like an Astatic d-104. Instant telephone effect.
Plug into a guitar amp, even better.

cheers,

tom

Adam > wrote:

> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
> like your on the telephone? I have a Lexicon MPX-1 effects processor with a
> "telephone" setting, but it's weak.. seems like it's just in there for
> filler.. i saw a cheap ($60) cb radio on the radio shack website.. there's
> an output on the transceiver, so i should be able to plug it right into the
> mixer.. has anyone tried this method with success?
> Thanks,
> -Adam
>

[adam]

thanks for all the advice. i appreciate it.
-adam

[adam]

i downloaded jk phone RTAS, but i don't think it's compatible with
MacBooks..

> wrote in message
ps.com...
> jk phone, RTAS. Works great. Exactly for that purpose.
>
> www.sonoria.pl/jk/protools.html
>
>
>

[Tobiah]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Tobiah > wrote:
>> Adam wrote:
>>> Any suggestions on a plug-in (RTAS) or processor that makes your voice sound
>>> like your on telephone?
>> sampling at about 6000Hz may get you close right off. You might
>> just want to cut some of the base below say 500Hz as well.
>
> I tend to like a narrower cut than that, say 500 to 4000 cycles.

I was just ball parking, but actually, a signal sampled at 6000Hz
should remove frequencies above 3000Hz, so my proposition would result
in the more narrow signal.

Tobiah

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