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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Meatball on February 11, 2010, 11:25:59 am
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I tried to search around here on the site, didn't find anything, but if you know this exists in a good explanation how to, please link :)
When I'm recording my own voice, I use sometimes like Audacity and try to use my voice to get different kind of voices. One thing i haven't been successful in is to make the Voice kinda sound like its a bad mic, not to bad, not as clear I have and you sometimes here on ventrilo talks, more studding, noisily, like in the Freespace 2 campaigns.
I hope you know what I mean, cuz I haven't find a way to get it right.
PS: A hint, ehm. If you have the Speech on the controlpanel, Microsoft Sam has kinda to much of that kind of voice, and its a robotvoice. But if you have downloaded some new ones, like Microsoft Mike, his "recording" sound is very good. Id like that in my voice recording ^^
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You mean the way the voice sounds like it's coming over a radio? In-mission messages versus briefing messages?
There should be a "radio filter" in most audio editors for that.
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In audacity you can use a FFT filter. Google "radio effect audacity".
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Look around here: http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2008/09/morph-your-voic.html
Don't forget to remove noise before starting the effects.
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That sound is the result of rolling off the high and low frequencies, leaving only the midrange. That's pretty much all that a 'radio filter' does, although it may boost some frequencies at the cutoff point.
Grab any parametric or semi-parametric (easier) EQ, or run the signal through a band pass filter (or through a low pass filter AND a high pass filter), tweak to taste.
If you're confused about any of these terms, wikipedia is your friend .. :pimp:
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Independent research has shown that good results are achieved with just cutting off the low end of the spectrum, say, highpass filter with 500 Hz threshold.
It makes a reasonably good "small speaker driven at high volume" -type of effect, which is what makes the radio sound "radio-like" according to the rule of perception. The amplitude of the signal might need to be boosted, possibly with volume-levelling filter.
Cutting off both low AND high frequencies might end up producing more realistic sound effect, but not necessarily better as a whole...