Voice manipulation help

[hippl5]

All I have is audacity and a free cheapo-headset skype gave away. Is there any way I can make my voice sound like that of a combine soldier? Here's an example. I'm a noob to audacity, and step by step would help.

[Kor-Rune]

Speak loudly and closely into the mic when you record so that it clips very heavily, and looks like a huge blue block instead of a waveform. Select the recording and go Effect>Amplify... and set it to like -6.5 or however quiet you want it. Then put on the high pass filter in Effects>High Pass Filter... and set that to whatever number you want, probably around 300-1300.

That's my best combine voice, but I'm not very good with audacity either :P

[hippl5]

Barely changed my voice if at all. Maybe it works for you because you sound like a combine already?

[hippl5]

Bump.

[HungarianSupermarket]

try using a vocoder VST and running the audio through it.. i dunno. lets just say whoever did the original voices wasnt using audacity:)

[SMA]

Try playing with an FFT filter and/or EQ to cut some frequencies and boost others until you get something like the sound you want. A bandpass filter might be useful to you, as well.

[Dj-Svenzo]

In the 60's they didnt have all these programs and still they could create those effects..

Improvise...improvise i tellz yah!

[spamwangler]

could be achived with a distortion

[hippl5]

I just can't do it. I'm a complete audio noob. Well, here's what I got so far with my own voice and that beep from the youtube video.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/040508/6 1900_Combinetest.mp3

[hippl5]

How would I go about adding mild static to my voice like the one in the youtube thing?

[New-Milkman]

At 5/4/08 08:14 PM, hippl5 wrote: How would I go about adding mild static to my voice like the one in the youtube thing?

"Generate > White Noise" in a brand new track just for static. Then you can de-amplify it by amplifying by a negative number, or just move the slider on the left. And because you only want a little bit of static, don't by shy on really making it quiet, just barely audible.

[hippl5]

At 5/4/08 08:22 PM, New-Milkman wrote:

At 5/4/08 08:14 PM, hippl5 wrote: How would I go about adding mild static to my voice like the one in the youtube thing?

"Generate > White Noise" in a brand new track just for static. Then you can de-amplify it by amplifying by a negative number, or just move the slider on the left. And because you only want a little bit of static, don't by shy on really making it quiet, just barely audible.

The problem with doing that, is it will play even when I make a pause before saying the next word. The combine voices have static in them only while they talk.

[New-Milkman]

At 5/4/08 08:45 PM, hippl5 wrote:

At 5/4/08 08:22 PM, New-Milkman wrote:

At 5/4/08 08:14 PM, hippl5 wrote: How would I go about adding mild static to my voice like the one in the youtube thing?

"Generate > White Noise" in a brand new track just for static. Then you can de-amplify it by amplifying by a negative number, or just move the slider on the left. And because you only want a little bit of static, don't by shy on really making it quiet, just barely audible.

The problem with doing that, is it will play even when I make a pause before saying the next word. The combine voices have static in them only while they talk.

Then if you want, you could try using the "Envelope Tool" located at the top left of the screen, and shape the wave of the static to match up with the parts when you are talking. Make it as small as you can whenever you aren't talking (of course this method will be easier if you have the white noise track under you're talking track).

[hippl5]

Like this? I'm still far from combine-like.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/040508/7 6634_Combineteststatic.mp3

[Shenkhar]

Valve just used a vocoder when they did the original voices, but another method would be to get goldwave - it has some interesting filters in it.