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4th February 2008
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| Gear addict Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chicago
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Thread Starter | Monster truck spot VO effect chain I'm totally serious when I say I am stumped on how to put together a plug in effect chain to simulate a "monster truck" voiceover spot.... it's more of a parody, in a demo, so it doesn't need to sound exactly exactly, just something of the general flavor of what the voiceover would sound like in that particular type of spot.... I'm thinking gobs of reverb and delay, but other than that....I'm stumped.... any suggestions? |
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4th February 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Granada Hills
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5th February 2008
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| Gear addict Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chicago
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Thread Starter | somehow I knew I would get a response like this.. yes, I have tried it.......I'm not sure what I'm shooting for,or what it's supposed to sound like.........that's the reason for the post.... |
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5th February 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Central Point, Oregon
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Give it a healthy dose of slappy delay, somewhere between 90 and 120 ms with a little feedback. If you use any reverb, go dark and avoid anything long as it will wash out the articulation and punch---but you can use spots of long reverb at the ends of phrases if they ring out into a sound effect or something. Finally, you can add a little chorus or phasing (a microtuned pitch shifter works well too), but if it's going on radio or TV be very careful with anything stereo as modulation effects can destroy the size and depth when squashed to mono. | |
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5th February 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Belgrade, Serbia
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| i was in desperate search for that exact 'effect chain' for years, until i recorded a top talent, and realized i just need compression - he does the rest  |
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5th February 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Carolina Guy
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| I would suggest automating the delay to kick in only at the end of sentences. "This Sunday (sunday) (Sunday)....." vs. "This (this) Sun(this)day (thiSusthisnDthSunAY)"  |
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5th February 2008
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2007
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| I just did this for a spot this morning ironically enough. Same notes as above...agressive read...maybe pitch down and stretch the keywords, adding some delay as well. This was for a scratch VO. I'm trying desperately to find an actual monstertruck VO guy but have had zero luck. In Georgia, there is a very particular voice used but there seems to be some secrecy around it. Anybody know good monstertruck talent?? |
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5th February 2008
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| Thinking of using Peter Cullen, but wanted to go more authentic monstertruck. I'll check out voice123. Thanks! |
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5th February 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: St. Louis, MO
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Classic! Love it. | |
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5th February 2008
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Holy obtuse never-ending delay, Batman. That was funny. |
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6th February 2008
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| Gear addict Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chicago
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Thread Starter | Here's my dilemna... the spot is actual for Jello....we've decided to have a girl (housewife) talking about a dessert in "monster truck style".... so here's what I have so far.... Logic Channel EQ .. hi pass @ 30hz, +5db bump @ 5k Waves Ren Comp .. 7 db gain, 4:1 rate , threshold -17 Wave L1..vo broadcast preset Logic Tape Delay.... 10% feedback, 110ms delay, mix 50% Logic Space Designer reverb...vocal ambience preset, short, mix 50% Logic Chorus...glimmering chorus preset...15% mix, 9% intensity PSP Vintage Warmer/master buss...heavy mulitband limiter/compressor there's one spot to let the phrase ring out at the end, and I increased the reverb to almost 100% mix to let it ring... would attach a sample but Gearslutz isn't cooperating with the upload feature |
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6th February 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Granada Hills
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Let's just say, there were no such things as plugins then!! If you guys want the real thing, contact Larry Huffman. larryhuffman.com | |
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6th February 2008
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Yes I would.....but I don't think anyone would want them.... | |
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6th February 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Carolina Guy
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| I'm guessing Captain's biggest problem is that he has a girl and not Larry Huffman. Perhaps you could use Larry's voice over the image of the girl talking..... now that would be funny. |
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6th February 2008
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Thread Starter | yes, it would be funny....except it's radio...no visuals.... |
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11th February 2008
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| Personal opinion for VO talent who can do this from their own personal studio. Rich Orlow Chris Sabat I prefer Rich, but I've known him for years and Chris has his own studio and is usually pretty busy for smaller bookings (the guy does full anime series, video games, etc.), whereas Rich has a studio solely for his personal usage. |
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20th February 2008
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| Just to follow up. We ended up finding the real guy, who lives in Wisconsin. The man practically mixes himself. |
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