electronic voice change??

[Ben Sliker]

I can only give examples of where I've heard it, hopefully someone will be kind enough to investigate for me.

Example 1: The Matrix - when neo is being unplugged and that silver stuff goes down his throat as he screams.

Example 2: Hawthorne Heights - Where do I stab myself in the ears (legion of doom remix) - Underworld Evolution soundtrack - at approximately 1:38-1:40

Does anyone know how to do this? Or can point me at a program (for mac) or plug-in that would accomplish this as well.

I'd really like to pull off a transition between a scream to an electronic scream. Thx.

 

[Jeremy Ordan]

In The Matrix I am sure that they used a vocoder. This is where you get the robot type voice. Essentially it is a piece of rackmount gear that is used in studio situations that combines a voice with the characteristics of a synth. There are a lot of different options when it comes to vocoders and there are even some soft synth plugins that will handle it (specifically VST Inst.).

There are a couple of other options that you can look into, but I would recommend investing into Wavelab (I believe this is available for mac). This is similar to Sound Forge for the PC which is a complete Wav / Audio editor. Protools has some interesting features that could also work for you.

It sounds like you are looking for something combining pitch, time stretch, reverb (something metalic) and some sort of flange effect to give it a riding feel.

More than anything else it comes down to playing around and seeing what you come up with.

-Jeremy

 

[Ben Sliker]

awesome ... that sets me on a way better path than searching "voice plugins" on google

Thanks Jeremy

 

[Noiz2]

I got curious and listened to the Matrix bit. I think it was probably done with some pitch shifting and poss bit reducing then run through something like GRM tools to pick up on the harmonics. That graininess that is in the voice is something you get when you slow digital recordings down a lot. Just a guess. Vocoders might get you the same effect but there aren't too many vocoder plugins around and most folks don't use too many boxes anymore. Well the smart ones are buying them up cheap on eBay.... But probably 80% of the FX work is done today with plugins and vocoders take a fair amount of work to get what you want out of them so my bet is on a little manipulation and a few plugins. On the mix stage its probably 95% boxes but this kind of SFX is designed in the edit room. Also there were probably 10 -20 tracks for that effect. It is VERY rare to have A sound, it's always layers. So one track might be original voice, and one a bit damaged version, and one some resonant filter stuff, and a bunch more for sections of the transition, a little low end thing here and a swoosh bit for as you go down the throat etc. A typical punch (in an action film) for instance has four tracks. A high , mid and low plus a whoosh.

SK