Make a new recording sound old?

[bigwillz24]

I was wondering how to acheive this effect...

I want a vocal to sound like a old news broadcast any ideas?

[Cloneboy Studio]

Izotope Vinyl is good for lofi record sounds.

Best bet for an old broadcast is to add static/radio noise as a seperate track mixed at a level that you find optimum. I'd low pass filter the white noise at about 800khz though, then just add some radio modulation noises or make some using any of a half dozen freeware AM (amplitude modulation) style plugins. Ring modulators may work as well, but AM can produce sidebands that add authenticity to the sound.

Next thing I'd do is hard compress the crap out of the summed audio (commentary, any produced sound fx, static and radio 'noises') to give it that old time radio zero bandwidth feeling, plus cheap limited speakers. Then I'd spike EQ around 1khz and 3khz to get it trebly and nasty.

Then run a bandpass filter from 600hz to about 3khz to get rid of the high end and low end. Lose more lowend than high, but you want to make it sound super lofi.

The imperfections will 'sell' the audio. Listen to 30's broadcasts for the types of overall sound, imperfections, glitches and sounds present. Aim for authenticity and you can make it very believable.

Any music they play on air should be heavily processed with Izotope Vinyl in the 1930's setting, with some dust and electronic noise added into it. Make the source music sound real as well--that it came off an old record player and THEN got further mangled by being broadcast.

Don't forget to slap a limiter on the audio as well, to simulate the limiters used in radio broadcasts.

Good luck, I hope this helps.

[glimmer_doll]

yeah, i'd say cutting the lows and highs would be a good start, and perhaps compress the shit out of it...i guess it also helps if you have one of those "radio" voices...

i guess you could also try reamping the vocal through a shit speaker and mic that...that might be interesting

[bigwillz24]

Thank's

i'll give it a go tommorow sometime i'm still at work

[capnreverb]

a really cheap ass crappy mic would help too. I have bought a few vintage mics on ebay for cheap that sound terrible in terms of sound quality but are great for "colour".

[ender4trackmind]

Your going for an effect...so why not use an effect. If you have some unit that has a radio / or battery amp sim in it...try that out.

Other then that you could use a harp mic, perhaps even run it through an amp and mic that.

Record to a low-fi deck ( something without noise reduction ) and trans the track.

Put a mic in a box...":P heck just about anything...

[acquit music]

welll yes experiance with some ...boxes..

if you use a computer...like clone boy sayd.. isotope vinyl is really great.
its a software vst. or dx plugin(dont remember) you can use in a vst host progr.

greets y.