I thought it would be neat if I could record some spoken words today and make them sound like they were recorded in the 1950s. Listen to the general sound of the speech in this collection of commercials, for example:
A couple of things are an obvious part of the sound: the noisiness, and the reduced frequency response in both highs and lows compared to recordings made today. There is sometimes a bit of distortion on loud parts as well. But do you have any other ideas on how to achieve a "'50s" or general "old" sound?
Dec-01-2009 01:53
Mr.Mystery
Static Guru
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa
Well, first you need to imitate Zapp Brannigan poorly...
Sounds to me there's quite a bit of wow/flutter (or whateveryoucallit) like on old, poorly handled tapes. It also seems like a lot of the time the recordings might be pitched up or down a very tiny amount.
I've used the BF76 when I was school, and I had to make a fake radio commercial...It gave me that 'radio' timbre, if that makes sense.
I would also add noise, maybe a tiny bit of distortion.
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Dec-01-2009 03:07
kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
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You'll need to emulate the accent too. People spoke differently back then and that might be difficult.
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location
i'd probably record it onto a really old tape and dub it over and over again as the final product, but prior to that yeh feed it through izotope vinyl and get them bandpass filters on them
the absolute best product you can buy for this is Speakerphone. It is a serious of about 450+ convolutions of eq/compression/bit reduction settings used to emulate old recordings, lo-fi & hi-fi sounds etc. i use this thing ALL THE TIME and love it. I did the intro to this remix with it:
