Making dialogue sound like radio-chatter
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mcshyd
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you can achieve this with an eq. if you have a 4 channel eq, you want to drop out all the bass frequency and some of the high. mess around with it, you'll be able to tell when your'e going in the right direction. for the radio noises, i'd go here http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ look around for what you need, and add it as a second sound layer. get some 1 second static clips to ass the beginning and end of each piece of dialogue, and you should be aces.
glenn chan
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When you drop the EQ, you can increase the Q setting to make the cutoff sharper. That'll sound a little bit closer.
Also try the track compressor to squash the sound a little.
Amount = ~6.0
Theshold = drop this until you hear the volume decrease
Attack = about 25ms or so.
Smooth saturation on
Use the gain setting to raise the volume back up.
Hope that helps.
Also try the track compressor to squash the sound a little.
Amount = ~6.0
Theshold = drop this until you hear the volume decrease
Attack = about 25ms or so.
Smooth saturation on
Use the gain setting to raise the volume back up.
Hope that helps.
bfischinger
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This might be a stupid idea. But, you could brodcast the audio file with one of those FM trasmitters and purposly make it sound staticty<--? then, record it back into your computer through a stereo jack. this might be a really round-about way of doing it, but I think I would work. I also have some good static noise loops I've used that I could send you to put over the audio.
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Ian Slessor
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This may not be relevant to you, Miniman, but I was putting together a retirement video for a town employee and I had to have police communications coming across the police cruiser radio.
I voiced the communications (it is my full-time job after all) in my home office using one of those cheap computer mics and then pulled the audio into SoundForge.
I then played with it as suggested by others, dropping the low end with the EQ and then put it through a "phone line" effect.
Worked great.
Thin, tinny audio that, if you want, you can add a layer of static and play with the volume of the audio to fade in and out with that static.
However if all you have is Vegas then what others have suggested should work fairly well, too.
sincerely,
ian
I voiced the communications (it is my full-time job after all) in my home office using one of those cheap computer mics and then pulled the audio into SoundForge.
I then played with it as suggested by others, dropping the low end with the EQ and then put it through a "phone line" effect.
Worked great.
Thin, tinny audio that, if you want, you can add a layer of static and play with the volume of the audio to fade in and out with that static.
However if all you have is Vegas then what others have suggested should work fairly well, too.
sincerely,
ian
I know this thread is very old, but as it seems to hit high on Google search, I think its important to improve on the responses to the question for future archiving.
I've personally had a lot of success by recording the audio I'm after from a CB Radio through a low quality microphone.
I found this method works best if you record at a distance of about 1 1/2 feet away from the microphone using a hand held radio turned up to maximum volume.
Distortion is your friend. Police radios are commonly turned up incredibly loud and distort the sounds they produce. It makes for a great effect when you record this way, and when done right, requires very little post editing.
Here is something I threw together in a few minutes. I apologize for the background noise, but you get the idea. Basic chatter with a simulated Selcall tone preceding the transmission and a double beep roger tone at the end.
Radio Communication Test
I've personally had a lot of success by recording the audio I'm after from a CB Radio through a low quality microphone.
I found this method works best if you record at a distance of about 1 1/2 feet away from the microphone using a hand held radio turned up to maximum volume.
Distortion is your friend. Police radios are commonly turned up incredibly loud and distort the sounds they produce. It makes for a great effect when you record this way, and when done right, requires very little post editing.
Here is something I threw together in a few minutes. I apologize for the background noise, but you get the idea. Basic chatter with a simulated Selcall tone preceding the transmission and a double beep roger tone at the end.
Radio Communication Test
Doing things practically often produces better results than doing them digitally in post, sure.
ARI_SodenBerg
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Im a Lic radio Operator - If you want to send me an MP3 file...I can send the audio , to my 2 way radios ....capture it on the other end , and send you back the audio , only transmitted on my radios and re did the MP3 .
roger@fm106.ca
roger@fm106.ca