Old-Styled Walkie Talkie like Sound Effect

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Hello, everyone.First, I am new here, so I might need guidance.I am a fan of a game called Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, and I decided to mod it. Some of my units needs new voiceovers from voice actors, and some of them contributed to the mod.My question is, how do I make a Walkie-Talkie effect that is almost perfect like the game does?Here is examples of voiceovers with walkie-talkie effect that the Game use:idesmod.waviconmob.wav igisee.wav​ Here is an example of a voiceover for a unit in my mod with no filters (RAW), voiceover by https://www.georgeexley.com/ Invader - Select 1.mp3 I have tried methods, but I can't give even a similar fashion. Hoping more in this community to help me.

kind_Jubilee1e46 · Accepted Answer

Audition supports VST3/AU effects, so this is doable without leaving your session. Manual chain: bandpass EQ around 300Hz–3kHz, add some saturation/distortion for grit, layer in radio static/noise, then a limiter to glue it. If you want a shortcut, I make a plugin called LostComzz that bundles exactly this chain with presets tuned for old-radio/walkie-talkie character (disclosure: I'm the developer) — $15, works as a VST3/AU insert in Audition.

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Bob Howes · Answer

I had a similar issue for a play I was designing sound for a couple of months back. I played with lots of clicks, recorded hiss and EQ to limit the frequency range. I got it close, but...

In the end I miked up one walkie talkie in my home studio and had the voice actors stand in an adjacent room and transmit their lines from a second walkie talkie. Sometimes simple works.

If for some reason you can't do it that way, you can download radio "hiss" from a number of different sound effect web sites. Add this on top of the voices on which I used the telephone filter (under Effects/Filter and EQ/FFT Filter. From memory I played slightly with the frequencies by ear. A fraction of a second of extra loud static on each mic press can finish the job.

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