Im looking for a phone call effect sound for a voice...any ideas?

duck wrote on 11/29/2001, 6:59 PM

Okay i have vegas video 3 and sound forge 5 and im looking for an effect to apply to a voice that is supposed to sound like it is on the other end of a phone call..someoen is talking to someone else and as of now both voices sound the same..any ideas?
thanks email if possible.

coonsch@mnstate.edu

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SHTUNOT wrote on 11/29/2001, 7:11 PM

Take the vox track and open it up in soundforge. Then open the "parameteric eq" plugin. There is a patch in there called "phone line effect"...preview/tweak it. Make a copy of it first and apply the effect to the copy[so that after reimporting if you don't like what it sounds like in the mix you do not have to rerecord the take]. I've written down those parameters and applied it to other eqs to see if I could get better results. If you have a eq of choice then try the settings on that one as well on another copy and see how it works. Later.

stumacQ wrote on 11/29/2001, 7:23 PM

Or ... if you don't have Sound Forge ...

Sweep all of the lows out of the signal up to around 250Hz with a parametric EQ. Then sweep the highs off SHARPLY at 4,000Hz. This is very close to the actual bandwidth of voice phone calls, but it often leaves the voice unintelligable in a mix with other high-frequency material. If this is the case, sweep the highs up until you can understand what's being said, probably not much higher than 5,000 or 6,000Hz.

It's an over-used trick, but it works great for a lot of material.

Hope that helps!

(stu.macQ)