Audio filter?

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:05 am

For my upcoming movie " 1.5 Seconds with a 9 Millie" I need to have a filtered gunshot and I need to filter a peice of dialogue. I need it to sound like a walkie-talkie or a radio. If I can't get something to filter it, then I'm lost.

Please help,
mercenary123

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:28 am

uh, record a wlakie talkie?

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:36 am

record a gunshot through a walkie talkie?
(I have this problem, too)

bad_karma24 · Post by **bad_karma24** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:36 am

What programs do you have? On Premiere you can adjust audio levels to make it sound filtered, though I'm sure there are programs that will do it automatically.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:27 am

2nd_Recon wrote:record a gunshot through a walkie talkie?
(I have this problem, too)

Actaully you can just do this by turning up your voulmue pretty darn high and then recording your favrotie gunshout on a walkie talkie through your computer.. of course you may want to recrod the sound on your camera with a boom mic

pdj · Post by **pdj** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:54 am

It's difficult to help when we don't know what programs you are using. For example, in Ulead's Audio Editor you can achieve this by playing around with the quality-see if you can record in really shyt quality-which will hopefully give you fuzz like on AM radio...works for me

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:33 pm

I'm using Premiere 6.0 and Audacity.

bad_karma24 · Post by **bad_karma24** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:30 pm

Just lower the quality first off, and see how that sounds. Then play around with some other settings.

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:45 pm

Hmm, well, what if I created some white noise in Audacity and then put the voice overs and gunshot on another audio track? I'll this idea now.

EDIT:

I tried this out, and it works pretty well.

Luteleigh · Post by **Luteleigh** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:14 am

use an EQ, most audio programs have them, and start by removing most of the bass (lows). If you've got any distortion guitar effects/plug-ins, they create excellent radio sounding sounds, just go easy on the distortion though or you can't make out the actual sound.

Kentertainment · Post by **Kentertainment** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:30 am

When I got Vegas 5 it came with a program called "ACID 4.0" which can be bought seperatly. Its a music mixing program that you can make sfx and music sound fuzzy and all that other junk. Putting money into it would pointless though when (like Luteleigh said) you could easily just adjust sound on the editing system.

Just an idea.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:00 am

I have acid, they mailed me a free copy of it, I never use it

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:03 am

Send it to me? Please?

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:14 am

I have it registered under my name.. I don't wanna get in trouble for illeagal distubation

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:04 am

I use Adobe Audition. It's great how it can also work within Premiere!

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:59 am

Try using acid xpress. Not anything like the real acid, or sound programs such as Sound Sorge or Audition, but it may do the job...

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/p ... sp?PID=906

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:07 pm

When I bought my adobe package thing, I was allowed to remove audition and save my self 300$.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:04 pm

My father came up with the complete Adobe collection for me over the past few years. Lords knows how he got it all, though people at his work I'm guessing. All three dozen or so programs of them. The digital video/audio programs are the ones I really only use though.

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:56 am

I've been wanting to get Acid, but I got three prop guns.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:59 pm

acids alright.. i dont use it

drumtracks · Post by **drumtracks** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:41 am

You can achieve a Telephone type sound by removing all frequencies below and above around 5khz on a graphic eq.
Take your normal recorded effect and eq it in this way and you will have achieved what you are asking.