effects question

[Shaun Pitts]

There a couple of effects built in to Soundtrack for something like that. Otherwise, use your channel EQ in FCP.

[Mark Landman]

Try adding a low frequency cutoff at around 380 Hz and a high frequency cutoff around 3kHz.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Chuck Reti]

The “phone filters” we still like to use are a throwback to Western Electric desk sets with carbon mike transmitters and metal diaphragm earpieces. This is the sound that we have come to expect when depicting the far side of a phone conversation. The landline phone system and hardware nowadays do sound just a little better than that, but we’re psychologically prepared to hear that tinny sound on film, video and radio.
What we really need to have is what suzin wants, a preset “cell phone sound” filter. Ideally(?) it would output voices a bit muffled, full of digital glitches, sampling errors and aliasing, occasional drops, and complete sentences scrambled and wrongly reassembled. Like in real life.

[Suzin Daly]

Thanks for all the information. It would be great if there was a phone filter or cell phone sound filter, but since there isn’t. What was recommended that I will try is using the Band Pass Filter, there is a quicktip put out by Ripple Training called Playing Telephone with FCP Band Pass Filter. Will be giving it a try today.
Suzin