''Radio'' effect on vocals

[Mound of Sound]

Trey uses a megaphone live for 'Fee'. Trust him - he's a jedi.

 

[makkE]

Or use walkie-talkies

 

[foq1978]

Tom waits via megaphone (starts around 0:50) -
YouTube - ‪Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus‬‏

Mark Sandman via microphone
YouTube - ‪Morphine - You speak my language‬‏

 

[groooooove]

megaphone

or a "megaphone" preset from garageband or whatever. just set a bass reducer and some distortion.

 

[foq1978]

Also, for live performance, the BOSS VE-20 pedal

 

[iiipopes]

"Video killed the radio star...."

Sorry, couldn't resist - showing my age.

There is no single "radio" voice. What most people think of as "radio voice" is either AM broadcast, with the bandpass filter on the transmitter to prevent overmodulation, and cut off the audio signal at @100 Hz on the low end and @ 3500 Hz on the high end;

The other is the natural bandpass of a crystal microphone, like the green bullet mentioned above. The telephone company also cuts off everything below @ 200 Hz for clarity of transmission.

What you won't necessarily get, especially with the "AM - broadcast" type sound is the natural phasing of the actual broadcast wave bouncing off the ionosphere. You might need a little bit of processing for that.

(Sorry -- I worked in a radio station as a teenager in the last years when a DJ actually also had to take the technical exam and get an FCC license to babysit the control board.)

 

[T J James]

Old thread - sorry to resurrect it. Sure there are still loads of people out there looking for a hardware solution to the radio/telephone vocal sound.

We've got a couple of the Link Removed in the studio and they are perfect for this.