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lmv · Post by **lmv** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:44 pm

What techniques do you know for changing the character of one's voice?

I am very much a tenor, but for this one particular track, I want to sound like, say, Leonard Cohen. Can that be done?

I don't want to clone his voice exactly. Neither do I want it to sound robotic or artificial. Just a good compromise between my tenor voice and some other much deeper voice.

Recording just after I wake up really helps, but I still need some production technique tips for this.

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:53 pm

Vocal training. But also Melodyne. Lower your formants.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:18 am

Also get as close as you can to the microphone for extra proximity effect. Just eat it. Works really well with dynamic mikes like SM-58. This is how Frank Farian did the low voice for Boney M.

DaveClark · Post by **DaveClark** » Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:41 pm

Don't know if this is helpful or not, but here are three examples I, a mere amateur, snipped out of my works:

https://youtu.be/N0x8m3lTYaM

Open, normal, and closed-off throat. Slightly lower, normal, and higher registers. Different attitudes while performing. Probably also lowering and elevating of chin in concert with open, normal, and closed-off throat. It's important (for me anyway) to rather closely monitor my volume level because slight changes make a big difference.

Almost forgot to say: I try to think of my microphones as instruments to be played using my voice.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:56 pm

Not for realtime jobs, but Waves Ultrapitch has some features I find useful.
- pitch up and down an octave as I recall
- continuous formant switch like from femail to mail voice

They have components for more voices too, if to make a chorus and harmonies and stuff.

But it's 8000 samples delay, so not for realtime.

https://www.waves.com/plugins/ultrapitch

Can I change the character of my voice?