Looking for Radio simulation plugin

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:18 am

Hi

I'm looking for some kind of plugin that can simulate an old radio sound (voice, music), or a way to do this with existung eqs, etc.

Can anyone pls. enlighten me?

thanks

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:42 am

Start by taking out everything below 400Hz, and then reducing everything above 2Khz. Then, if you have the option, make a narrow bandwidth notch of about +4-6db at 500Hz.

If you've got a good compressor, add it as well. You want to start compressing early, at around -20db, with a ratio of at least 4:1.

That will sort of give you a telephone effect, raise the threshold of the compressor (or remove it altogether) for more of an AM radio effect.

I don't think you need to buy anything special for this. In fact, this may be an ideal job for the humblest of DPs bundled MAS plugins.

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:49 am

Thanks for your input - I did try the "telephone" setting in the MOTU eq, which was pretty close, but I'll incorporate your ideas with the freq and compressor, which should get it closer

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:55 am

frodos suggestions are great! you could even add a little distortion for the broken speaker effect, and add some noises to simulate bad radio reception - perhaps you can get something out of motus sonic modulator combined with the pattern gate and blend it to the original signal... experiment!

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:23 am

RAY GUN will do that

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:46 am

Timeline wrote:RAY GUN will do that

thanks- I bought Ray Gun a few years back (in the good ole days of OS9), and never jumped it up to OSX - just checking to see if I could upgrade, and the Arboretum site is down (gone?) - if anyone has an installer version of ray gun 1.6, let me know.

Jens · Post by **Jens** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:27 am

HI Jlaudon,
good way to try by yourself.Also you would find a lot of Speaker simulations
at altiverb app.

Jens

KarlSutton · Post by **KarlSutton** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:40 am

this may sound too obvious, but run the audio out through a small speaker & record it back

or try an amp simulator plugin

part of the effect in addition to the narrow bandwidth is the speaker sound

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:54 am

You could also record the real thing. Set up a radio in a room with a stereo pair of mics, and tune it between stations on the AM setting just to get the sound. Mix that in under your dialog.

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:36 am

Best way would be to search with your usual eq and disto plugins, and ad noises and hum.
But if you are looking for a good result in short time you could take a look at Izotp Vinyl (it's free)
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/
Very easy to set and rather convincing IMHO

Dwetmaster · Post by **Dwetmaster** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:37 am

If you want to stay inside DP, the preamp plug in has a setting you could start to experiment with.

martian · Post by **martian** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:18 pm

load sample into reason...NNXT

map any knobs and faders you might have to a scream distortion unit....

the u tweak the 3 band eq setting with a couple of fingers

whislt another is randomly fiddlin with distortion type as loops it around endless;y -record all of these into DP... splice togther the best bits!

and there's always the resonance and cutoff filter... notchus gracias!!

I guess this sorta copies most of the above mentioned -tho generally I'd listen to any one who has hairy feet and are reknown for sitting around smoking pipes!!!

( the pipe finally makes use of the 3gig macpro I just bought,,,, an ashtray holder!!!!)

David Polich · Post by **David Polich** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:32 pm

This is what you want:

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Speakerp ... phone.html