Creating a radio voice transmission effect
Added 2020-08-22 12:10:44 +0000 UTCIn this livestreamed tutorial I show you what (and why) you can do to make a recorded voice sound like it's being transmitted through an analogue wireless communication system.
You can download the finished Ardour 6.2 session to play with it yourself (licensed under CC-0 1.0).
In case you don't have 45 minutes to watch it all here's a cheat sheet:
- Lowpass (simulate low frequency response of the transmission)
- Highpass (simulate a small speaker playing back the transmitted signal)
- Distortion (simulate overloading the transmitter's microphone) · Hard Gate (simulate weak signal reception)
- Noise + Gate (simulate background noise, but only during transmission)
- Reverb (simulate environment of the transmitter microphone)
- Ringmod (simulate radio interference)
- EQ to boost plosives (simulate no microphone wind screen and proximity effect) and add harsh resonances (to simulate suboptimal cheap microphone construction and chassis)
- In/Out Noise Bursts (simulate signal cutoff at the end of transmission)
- Use a crappy microphone or headphones to capture the voice lines in the first place
