Old-Styled Walkie Talkie like Sound Effect

[deathreaperz]

Hello, everyone.

First, I am new here, so I might need guidance.
I am a fan of a game called Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, and I decided to mod it. Some of my units needs new voiceovers from voice actors, and some of them contributed to the mod.

My question is, how do I make a Walkie-Talkie effect that is almost perfect like the game does?
Here is examples of voiceovers with walkie-talkie effect that the Game use:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/snplcd9v8ss79 ... d.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cs8r7b83ot4z ... b.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/25yv0ta0chuxr ... e.wav?dl=0

Here is an example of a voiceover for a unit in my mod with no filters (RAW), voiceover by https://www.georgeexley.com/
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvhyxhs983hqe ... 1.mp3?dl=0

I have tried methods, but I can't give even a similar fashion. Hoping more in this community to help me.

[waxcylinder]

Try the Audacity Distortion effect

1) Select your audio
2) Effect > Distortion
3) click the Manage button
4) choose Factory Presets
5) choose Walkie-Talkie
6) use the Apply button (or preview first with the Start Playback button)

and note that other distortion presets are available

WC

[deathreaperz]

Thanks for replying.

The result seems promising, but yet it's sharpy. How do I make reduce it's sharpness?

[waxcylinder]

after loading the Walkie-talkie preset you can then tweak the controls.

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/distortion.html

I can't give you any advice on how to unsharpen it - I'm no expert with this effect

WC

[steve]

There's also this "Tannoy" effect which may be suitable with appropriate settings: viewtopic.php?p=325922#p325922
(Requires Audacity 2.1.3 or later)