Audacity Forum

Hi,

I would like to alter a voice so that it is like a dream. You know, when you dream (you often see this in movies) is defined as a background voice (echoing).
How do I get this ?

Thx

You can try Effects > gverb, echo or phaser -- in Audacity 1.3. Not 1.2.

Half of the effect is the actor, though. Nothing kills the effect faster than the actor saying flat lines in a dream sequence. Sometimes the actor messing up is played for comedic effect. Effects and filters over a normal, conversational voice. If you're in a serious voice-from-the-dead or dream scene, you can't do that. Experiment.


Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.

Koz

By the way this is one of those Hollywood "Everybody Knows" things. Everybody knows dream sequences need to have tons of special effects when in real life they look just like a straight, flat recording of the real thing.

"Inception" got it right. Each layer looked pretty normal except then they put a little Hollywood in there to make it interesting.

"Everybody Knows" radar needs to go round and round even though they haven't actually done that since 1979.

Koz