How do you make one of those real crazy radio bumper/promo voices?

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kbaccki wrote:The other thing I forgot to mention is that the totally overprocessed sound you're talking about needs to be done in several passes... I.e., there's no one-shot solution, if you know what I mean. Those spots are pieced together from layers of hacked, chopped, channeled, and processed clips... E.g., a common effect is the st-st-st-st-st-stutter they put in for dramatic effect, which is easy to do with any old WAV editor... I may be stating the obvious here, but if not: you need to think in terms building the thing from the ground up, not applying a rack of effects to a single, static voice track.... Know what I mean?
This is how a lot of radio production works, especially concert commercials. You just take it one step at a time. Typically, there are time constraints on the spot as well as specific requests or restrictions based on the contract. If it's a bumper/sweeper, it all depends on the things I mentioned already.

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lagavulin16 wrote:
djanthonyw wrote:You mean like this... http://www.sendspace.com/file/dvct91
Sort of, but with more emphasis on the voice and less on the music. Starting 18 seconds in here is a good example:



Meffy: I'm not talking a good announcing voice. I'm talking something hyper processed and yes, rather distasteful! I need to do this as a joke for a friend. metamorphosis and AuthenticDan have the right idea!
I'm with Meffy and Koolkeys on this one. I radio "DJ'd" when it required a LICENSE to sit at the mic, and have done several thousand radio/T.V spots/product VO's/voice talent gigs for years, and you ALWAYS start with "the voice".

The "voice" example you've given above is fairly deep to begin with, smothered in reverb, a touch of chorus(ing), with a trail-off of flanged-delay, and not much more than that.

Why don't you upload your "copy" (I'm assuming you've written 'copy') and let a bunch of us play with it for you, and see what you get?

:wink:

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Shabdahbriah wrote:Why don't you upload your "copy" (I'm assuming you've written 'copy') and let a bunch of us play with it for you, and see what you get?
I have the exact polar opposite of what you guys in the biz would call "a good set of pipes"... :lol:

But that would be a great idea for a KVR challenge that anybody could do for a bit of fun: best 15 second voiceover, bumper, spot, whatever...

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(horrible youtube distortion but you the idea) :hihi:
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kbaccki wrote:...But that would be a great idea for a KVR challenge that anybody could do for a bit of fun: best 15 second voiceover, bumper, spot, whatever...
+1

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just apply a bunch of effects to it, chorus and flange and wild eq and stuff.

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