audio to sound like loud speaker?

[Russell Lasson]

You’d probably be better off posting in an audio forum, but if I where trying to make that fx, I’d try something like this:

Loud speakers often distort and don’t have much dynamic range. They also will echo a little depending on the environment.

So I would apply an eq filter and turn down the low and high range.

Then you might trying to add some reverb or echo (but just a little bit). If you want to try to distort the audio too by adding a compressor/limiter to make it clip, then turn down the audio levels. Try these settings:

Using these settings, this is what I came up with:

145_loudspeaker.mov.zip

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net

[Matt Campbell]

Russ, thanks man. Appreciate you taking the time to share an example. This will work beautifully. I started playing around with EQ settings myself and just couldn’t get it right. I don’t know enough about audio just yet. Thanks for the screen shots too. They’ll be handy.

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[David Bogie]

Nice work, Russell.

Me, I’d probably pump the audio through some cheap speakers and re-record it with a cheap mic. The problem I have with audio filtering is it usually sounds fake because I am not adept with the controls. And the client gets too picky with all of the sliders and coloration filters that are available in FCP or STP. If I record it, the effect is genuine, the choices are limited, and the project moves along.

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