Emulating radio equiptment through impulse response

[JamieMB]

Hi,

I am working with some voice-over dialog and processing them to sound like they are coming through a cb-radio or some other lo-fi equiptment. My question is: Is it possible to achieve these radioized results using an impulse response of a cb-radio or other equiptment? Currently I am using eq/distortion to get the radio effect but there is something about the tone a real cb-radio that an eq/dist can never match.

If it is possible to use impulse responses of lo-fi gear to get that dirty sound can anybody suggest a plugin which offers such impulses? If not, I suppose I will have to mic the dialog through a cb-radio

Thank you

Jamie

[bambooman]

hi!

you should try this...

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/736.html

with that, you can use your own impulses,
just try it...
... let "us" know if your "cb-radio preset"
works okay.

[JackDark]

Nifty idea, really.

[mooter]

I don't think read it slow enough, Bamboo.
It looks like he was asking IF you can make impulses of cb-radio, and if so, are there any available?

I'm assuming if he already knows about impulse responses he knows about SIR.

I suppose if they can impulse amps and (I think) microphones then a radio sure, but
I think it's a better route to use a plug-in, especially if you want that pre-beep post-beep.
get yourself something like a distortion/bitcrusher effect with a gate after it, and maybe a BP filter in the 400-800 range?

[> DiGiT <]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118880

maybe these?

[C00kie]

IR is a nice technique for changing sounds "linear". Alas, on radio channels there is also some non-linear stuff going on that can't be simulated by IR's. I'm mainly talking about saturation and clipping / distortion, so you can throw in some other plugins for that.

Wasn't there a complete Radio VST effect already?? Google "Radio VST" and you'll find some!

[pilgrim_heart]

One trick that I've used in the past to give a bit of radio feeling to something is to use some creative gating, simply set the gate threshold to where it begins to flutter a bit (this gives the impression of a rather badly tuned radio though, you could probably use an expander for a less extreme effect). If you can record some noise and/or static somewhere you can gate that in a similiar fashion and mix this in to get a bit closer.

I'd guess that you could come pretty close if you'd do this, maybe add a little harmonic distortion and then run the whole thing through an impulse response of the particular radio you want it to sound like.

[lex_strooder]

Fokke van Saane has done some Speakers & Phones convolutions, they are at http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/reverbgear.html