Audacity Forum

Basically listen to this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhdX1SI ... ntrinter=1

This is a recording from the 30's to 40's, and of course, the sound is not as good as today. How would
go to make my modern HD recording sound very old like this, and sound as authentic as possible.

Now please listen to this :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 5/Tito.ogg

This is a speech by Josip Broz Tito (Great Guy , and it's not quite as old as the Adolf Hitler recording,
this one is probably 60's to 70's. Again, how would I go across to make it sound like this.
Please reply, thanks

Easy. Go through early audio wire recorder, early tape, or an early disk recorder -- vinyl or wax.

Hitler in particular was speaking into early Neumann condenser microphone into a high quality public address and radio network. He didn't sound at all like that when he was speaking, guaranteed. All those sounds and characteristics are a function of the recording medium which at the time, sucked. Wire recorders were terrible, but that's what they had. Oh, one more, that sound-on-film galvanometer thing which had the fidelity of AM radio. I believe that's what Leni Riefenstahl used under some conditions.

The second example had vinyl clicks and pops which is totally cheating. You have to do limited frequency response coupled with a very specific compression typical of magnetic recording -- a soft knee and maybe even non-linear frequency response as it goes into "clipping." That's why the volume of the presentations never seems to change during the show and that's one of the problems with converting a current, wide range recording.

There's a challenge.

Koz

OK. Here's the original...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav

And the aged version. Badly done, but all the tools are there. I can't get some of the interaction tools to work. This is still too clean.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clip ... haset5.wav

Koz

Thanks but.... I need an actuall Audacity tutorial... !? Please.....!?

Was that close enough? Koz

You'll need Chris's Compressor.
http://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss- ... -audacity/

Load the clip onto the timeline.

Effect > HiPass Filter, 200Hz, 36dB Rolloff.
Effect > LoPass Filter, 4500Hz, 36dB Rolloff

Effect > Compress Dynamics (Chris's Compressor), Compression Ratio 0.99, All other settings standard.

Effect > Compressor, Threshold -14, Floor -40, Rato 4.5:1

Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track (assuming your original is stereo)
Generate > Noise, Brown > OK

(The noise track should be selected)
Effect > Amplify, > New Peak Amplitude, -35dB

That's it. Make any top quality, uncompressed voice track into an old time recording. That's not exactly how I did it. I used the tools with more versatility but higher difficulty. I posted simpler tools that do the same thing. The two results are very, very close.

Koz