in the air of the night effect, how to achieve

[oldskooldave]

I need the effect for a voice over im recording, you know the effect I mean, what is it called, can't find it on Cubase sx

 

[Massive Master]

A lot of distortion...? Too much compression...? Reverse reverb...?

There's a LOT of effects on that vocal... Can you be a little more specific?

 

[moresound]

A lot of distortion...? Too much compression...? Reverse reverb...?

There's a LOT of effects on that vocal... Can you be a little more specific?

Reverse verb like massive suggested possible add a bit of flange but if that's to much a bit of chorus.

 

[oldskooldave]

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A lot of distortion...? Too much compression...? Reverse reverb...?

There's a LOT of effects on that vocal... Can you be a little more specific?

its the sound that sounds as if you're breath is being vacuumed out of your mouth as you speak

 

[leaningpine]

The song "In the air tonight" By Phil Collins? If it's that tune the lead vocal has a very short delay added to it, the "I remember" part I think is a vocoder

 

[Massive Master]

its the sound that sounds as if you're breath is being vacuumed out of your mouth as you speak

Awful lot of synthesis in some parts also... "But I remember..." is probably more synth than vocal.

 

[Armistice]

Thank god someone's worked it out.

I've been wondering for days WTF the OP was referring to... and watching the post sink down... down... down...

Hey oldskool... if you want to poach other technical aspects of that song, remember that a gorilla on the drumset is essential...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

 

[philbagg]

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_phil_collins_air/

Thank me later

The vocals were recorded with a Beyerdynamic M88 and an Allen & Heath limiter, which gave him his signature guttural sound. “This limiter probably cost 100 quid or something, and it had one slide kind of knob that let you get either more compression or less compression, and it gave very basic forms of fast attack, slow attack, fast release, slow release,” Padgham says. “Doing the demos at home, Phil realized that if he had the limiter on a very slow attack but fast release, and if he sang a word that began with a sharp consonant like a ‘k’ or ‘t,’ the initial front of the ‘k’ would get through the limiter before it started limiting, so we'd have this very pronounced front to a word that had that kind of consonant. He would sing into this limiter, using it almost as an instrument. Also, there's a vocoder on the words ‘I remember’ in the second verse.”

There's probably also reverb or reverse reverb and maybe delay. I can't "remember" D)