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How to make a voice sound like it’s coming over the telephone in post using AE CS5 sound tools?
I already have the actor’s voice recording with the video and had rather not have to do a an ADR session if I can avoid it. Also what settings could I use to take a little bit of room echo out of the voice? It’s not terrible as-is, but would be better if I could dry it up a bit.
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I am by no means an expert and I don’t normally use After Effects for sound, but this might help you get started.
For the phone effect you want to create an EQ filter so only 400-1k is coming out. Narrowing the bands even more will heighten the effect. Parametric EQ is the effect but I don’t know how it works in AE.
For the room echo add the reverb effect and play with the wet/dry controls. You may have some success going to a negative reverb as well.
Hope that helps,
Clay -
As you probably have learned, AE really isn’t the program you want to use to create audio effects. If you don’t have Audition(which has a pre-built telephone eq), you could download Soundforge’s Audacity and then follow this tutorial for creating telephone-like audio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G688bPA7nS4
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