That cool ghost-like voice, how?

[Pyrowman]

Explaining this will be hard. Especially when your English is pretty...ehm...crap...

I've been looking for it everywhere, but I can't find it! How the hell do they make that spooky invert-echo-like sound effect? It's mostly used on with voice-acting...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? Fortunately, I can give an example: In 'Charlie the Unicorn 2', when those 2 other unicorns are in the 'vortex' on Charlie's back, you can hear the effect when they speak. Another example: In the song 'Trust' on the Limp Bizkit album called 'Significant Other', while the song goes 'I got a little bitty question...'.

I tried reversing a sample, then adding an echo and reversing it again, but it didn't work.
Can anyone please tell me how to get this effect?

I'm off to bed now (it's called sleep, it's better than coffee) so I'll reply tomorrow.

Thanks in advance (or whatever you english-speaking people call it)

[SleepyFox]

Vocoder

[Shenkhar]

Convolution Reverb, not vocoder. You'll have to do a google search to find a vst that will do that.

[xKore]

At 5/29/08 06:53 PM, Shenkhar wrote: Convolution Reverb, not vocoder. You'll have to do a google search to find a vst that will do that.

Lol not convolution reverb either. I think he's talking about preverb. Like reverb that leads into the speech. To do that you just record the reverb of the word, reverse it and place it infront. At least I think that's what your talking about..

[xKore]

At 5/29/08 07:01 PM, xKore wrote:

At 5/29/08 06:53 PM, Shenkhar wrote: Convolution Reverb, not vocoder. You'll have to do a google search to find a vst that will do that.

Lol not convolution reverb either. I think he's talking about preverb. Like reverb that leads into the speech. To do that you just record the reverb of the word, reverse it and place it infront. At least I think that's what your talking about..

Agh I didn't read the whole of your post. You could try getting the sound wave, slicing a small part from each word and the retrigger them and automate the volume to lead into it. Uh, reading over that seemed a little comlicated, hope you understand..

[Nintechno]

At 5/29/08 07:01 PM, xKore wrote: Lol not convolution reverb either. I think he's talking about preverb. Like reverb that leads into the speech. To do that you just record the reverb of the word, reverse it and place it infront. At least I think that's what your talking about..

No, its acually postverb XD

[pr0de]

just tweak the echo options and use two "vocal channels"

[pr0de]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_ech o

[Pyrowman]

Ik know my reply is a bit late, I haven't been able to reply earlier.
Anyway, thanks for the advice, I almost got it! It was indeed putting the sample in reverse, adding a echo (but with a very short delay and high feedback) and turn it back again. Thanks for the link Pr0de, that was exactly what I was talking about!

Oh, by the way, the Red Hot Chili Peppers used the reverse echo effect too, in their song called 'Strip My Mind'

[Rig]

What you have to do is run the vocals through a reverb unit, and set it so that the 'wet' sound is heard about half a second before the 'dry' sound.

[Pyrowman]

At 6/2/08 01:05 PM, Rig wrote: What you have to do is run the vocals through a reverb unit, and set it so that the 'wet' sound is heard about half a second before the 'dry' sound.

Wow, such a coincidence! I just found that out too! Well kinda, I'm not really into the audio editting talk like you guys... I've added a reverb effect with the mixer panel in FL, this works wonderfull! But that 'wet' and 'dry' layers, that I am going to try next.

Thanks Rig!

[Cryoma]

Rig is just so adorable the way he answers questions 10x better than I ever could.
:3

[ClockHass]

Aww.. you already learned how to do it. =/ I was going to come in and be your shining knight on a white stallion but you ruined the fun. It was a pretty simple technique to figure out though, considering it's called reverse echo. Makes sense to reverse then add an echo.