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Title: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on September 25, 2006, 12:41:27 am
What it says in the thread title.  It doesn't have to be perfect, just recognizable.  The best impression will be selected by me for inclusion in a secret project that may or may not have a three letter acronym. :drevil:
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: CP5670 on October 01, 2006, 12:54:37 pm
Make sure whoever you get occasionally skips words like the real one. :D
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on October 01, 2006, 01:31:52 pm
:lol: I think that was because the noise filter that :v: used wasn't sensitive enough to pick up his low-volume words.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Nix on October 02, 2006, 02:06:30 pm
Admiral Petrarch = Robert Loggia?  That's gonna be hard to top.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Blue Lion on October 02, 2006, 02:07:53 pm
Just try to call him and see if he'll do some lines. He can't be that busy.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Mongoose on October 02, 2006, 08:45:14 pm
Heh, now you've got me actually trying to pull off his voice, despite the fact I have little to no chance of doing so.  And let me tell you: it really hurts. :p Robert Loggia has a very gravelly voice, but he still manages to throw a lot of emotion in there.  It'd be a hard thing for someone to get right.

Edit: You know, the more I try it, the more I think I'm at least able to get something barely recognizable as his mannerisms, if not his exact tone.  It's not anything even remotely worth posting yet, but maybe if I keep fooling around with it, I'll be able to come up with something that doesn't utterly suck. :p
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on October 02, 2006, 11:37:19 pm
:yes: :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Mongoose on October 18, 2006, 04:18:51 pm
Just to let you know, I haven't completely given up on this. :p With any luck, I'll have some free time this weekend to take another crack at it.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on October 18, 2006, 06:43:06 pm
K. :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Mongoose on October 23, 2006, 02:04:15 am
All righty; here's (http://home.comcast.net/~andrewduk/petrarch_attempts.rar) what I was able to come up with over the course of an hour or so.  I took a few lines from the ending cutscenes and various command briefings and tried my best to voice-match to them, with varying levels of success.  I can't really tell if it rocks, sucks, or is somewhere in between, so tell me what you think. :)

(Oh, and a cookie if you can tell me where all four lines come from. :p)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on October 23, 2006, 07:24:38 pm
The ending cutscenes and various command briefings.  Nyaah. :p

Okay, cool.  These sound good enough to work with -- not perfect, but not bad.  I'll use them if nothing better comes along.

Anyone else care to audition?
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 24, 2006, 10:30:31 am
Unless you can get someone with a deep, raspy voice, I think Mongoose is the best you can ask for when it comes to filling deeper-voiced roles. :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Darkblade on October 25, 2006, 09:40:38 am
I can give it a try. I'll upload my samples tomorrow once I have the chance to record them.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Darkblade on October 26, 2006, 02:10:12 am
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rgbph5

Here is my attempt of Admiral Petrarch. Nothing close of Robert Loggias voice but still... give it a listen.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on October 26, 2006, 04:04:53 pm
Hmm.

Well, you've got the intonation down pretty well, but that Finnish accent doesn't sound like Petrarch, sad to say. ;)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Darkblade on October 27, 2006, 01:34:58 pm
Yeah, that is my downside in all samples. :(

But that is the best I can do. Bloody parents, why couldn't you have been American!
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: PotzUK on October 29, 2006, 06:46:29 am
Petrarch maybe not, but a damned good admiral's voice nonetheless :) 
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: highfive on November 04, 2006, 11:21:48 pm
Hey, I have a fairly deep voice and I'll try it but I haven't played Freespace in a while so do you have any samples of his voice that you can upload?
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on November 04, 2006, 11:59:38 pm
See attached.

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Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: nubbles526 on November 23, 2006, 04:19:24 am
He has a rather deep, sad voice. Probably a old man. My dad (quite old) can do the voice. But the only thing is, that he has this chinese accent. I don't think it suites Pertreach.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Vasudan Commander on January 11, 2007, 01:28:55 am
I can do it. I've got a great voice, and i can imitate almost anyone.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on January 11, 2007, 11:34:46 pm
I can do it. I've got a great voice, and i can imitate almost anyone.
Great!  Post an audition here.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 06, 2007, 12:15:31 pm
Goob, I know this is a bump, but did you ever make a decision or are you still looking for people? I am considering making an attempt. I can do deep, but I am not sure about the gravely-ness. BUT if you have it cast already, or don't need it any longer... well, then there's no point, is there?
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 06, 2007, 12:18:34 pm
Still looking for people.  I haven't found anyone close enough yet.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 06, 2007, 07:30:00 pm
And, so long as it sounds good (ie can't really tell), do you mind if we digitally alter our voices to match what you need?

EDIT: Well, just went ahead and did it without waiting for your answer. There are 6 files here. Petrarch1, 2, and 3 are how I originally recorded them. Petrarch1altered, 2altered, and 3altered have had a full bass bost to emphasize the deepness and the gravelyness, and their pitch has been reduced to be 40% of one tone lower than normal to make the voice a little deeper. There are not cleaned for background noise or anything, because this is very rough. Tell me what you think!

