Audio in Vegas Pro 9.0

Duncan H wrote on 10/14/2009, 3:31 AM
I'm working on a video project that needs to emulate a caller over a radio call in telephone line. I've tried playing around with various audio settings within Vegas 9.0 (original audio file is a pristine CD quality recording on a Zoom H2 digital recorder), but none of my attenuated audios are remotely similar to a radio call in telephone line (that's what I need to emulate for this project). Anyone have any experience with converting pristine audio to dive time radio telephone quality audio please??
Any help on FX setting much appreciated.

Duncan

Comments

Duncan H wrote on 10/14/2009, 3:37 AM
That should read "drive time" radio content
farss wrote on 10/14/2009, 4:53 AM
Please don't laugh, I'm being serious. Do it and record it. I mean it's not that hard to playout audio into a telephone and record from another telephone. You could probably even get away with actually calling a talkback show and...... you get the idea.
Other idea, buy a pair of those cheap walky talkies.

You might think me a tad nuts saying all this but the Hollywood audio guys get paid big dollars for creating all manner of sound FXs and much of what they do is done as I've just described. The sound of one famous robot character was made by a hand cranked rusty old gizmo found in a flea market.

Bob.
ChipGallo wrote on 10/14/2009, 6:18 AM
If you have Sound Forge 9, the parametric EQ has a filter called "phone line effect." In the iZotope Mastering EQ filters plugs, there is a phone line effect that is even better (or at least more drastic). Tthe iZotope tools were bundled with SF 9 and have plug-ins for Vegas.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/14/2009, 8:19 AM
I agree with Bob's approach. With a good portable recorder the result will be excellent.

That being said, we had a recent discussion about the audio bandwidth in phone systems:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=19&MessageID=665506

Also, several years back there was a very detailed discussion of this (in the Sound Forge forum I think). Do a search.
Duncan H wrote on 10/14/2009, 2:03 PM
Many thanks - I'll give the phone to phone idea a fly first - sadly I hadn't thought of that!! Always looking for a Vegas answer - overlooked the obvious - much appreciated!!

Duncan
LoTN wrote on 10/14/2009, 9:04 PM
Hello, I would have a try with EQ (sharp band pass centered on 1k) -> resonant -> distorsion. Does it make sense ?