I wonder how to make an "old radio" effect wih audiomulch, so the output is like from 1920's -1940's radios, with the simplest method (not too much pipeline if possible).
add noise to the signal at a low level with the test gen (run it through an eq to get the right "flavour"), then use another eq as a bandpass filter on the whole file, so that everything below aboput 350 hz and everything above about 4500 Hz are cut out. should get you most of the way there. could also add glitchy static with one of the granular processors, and heterodyning automated sine waves with test gens and ringmods for further authenticity. run all that into some kind of tube saturator plugin (or the built in waveshaper) for distortion, and bob's your uncle (and actually, he is mine...)
The whole thing u said, can u show it actually in a screenshot, or at least tell me what excactly to do?
I have no idea about staff like "heterodyning automated sine waves with test gens and ringmods"..
I have posted before, asking for details from Bbaluma, but my post was for checking and untill now it hadn't posted. But befor this post, I have used only the SparaEQ, cut off above 5000hz and below 150hz and it gives a nice "old-radio" effect.
Ross, I have tested yours, but it "chokes" the sound too much. But it has nice noice, so one can experiment on this! Thanx guys for your support!
PS Ross, check out the older post of mine about the latency..
@vampm: sorry I forgot to check the moderation queue until now...
"but it "chokes" the sound too much."
Probably it's my extensive use of harmonic #2 in the shapers to get the zero-clipping effect. In any case I wasn't going for a subtle effect -- without it was sounding way too hi-fi, the EQ is not enough to evoke the 1920s... to my ears at least :0
There is (or was) a VST plugin - RRadioAM v1.1 - that produced some fairly authentic short wave radio type sounds. Its described in the link below but the download link there doesn't work. I don't know if its obtainable anywhere else.
Someone named Steve Harris did a plug-in, in a format called LASDPA, called VyNil that gives sound a recorded-on-vinyl/shellac disk effect. You can adjust parameters like crackle, RPM, wear, and surface warping, and one called "year," which ranges from 1900 to 1990. I think that's mainly a bandpass filter. And so, perhaps one could build a similar control for this radio effect, assuming one has an idea of what old radio actually sounded like.
(One of the great disappointments of my life, especially as a father with a son, is the demise of shortwave broadcasting, killed off by the Net, pretty much. Technology giveth, and technology taketh away.)
add noise to the signal at a low level with the test gen (run it through an eq to get the right "flavour"), then use another eq as a bandpass filter on the whole file, so that everything below aboput 350 hz and everything above about 4500 Hz are cut out. should get you most of the way there. could also add glitchy static with one of the granular processors, and heterodyning automated sine waves with test gens and ringmods for further authenticity. run all that into some kind of tube saturator plugin (or the built in waveshaper) for distortion, and bob's your uncle (and actually, he is mine...)
The whole thing u said, can u show it actually in a screenshot, or at least tell me what excactly to do?
I have no idea about staff like "heterodyning automated sine waves with test gens and ringmods"..
Hi vampm, I've made something for you to try:
http://www.audiomulch.com/people/ross-b/patches/old-radio-voice-techniques
I have posted before, asking for details from Bbaluma, but my post was for checking and untill now it hadn't posted. But befor this post, I have used only the SparaEQ, cut off above 5000hz and below 150hz and it gives a nice "old-radio" effect.
Ross, I have tested yours, but it "chokes" the sound too much. But it has nice noice, so one can experiment on this! Thanx guys for your support!
PS Ross, check out the older post of mine about the latency..
Very cool patch Ross! You should post some more in the paych area.
ah, you beat me to it ross!
@vampm: sorry I forgot to check the moderation queue until now...
"but it "chokes" the sound too much."
Probably it's my extensive use of harmonic #2 in the shapers to get the zero-clipping effect. In any case I wasn't going for a subtle effect -- without it was sounding way too hi-fi, the EQ is not enough to evoke the 1920s... to my ears at least :0
There is (or was) a VST plugin - RRadioAM v1.1 - that produced some fairly authentic short wave radio type sounds. Its described in the link below but the download link there doesn't work. I don't know if its obtainable anywhere else.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/archive/effects/2003-09/26166.php
Someone named Steve Harris did a plug-in, in a format called LASDPA, called VyNil that gives sound a recorded-on-vinyl/shellac disk effect. You can adjust parameters like crackle, RPM, wear, and surface warping, and one called "year," which ranges from 1900 to 1990. I think that's mainly a bandpass filter. And so, perhaps one could build a similar control for this radio effect, assuming one has an idea of what old radio actually sounded like.
(One of the great disappointments of my life, especially as a father with a son, is the demise of shortwave broadcasting, killed off by the Net, pretty much. Technology giveth, and technology taketh away.)
Found it: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-01daac07.html
RRadioAM v1.1
Don't click on download now, seems to bring you to some crap site and don't se the download manager
Found this thread also with other vsts but I didn't check'em out. http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/printview.php?t=344712&start=0
Sometimes i record something from this nice police scanner free app , you can get some nice click, noise and hiss but even voice
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36860/iscan