X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

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X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Rickenbacker » Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:50 am

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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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by steve » Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:42 pm

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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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Trebor » Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:30 pm

Rickenbacker wrote:
Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:50 am
I'm looking to reproduce that warbly, distorted radio sound you hear when the X-Wing fighter pilots speak on their radios.
viewtopic.php?p=362567#p362567

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Rickenbacker » Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:37 am

Trebor wrote:
Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:30 pm
Rickenbacker wrote:
Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:50 am
I'm looking to reproduce that warbly, distorted radio sound you hear when the X-Wing fighter pilots speak on their radios.
viewtopic.php?p=362567#p362567
I got lost after following the link & clicking on the download.

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Rickenbacker » Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:51 am

This is EXACTLY what I'm shooting for!

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

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Trebor » Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:58 am

Rickenbacker wrote:
Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:37 am
I got lost after following the link & clicking on the download.
Copy & paste the code into Nyquist prompt ...

X-fighter-ish code in Audcaity's Nyquist Prompt.png
X-fighter-ish code in Audcaity's Nyquist Prompt.png (15.96 KiB) Viewed 445 times
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).

Rickenbacker wrote:
Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:51 am
This is EXACTLY what I'm shooting for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ad84BMo_gQ
Then you'll need to perfect an Australian accent :)

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Rickenbacker » Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:21 am

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

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Trebor » Tue Nov 19, 2019 4:11 am

Rickenbacker wrote:
Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:21 am
Argg! Tried that (with both codes) & just got a message- "Nyquist returned nil audio"
I think that translates as: you didn't select the audio you wish the code to be applied to ...

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Re: X-Wing fighter radio vocal effect?

Post by Rickenbacker » Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:04 pm

Trebor wrote:
Tue Nov 19, 2019 4:11 am


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

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https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... ction.html
Womp wooomp! Thanks! :)

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