Megaphone Effect

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Hey all...I am working in Sonar 8.5.

I am looking for a nice megaphone effect for a vocal track. Does anyone know of a good, quick and dirty VST (preferably free of course), or better yet, a recommendation on EQ, Compression, et. al that could accomplish this without any fancy tools?

JD.
 
I was very impressed with the Tom Waits method that I saw him use live a few years ago:

He got an actual megaphone and sung through that into the microphone.

G.
 
I guess I should be more specific...I have an already tracked vocal, on which I'd like to simulate a megaphone effect instead of re-tracking with a megaphone.
 
Cut the low EQ, crank the hell out of 400-800, and add distortion.
Or hell, get a megaphone and hold it in front of a speaker playing the recording.

In the future just use a megaphone. That's always how I've seen it done.
 
Bandpass 300-6kHz, overdrive/distortion, bandpass again 300-6kHz. Adjust bandpass frequencies and distortion to taste. The double bandpass is because the audio stage that distorts is often followed by more band limited electronics that filter out some of the harmonics created by the distortion.
 
yeah use a megaphone, every home studio should have one...i hate digital megaphone simulations...I use an analogue valve megaphone :laughings:

ffs you guys are fricken hilarious sometimes :)


Rocksonics has a megaphone/bullhorn vst for $5?? for that price might be worth it VST Plug-ins for PC ...when Ive tried it before Ive used Guitar Rig 2 which had a pretty realistic megaphone preset, POD Farm has one too as far as I remember
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Bandpass 300-6kHz, overdrive/distortion, bandpass again 300-6kHz. Adjust bandpass frequencies and distortion to taste. The double bandpass is because the audio stage that distorts is often followed by more band limited electronics that filter out some of the harmonics created by the distortion.
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Nice solution. I'd probably add a slight touch of reverb to it too so that it sounds like it actually being used in some kind of environment that would require megaphone usage.
 
Thanks for the assistance guys. All great info.

I think I do need to get one for the studio, and I think I'll go tube...but hell I dunno...do I go combo or stack? Vintage?
 
kcearl said:
yeah use a megaphone, every home studio should have one...i hate digital megaphone simulations...I use an analogue valve megaphone :laughings:

ffs you guys are fricken hilarious sometimes :)
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No shit. I mean, who doesn't have a fucking megaphone laying around? :rolleyes:
 
I don't. I have a PA system and generator on wheels. I take it everywhere with me. It's great for dealing with long queues where there's some geriatric fool at the front wasting everyone's time. Scream into the PA, they have a heart attack, the paramedic takes them away, and the line moves on. Awesome.
 
Bandpass around 800-2k (play around with the cutoffs for best result). Send it thru the Guitar suites tubescreamer plugin. Add some reverb to taste. If you REALLY want it to sound effected, send it to the reverb pre-fader, and pull the channel fader way down, or all the way down.
 
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Greg_L said:
No shit. I mean, who doesn't have a fucking megaphone laying around? :rolleyes:
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Or a sheet of poster board with which they can MAKE a megaphone?? If you lack that, one is as close as the nearest Office Depot... The guy who charted with "Winchester Cathedral" in the late 60's used an honest-to-God cheerleader's megaphone for, well, the megaphone sound.
 
stevieb said:
Or a sheet of poster board with which they can MAKE a megaphone?? If you lack that, one is as close as the nearest Office Depot... The guy who charted with "Winchester Cathedral" in the late 60's used an honest-to-God cheerleader's megaphone for, well, the megaphone sound.
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For me the best song the Supremes ever did was "You keep me hanging on", an immense track. And "Winchester Cathedral" knocked it off the top of the charts ! Then it was knocked off by the Beach boys' "Good Vibrations" then it got back to the top then the the Monkees applied the final killer blow with "I'm a believer".
What, you may be wondering, has all this got to do with megaphones ? Absolutely nothing !
 
stevieb said:
Or a sheet of poster board with which they can MAKE a megaphone?? If you lack that, one is as close as the nearest Office Depot... The guy who charted with "Winchester Cathedral" in the late 60's used an honest-to-God cheerleader's megaphone for, well, the megaphone sound.
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or take the track youve recorded and re amp with some reverb an a low pass filter, then compress it and run it through an oscillator...at this point you may have to re-EQ, build a tiled room 10' by 6', stand at one of the narrow ends and balance on one toe while juggling a marmoset, an idaho potato, and a Royal Dalton china tea cup, whilst turning all your silver coins face up on a full moon and doing an impersonation of a mountaineer trapped in a crevasse on the south face of Mount Blanc, in mid-june, with no body hair..


alternatively spend $5 on a plug in.....
 
kcearl said:
or take the track youve recorded and re amp with some reverb an a low pass filter, then compress it and run it through an oscillator...at this point you may have to re-EQ, build a tiled room 10' by 6', stand at one of the narrow ends and balance on one toe while juggling a marmoset, an idaho potato, and a Royal Dalton china tea cup, whilst turning all your silver coins face up on a full moon and doing an impersonation of a mountaineer trapped in a crevasse on the south face of Mount Blanc, in mid-june, with no body hair..


alternatively spend $5 on a plug in.....
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The flaw in this equation is the marmoset.
 
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