Program/Plugin for vocal effects and/or distorions

[Chazperx]

Hi:

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for software of plugins that created vocal effects or voice distortions. I have heard some effects in rap songs and also in death metal, and I am trying to recreate certian effects. I'm sure I can play around with traditional effects, but was wondering if anyone knew of any other programs/plugins that would accomplish the same thing.

I was particularly interested in an effect that allowed me to create a kind of realtime vocal that sounded like slow motion.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Chaz

[David Polich]

You can use DP's own guitar effects (Custom 59 amp, Live Room G,
Tube Wailer, RXT Distortion, etc.) to distort/ overdrive vocals.
Just place the effects on an insert for your vocal track and
experiment.

To create the "slow motion" vocal, what you're referring to, I
believe, is a vocal that has been pitch shifted way down. You
can do that as well with DP - highlight any portion of a vocaltrack,
and use "Spectral Effects" to re-tune the pitch of the vocal down
an octave or more. Or you can do it even more easily by selecting
the audio, then using "Transpose" (Command Key+9) and shifting the
audio down. It will create a lot of artifacts but pitch shifting
vocals that far down always does anyway.

[philbrown]

Hi:

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for software of plugins that created vocal effects or voice distortions. I have heard some effects in rap songs and also in death metal, and I am trying to recreate certian effects.

A friend of mine swears by this: http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Speakerp ... phone.html but I've never used it. It may or may not be exactly what you're looking for. If you're mainly after distortion, I agree with David try out whatever guitar effects you have handy including hardware pedals and guitar-rack software like Guitar Rig etc. Do you have a (real, not virtual!) guitar amp that can be overdriven? You'd basically "Reamp" your tracks through that and back into DP. If it were me, I would use my modular synth wavefolders and overdrive the filters for these kinds of sounds and I know other guys that use bit-crusher type modules for this stuff too. There are lots of distortion qualities and it's somewhat genre-dependent as to the types of distortion used. Also a combination of filters and distortion might get you what you're looking for, like try severely band-pass filtering (or EQ'ing) a track and then running through a DP virtual guitar pedal, for example. There are some cool filter plug-ins out there but I can't suggest any as I use analog for that stuff.

[funkyfreddy]

You can get great vocal fx using sooperlooper, get crazy half speed, fast speed, reverse fx, etc.

http://sonosaurus.com/sooperlooper/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I often play around with it when looking for "out of the box" type stuff, then print the fx I like to an audio track.....

[Phil O]

...some effects in rap...

Well, there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3aL4NX2lzc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Phil

[newrigel]

For the filtered distorted trendy sound... speakerphone is hard to beat. There's also Ozone Trash. How about bit crushing too?