Recreating specific audio effect?

[stevenp15666665]

I am doing a cover of a song and I'm trying to identify how to recreate the effect.

I am specifically looking at 0:15-0:47.

Childish Gambino - Heartbeat DIRTY - YouTube

Do you guys know what's causing that effect? Besides maybe lowpass filter?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

That's a repeat echo (not reverb) where the feed to it has a bass cut. If there's any reverb at all, it has been added to the entire effect after processing. Mostly it's the first repeat that you can hear, but there is definitely more than one in the loop

You should be able to set this up in Audition without too much difficulty, although it's going to require a bit of experimenting to get it right, I expect. To get the repeat rate right is going to be entirely dependent on the tempo you do the song at - get that wrong and it will sound rather weird...

[stevenp15666665]

Ok great yeah I think I got it worked out mostly. Any thoughts on what the rest of the vocals may have in terms of effects?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Mostly it's the undistorted version of a telephone effect - loads of bass rolled off, and the HF cut off at 5-6kHz - something like that, anyway - which stops it sounding 'crisp'. I think (although I'm not absolutely sure) that in the chorus, reverb has been added to the original echo, but that the overall repeat level has been dropped.

[punkr888]

Multiband compressor > presets > walkie talkie and then add delay