Linky: http://files.filefront.com/PetrarchAuditionzip/;6875803;;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/PetrarchAuditionzip/;6875803;;/fileinfo.html)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 06, 2007, 08:42:39 pm
Nope. :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 06, 2007, 09:21:30 pm
Nope what? Nope you don't mind, or nope the samples won't work? (I edited my last post and put a link in it, in case you didn't see)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 07, 2007, 11:07:00 am
Oh.  Nope, I don't mind.  That is, what I want is the voice; it doesn't matter whether you do processing or not.

Also, I didn't see your link.  I'll download and give those a listen.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 07, 2007, 11:09:59 am
Cool! *gets all excited, waiting to hear*
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 07, 2007, 07:50:09 pm
Wow, that's pretty good.  Better than anything I've heard yet. :)

It's still not gravelly enough, though, and it sounds like you didn't do too much processing on it.  Could you try to fiddle around with it some more?
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 07, 2007, 07:56:04 pm
I can swing my voice towards either gravely or deep, but not both at the same time, really. Not that I have a high voice most of the time anyway, but it's not as deep as his needs to be. I am concerned about having to deepen the pitch too much so that it sounds really off-speed, but I'll give it a try. Expect more linkage within 30 minutes.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 07, 2007, 08:56:22 pm
OK, now I think it's too deep. I emphasised the gravel so much that now the tone is off. Still, think it can work? Maybe a really cleaver sound designer could get us some actual 'noise' to put in the background to create the gravel illusion.
http://files.filefront.com/petrarchtry2ogg/;6883195;;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/petrarchtry2ogg/;6883195;;/fileinfo.html)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Mongoose on March 09, 2007, 02:12:52 am
It's occurred to me that, if Robert Loggia didn't have such a distinctively awesome voice, trying to get somewhere close to him would be far easier.  Then again, if he didn't, I'm guessing that no one would want to attempt to in the first place. :p
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 09, 2007, 02:49:55 pm
I'd say that's a safe assumption, yes :P. It's really hard to get the gravalyness unless you sound like you just have a cold. And when I DO get it right, it's really deep, but doesn't sound a thing like him. It is a no-win situation. Grr.
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 09, 2007, 08:25:02 pm
It's really hard to get the gravalyness unless you sound like you just have a cold.
You know, one of the possibilities I was thinking of was waiting until I had a cold, or something like bronchitis, and then trying to record myself.  But I haven't gotten sick in ages.  If anyone here does, I welcome your auditions. :lol:

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And when I DO get it right, it's really deep, but doesn't sound a thing like him. It is a no-win situation. Grr.
Au contraire.  I think the gravellyness is the key.  Have a listen to this, which is your second sample run through a pitch filter and bass boost in Audacity:

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Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Huggybaby on March 10, 2007, 12:15:07 am
The classic solution is to yell until you get hoarse, then drink a lot of whiskey and smoke a lot of cigarettes. Or just have someone punch you in the throat.  :lol:
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 10, 2007, 02:39:22 am
Hm. I guess I just didn't have the pitch settings right before. Still isn't quite him and his accent, but... do you want me? If you give me the settings you used in Audacity then I can get all the closer and you won't have to doctor them. Anyway, whatever you want is fine by me. I'm ready whenever, but if you want to keep the auditions open that's ok as well. Starting on Thursday, however, my roomies will be going away for Spring Break, so I'll have the whole place to myself and won't have to feel embarrassed about REALLY acting and raising my voice. So if I have your answer by then... all the better for the voice acting. As it is I am still a little whispery because I do not want my roomies knocking on the door asking, "High treason? What's a Vasudan Alliance?" :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Mongoose on March 10, 2007, 11:56:15 am
That sample that Goober posted turned out really, really well.  Alex, if you can get a bit more of the high-end in Loggia's voice in there, I think you'll be closer than anyone else has a chance of getting. :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Goober5000 on March 10, 2007, 01:30:54 pm
Hm. I guess I just didn't have the pitch settings right before. Still isn't quite him and his accent, but... do you want me? If you give me the settings you used in Audacity then I can get all the closer and you won't have to doctor them. Anyway, whatever you want is fine by me. I'm ready whenever, but if you want to keep the auditions open that's ok as well. Starting on Thursday, however, my roomies will be going away for Spring Break, so I'll have the whole place to myself and won't have to feel embarrassed about REALLY acting and raising my voice. So if I have your answer by then... all the better for the voice acting. As it is I am still a little whispery because I do not want my roomies knocking on the door asking, "High treason? What's a Vasudan Alliance?" :)
:lol:

Yes, go for it.  I think we have a really close approximation right now.  The closer, the better, of course; but this is already really good. :)

I think the effects I used were to lower the pitch by 1 semitone, then boost the bass by 8 at frequency 400.  But feel free to fiddle with these as well. :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: AlexG on March 12, 2007, 11:20:59 am
Cool! Well, then, there's just one more thing I'll need. Send script when ready :)
Title: Re: REQUEST: Someone who can do a decent impression of Admiral Petrarch
Post by: Cobra on March 12, 2007, 12:28:07 pm
I had a listen, and I agree, needs to be just a TAD higher and just a TAD more whispery-ish, even with the filtering (which I personally think it was just a tad overdone). Other than that, it's pretty damn good. :yes:

I know, late, but it's just my two cents. :)