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.
Can I change the character of my voice?
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- KVRAF
- 16891 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
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.
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- KVRist
- 485 posts since 8 May, 2007
Don't know if this is helpful or not, but here are three examples I, a mere amateur, snipped out of my works:
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.
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.
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- KVRAF
- 7120 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
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
- 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