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How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:23 pm
by Strickalator
I want to create a voice that sounds like it is coming from heaven, how do I acomplish that with effects on Audacity?
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:39 pm
by billw58
First, you need a "god-like" voice. Trying to alter a "non-god-like" voice will just lead to frustration.
Once you've got the voice, try adding echo and reverb.
Tips on using reverb are on this wiki page:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=GVerb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNVBbUnW ... re=related starting at 3:25
-- Bill
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:38 pm
by Strickalator
Thanks I had not seen the Reverb plugin , thats going to go a long way for neat effects
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:55 pm
by kozikowski
thats going to go a long way for neat effects
But maybe not all the way to God-Voice. This is a very similar posting to the people wanting to be turned into announcer/presenters. You can make an announcing voice better, but you can't start with a 10 year old's voice and magically turn it into Don LaFontaine. It's not a timbre or pitch problem, although it may sound like it. They speak differently than you or me with studied emphasis, pitch, and interpretation.
Koz
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:57 pm
by kozikowski
In the movie "Time Bandits," they didn't even try. Their "Supreme Being" looked and sounded suspiciously like a banker from London.
Koz
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:13 am
by Strickalator
I think I got it, this is my own voice with some gverb effect
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:18 am
by kozikowski
A little overbaked in my opinion -- you need to still be clearly intelligible after the effects. You started out half-way there with a reasonable voice. Back off on the reverb a touch and maybe try the Change Pitch downward one or two piano notes (before the reverb). Don't go much further. Change Pitch is very unforgiving.
Koz
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:23 am
by kozikowski
There is one other possibility. There are software packages that can automatically simulate a horn section from one horn by timing and pitch changes and multiple recursive copies. I wonder what that would sound like on a voice.....
I need to see if I can find that package.
That points up one thing the Hollywood people don't have to worry about
"They did a good job on the God Voice in that movie. It sounded exactly like God."
Koz
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:24 am
by kozikowski
I want to create a voice that sounds like it is coming from heaven
Aren't you supposed to have harps playing...
Koz
Re: How to have a booming voice like God with effects?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:56 am
by Trebor
Strickalator wrote:daredoom.mp3
That was quite good. It’s worth mentioning that some reverb effects mix tiny bit of one channel to the other, Gverb doesn’t, so your god/devil voice could be wider …
Freeverb and ANWIDA reverb do have this little bit of crossover, (whether you want it or not: can't switch it off).
BTW boosting the higher frequencies (2KHz -10KHz makes your god/devil voice more intelligible, (but does also exaggerate any hiss).
BTW2 a
pop shield will help attenuate your plosives ... "I will
Be your doom".