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vocal distorion

rugbyplaya91	Date: December 13, 2004 @ 7:14 PM Yeaaah... I'm doing this thing and i need some help.. i'm trying to go for some fuzzy distorted vocals... like some kinda program i can get? I'm not getting the sound i want, like maybe being sung through a walkie talkie would be nice... unintelligible is what i'm going for, but i don't want them to be loud and have a buzzy sound to um.. u know what i mean
boots2004	Date: December 14, 2004 @ 12:05 AM have you tried cool edit
AdamsGod	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 1:26 AM you might not want distortion.. actualy, alot of ppl mistake chorus for distortion. i use distortion on my vocals from time to time.. but to make it sound realy amazing, try chorus i think it works better
pog	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 3:25 AM I think you're trying to describe the sound of a megaphone ... you know ... the little gadgets that they use for making their voices louder when protesting One option is to buy a megaphone, but that may upset the neighbors when recording. The other way would be to emulate a megaphone with overdrive and an e.q. what you'd need to do is add a little bit of distortion/overdrive, but not too much ... only a little bit of gain should suffice... then you need to take some of the bass/lower frequencies out of the sound, also possibly boosting the mid range and treble. Hope this helps
kingo	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 7:54 AM Hey, lookie here, a subject about which I could talk intelligently, but then pog goes and steals all my thunder. I'll gabber about it anyway: 1. Get some cheap walkie talkies. They sell them in a lot of toy stores for less than 10 bucks. Or you can find them at Goodwill type places for cheap. If you're enterprising, you can rewire one of the speaker outputs in one of them to a 1/4" jack so you can run it direct into your recording gear. 2. Pog's got it exactly, as far as using software to simulate the effect. A guitar amp simulator plugin will work well to give a little distortion; but the key is the EQ stuff he mentions. Lowering the low frequencies and boosting the mid-range is what I usually do; I sometimes roll of the highest frequencies, too.
zedsalt	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 11:29 AM Zippering an eight or ten band EQ gets a really nice standing-outside-a-fiberglass-closet kinda sound. One of those toy mics that broadcast to radio paired with a tiny tranisistor radio would make for a good source of nasty distortion. I'd try the EQ at the front, miked with the toy, miking the transistor radio with a "real" mic.
imemine	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 11:35 AM Try this free plugin.http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/
imemine	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 11:35 AM http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/ One more time.
ryanwilliams	Date: December 21, 2004 @ 3:37 AM Blood!Overdrive to come in handy from time to time. :nod: " id="122092">I third http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/ This had something to do with a song of mine called [audio hifi 129623] December Boy, in fact. Additionally, I've found the VST Plugin Blood!Overdrive to come in handy from time to time.
SilverShining	Date: January 10, 2005 @ 11:13 PM Free plugins...yum.
sween	Date: January 17, 2005 @ 7:20 AM If you've got a guitar amp, easy, plug your mic through your amp and put gain up full like you would on your guitar, sorted