Voice/Vocal Machine/Software

[Orson]

A long shot but here goes....... Is there any analogue machine or magic box that can alter a persons voice and produce another 'natural' voice from it?

So basically without too much effort you could produce two or more totally different character/human voices from a studio mic.

I do not mean those machines like a Roland VT4 which improve a crap vocals into a singing voice. I am looking for something that could alter the natural voice so one person could produce two or more different peoples voices.

 

[Mickster]

What are you looking to accomplish? Are you trying to add harmonies or backup vocals?

 

[Orson]

What are you looking to accomplish? Are you trying to add harmonies or backup vocals?

No it is for voice overs. So when attempting a different character voice. I am trying to exaggerate it so it actually does sound like a different person and not sound ridiculous.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

There are a variety of techniques to accomplish this.

The best one will obviously be to practice your VO skills until you can produce a variety of distinct sounding characters regardless of what tools you have.

This can be supplemented with subtle pitch/speed changes. Sometimes reverb and distortion can accent a character voice, but it will rarely sound like a "natural" human voice.

Otherwise, there are tools to emulate different microphones and rooms, but that will just sound like your voice in a different room with a different mic.