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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.wav
Here is an example of a voiceover for a unit in my mod with no filters (RAW), voiceover by https://www.georgeexley.com/
I have tried methods, but I can't give even a similar fashion. Hoping more in this community to help me.
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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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I think I prefer this method!
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/talkie-box-by-digital-brain-instruments
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Looks good but 49 Euros is a lot of Aussie dollars! Since this was the first time in memory I've needed a walkie talkie effect...
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I must admit that for a one-off, I would have either faked it up or used your method. Certainly here, you can purchase a real pair of walkie-talkies for less than the cost of that app! (And they'd probably be more useful - mine are...)
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Yeah. I have four walkie talkies that I use during set up and to talk to my backstage A2 when doing a complex show. I doubt I would have bought a pair just to create the effect but, as I had them in the cupboard...
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When I said 'less than', I hadn't looked for a while. The cheapest pair I can find now costs £1.49. No, that is not a mis-type. Downside is that the postage costs £2.49... go figure!