Q: How to get that "megaphone" vocal sound?

[kramerica]

Any ideas on how to get that vocal megaphone sound without actually using a megaphone? Flaming Lips uses an actual megaphone alot but I'm wondering what would be good for home recording (i.e. effects chain).

[bosonHavoc]

of the top of my head i would say try filtering, distortion and reverb.

[beats me]

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

Watch the videos and you'll crap your pants.

[kramerica]

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

Watch the videos and you'll crap your pants.

Pants shat.

[bosonHavoc]

i just tried an eq 3 kill the lows boost the mids cut the highs
into an over drive.. play with it a bit
plop on a reverb "standard room" seems like a good start point
into a simple delay linked for that sunday sunday sunday race day

also if you hold the mic about half way into your palm and make a fist it seems to help allot.

[seismicexplo]

a combination of saturator and eq may do it
set the eq to cut (aprox.) below 300hz and cut above 3000hz
that and a little drive on the saturator
you may also want to try some reverb
and/or changing the order of effects(like put the saturator before or after the eq/reverb)
(instead of saturator you could also use redux, overdrive or vinyldistorion)

seis.

[bosonHavoc]

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

Watch the videos and you'll crap your pants.

Pants shat.

i shat my pants when i looked at the price tag hehe..

[kramerica]

Thanks for the recs. I'm gonna try and keep it "in house" and use abes effects. Plus, I have guitar rig. Just wanted to skip the experimentation and get some solid tips before attempting.

[knotkranky]

you'll need to put a short 80ms slap delay for the wall reflective thing or try a long obvious predelay on a short hall verb.

[Khazul]

Any ideas on how to get that vocal megaphone sound without actually using a megaphone? Flaming Lips uses an actual megaphone alot but I'm wondering what would be good for home recording (i.e. effects chain).

Overdrive + reverb plugins ought to do it in Live 8.

[mikemc]

LIVE'S EQ3 MIDNIGHT PRESET

[Pitch Black]

you'll need to put a short 80ms slap delay for the wall reflective thing or try a long obvious predelay on a short hall verb.

+1 for the slap delay for that "live amplified PA" effect. Crucial.

Cut the lows, cut the highs, boost the mids, distort to taste and slapback.

[Tone Deft]

I wonder if there's a Live EQ preset that does this.

[crumhorn]

Some more extreme settings of Live's Vinyl Distortion device might get you close to what you want.

[SubFunk]

you'll need to put a short 80ms slap delay for the wall reflective thing or try a long obvious predelay on a short hall verb.

+1 for the slap delay for that "live amplified PA" effect. Crucial.

Cut the lows, cut the highs, boost the mids, distort to taste and slapback.

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