[ddots-l] Re: megaphone sound
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 03:34:50 -0400
The key to making a megaphone sound is filtering and ambience.
Megaphones are narrow band. You need very steep filters. With the Sonar EQ,
select the 2-band preset. Change the mode of band 1 to be high-pass, and band 2
to be low-pass. Set the frequency of band 1 to be about 600Hz, and band 2 to be
about 3Khz. Make sure that the cue on both bands is turned down to 0, since you
don't want to generate any resonance around the filter frequencys.
What you get at this point will sound a bit like a telephone. In the real
world, megaphones are really loud, and the sound reflects off of just about
anything. At the moment, you're hearing it dry, and that's not natural. Put
reverb on the track. Make sure that the EQ is set to be pre effects, so that
you're filtering the original signal, but not the space that the reverb is
simulating.
Now, that should sound very close. If it isn't loud enough, then turn up the
track volume, or the gain on the EQ. DOn't use the compressors to boost it, as
those use smoothing algorithms to mimic tubes and tape. Real megaphones aren't
amplified with tubes. As you crank them up, they distort in that buzzy
transistor way.
Bryan
On May 28, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Dave Hillebrandt wrote:
> I know there is a setting in one of the eq's for a telephone, so where not
> exactly the same thing, still has that pinched sound and works pretty good
> I've found.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:44 PM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: megaphone sound
>
>
>> At 10:20 AM 5/18/2011, you wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Are there any plugins for vocals that have a megaphone sounding effect in
>>> sonar?
>>
>> Try EQ plus compression and distortion. EQ is the most important of those.
>>
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