How to make vocal like Burzum?

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How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Haghiri75 » Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:22 pm

Greetings.

This is my first post in Audacity forums. I use Audacity in both Windows and Linux, and I need some help.
I need to make my voice like Varg Vikernes (Burzum) in this song but I really don't know which effects I need. I made some "growls" with "Change Pitch" and "Echo" effects, but I now don't need "growl".

Thanks.

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by kozikowski » Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:15 am

We get a lot of request to "make my voice sound like something else." Most of them fail. This one appears to be just heavily overloaded with tons of guitars, other instruments and drums overlayed. If the problem is your voice is the wrong pitch, then you can try Effect > Change Pitch and then cover it with other sounds.

If your voice sounds wrong when you change the pitch, that's the best we can do.

You can simulate overload with multiple applications of Effect > Leveler at highest setting.

Most of the rest of the vocal is acting. We really don't have a filter for that.

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Trebor » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:00 am

If you are aiming for the hoarse death-metal voice, e.g. https://youtu.be/DPyOhP1GTRQ?t=5m52s
save your larynx by vocoding the vocal with [pink] noise ...
Dubya , before-After vocoding with pink-noise.wav
(1.01 MiB) Downloaded 324 times
I used the mda talkbox high-resolution vocoder VST plugin , rather than Audacity's native vocoder.

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Haghiri75 » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:48 am

Trebor wrote:If you are aiming for the hoarse death-metal voice, e.g. https://youtu.be/DPyOhP1GTRQ?t=5m52s
save your larynx by vocoding the vocal with [pink] noise ...
Dubya , before-After vocoding with pink-noise.wav
I used the mda talkbox high-resolution vocoder VST plugin , rather than Audacity's native vocoder.
Thanks, it helped me a lot.
Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Trebor » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:08 pm

Haghiri75 wrote:Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?
Adjust to taste. I used 100% wet, but death-metal is not my thing, so you may prefer different settings.

BTW applying Audacity's "Leveller" on "heaviest" [ -20dB threshold ] makes it louder and more distorted ...

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Haghiri75 » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:18 pm

Trebor wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?
Adjust to taste. I used 100% wet, but death-metal is not my thing, so you may prefer different settings.

BTW applying Audacity's "Leveller" on "heaviest" [ -20dB threshold ] makes it louder and more distorted ...
before-after, Audacity's Leveller on Heaviest -20dB.wav
Is this plugin available for Linux, too?

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:25 pm

Haghiri75 wrote:
Trebor wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?
Adjust to taste. I used 100% wet, but death-metal is not my thing, so you may prefer different settings.

BTW applying Audacity's "Leveller" on "heaviest" [ -20dB threshold ] makes it louder and more distorted ...
before-after, Audacity's Leveller on Heaviest -20dB.wav
Is this plugin available for Linux, too?
Leveler is shipped with Audacity. Look in the Effect Menu (you may have to open the menu items that only have numbers).


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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Haghiri75 » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:32 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:
Trebor wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?
Adjust to taste. I used 100% wet, but death-metal is not my thing, so you may prefer different settings.

BTW applying Audacity's "Leveller" on "heaviest" [ -20dB threshold ] makes it louder and more distorted ...
before-after, Audacity's Leveller on Heaviest -20dB.wav
Is this plugin available for Linux, too?
Leveler is shipped with Audacity. Look in the Effect Menu (you may have to open the menu items that only have numbers).


Gale
Oh, I meant "Talkbox" :)

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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:19 pm

Haghiri75 wrote:
Gale Andrews wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:
Trebor wrote:
Haghiri75 wrote:Another question, which percentage of "Wet' and "Dry" is efficient for this type of vocals?
Adjust to taste. I used 100% wet, but death-metal is not my thing, so you may prefer different settings.

BTW applying Audacity's "Leveller" on "heaviest" [ -20dB threshold ] makes it louder and more distorted ...
before-after, Audacity's Leveller on Heaviest -20dB.wav
Is this plugin available for Linux, too?
Leveler is shipped with Audacity. Look in the Effect Menu (you may have to open the menu items that only have numbers).


Gale
Oh, I meant "Talkbox" :)
Using your favourite search engine will bring you to a VST for Linux port of mda on http://www.linux-vst.com/. However you will need Audacity 2.1.0 to run VST's in Audacity on Linux.

If you are happy to compile plugins, there is also an LV2 port https://github.com/portalmod/mda-lv2. LV2 should work in earlier versions of Audacity on Linux.


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Re: How to make vocal like Burzum?

Post by Haghiri75 » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:53 am

Thanks a lot. I now have problems with VST plugin installation in Linux. Do I need a VSTPATH ?

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