Hi, i'm new here.
Hello everyone !
I'm looking for a plugins which can simulate a ci-bi or talkie walkie effects !

Thanks a lot for your answers.

Best regards.

dom.

Why not try something like a bit-reducer w/some EQ (filter out highs and lows)? Check the "Quick Effect Links" at right.

You can use impulses recorded from CB and walkie talkies, in a convolution plugin such as SIR. (Of course if you actually have the walkie talkies, you might not need to also simulate them. That would depend on your particular circumstance.)

You might want to look on the net for impulses from such radio equipment. I know some people have posted impulses of telephone equipment, which has a somewhat similar sound.


later,
McLilith

I think that Bit reducer+Hi pass filter is the way to go.
edit: use white-noise samples with a short enveloppe to simulate the typical noise in between conversations.

loomchild wrote:

use white-noise samples with a short enveloppe to simulate the typical noise in between conversations.

I wouldn't exactly call that typical. For example, Hollywood often exaggerates the sound of radio communications by injecting a noticeable burst of white noise at the end of each transmission. It's as if they wanted to make local radio communication sound like a lunar lander mission or something. I would definitely be sparing with the white noise effect. I would concentrate more on a believeable "key click" effect, for when the AM carrier is shut off with the microphone's push-to-talk switch. This isn't like key click on an organ. Compared to that, it's often more like "key crunch".

Of course, I would probably just record some walkie talkies, if I were doing this.

As for bit-reduction, I really don't see how this cold digital distorion effect gets you very close to an analog walkie talkie sound.

I could definitely understand using some compression, and maybe some modest overdrive. Lots of CB-ers used microphones with compression circuitry built into the microphone. AM receivers also have a form of compression built into their circuitry.


later,
McLilith