MindTheGap
438 posts
Apr 29, 2014
4:13 AM
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Does anyone use filters, parametric EQ or graphic EQ to change the voice of a mic? I mean not just adding bass, cutting treble etc. but adding colour to a clean vocal mic. Or using a lo-pass filter to give it the 'telephone handset' treatment?
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Martin
662 posts
Apr 29, 2014
4:43 AM
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A Boss parametric EQ is occasionally used by me when playing clean, with the volume knob (or is it called "level?), just a small step past 12 o´clock. That adds an almost indiscernible distortion to the sound that -- perhaps a bit paradoxically -- increases warmth.
The difference is not indiscernible, that´s not what I mean, but the distortion is; the difference is obvious from a non EQ-ed sound.
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MindTheGap
439 posts
Apr 29, 2014
4:53 AM
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Martin, thanks. That sounds like a subtle tweak to improve warmth. I was thinking more radical e.g. taking out everything above 3kHz. Or putting a great big response hump in the mid-range. Something like that.
Last Edited by MindTheGap on Apr 29, 2014 4:54 AM
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Greg Heumann
2697 posts
Apr 29, 2014
1:14 PM
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There are no rules. If you like the idea, try it!
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MindTheGap
440 posts
Apr 29, 2014
2:24 PM
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Greg, well it seemed an obvious thing to do, but I'd not read of anyone doing it.
I've tried a re-amping exercise using the very configurable eq filter in Audacity and it does seem to give a interesting result with just a flat band-pass filter between 40Hz and 2-ish kHz. I feel a bespoke pedal coming on.
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Komuso
303 posts
Apr 29, 2014
7:01 PM
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If you are software based try Voxengo Voxformer
One of the presets is the old telephone effect.
Sound examples on http://www.voxengo.com/product/voxformer/sound-examples/
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Last Edited by Komuso on Apr 29, 2014 7:05 PM
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