sound design question

[doc83]

im trying to acheive the "telephone" sound for a dialogue track. what is the best way to replicate the muffled, scratchy sound of someone talking over a telephone?

if it comes down to it, i would be willing to just record the person speaking through a telephone, but what would be the best possible way to record that?

 

[Jeremy Ordan]

My personal 'secret' method of getting this done. Record what you want and import the audio into Sound Forge. Then open the effects and apply the 'chorus-cheap tv' setting. Adjust until you are content, but it perfectly replicates the telephone thinness you are looking for. Works like a gem everytime.

 

[Barry_S]

Telephones have a very limited bandwidth--maybe 3 kHz or so, ranging from about 400 Hz to 3.4 kHz. Use your equalizer to roll off everything below 400 Hz and above 3.4 kHz. That's usually a good start, and you can play with the cut offs until it sounds good (or bad) to you.

 

[Dave_Fisk]

Telephones have a very limited bandwidth--maybe 3 kHz or so, ranging from about 400 Hz to 3.4 kHz. Use your equalizer to roll off everything below 400 Hz and above 3.4 kHz. That's usually a good start, and you can play with the cut offs until it sounds good (or bad) to you.

What he said.

I have a "phone" filter in my waves gold bundle that I use.

-Dave

 

[doc83]

thanks guys, i will give it a go.

 

[Streckfus]

What NLE are you using? Vegas has a Telephone present in one of the EQ plugins...I believe it's the Graphic EQ plug-in. That's probably the easiest route as you can take care of the effect directly in the timeline without having to render a separate audio file.