X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Win 10
Aud. 2.3.2

I’m looking to reproduce that warbly, distorted radio sound you hear when the X-Wing fighter pilots speak on their radios.

That doable with Audacity?

#starwars

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It’s a long time since I’ve seen StarWars, but the usual approach for creating a “walkie-talkie” type effect is:

  1. Apply some distortion (For example, the “Leveller” distortion https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/distortion.html)
  2. Apply a “band pass filter” (For example, the "walkie-talkie preset https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/equalization.html)
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https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-simulate-single-sideband-modulation-effect/51641/2

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I got lost after following the link & clicking on the download.

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This is EXACTLY what I’m shooting for!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ad84BMo_gQ

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Copy & paste the code into Nyquist prompt …

X-fighter-ish code in Audcaity's Nyquist Prompt.png
Then apply Nyquist prompt like any other Audacity effect.

Then you have to apply a phone/walkie-talkie/ radio effect,
(i.e. 200Hz-4000Hz bandpass with hard compression).


Then you’ll need to perfect an Australian accent :slight_smile:

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Argg! Tried that (with both codes) & just got a message- “Nyquist returned nil audio”

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I think that translates as: you didn’t select the audio you wish the code to be applied to …

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_selection.html

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Womp wooomp! Thanks! :slight_smile: