Person talking thru phone effect?

1. Ryan3078
   Member

   
   I'm making a film that requires the main character to answer the phone.
   The person on the other end talks out of sight, but I need an effect that will make his voice sound as though he's talking thru a phone or radio.
   
   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
   
   Thanks.

   Posted 6 years ago #

2. pappy
   Member

   
   If you get some sort of sound recording or minipulateing soft \ware ie. Pro tools, cakewalk, acid pro. there are way to take out sertine frequences that phone takes out. other than that, just have a person talk into a phone and record it sepertate. either play it back for the on screen actor or just make a script.

   Posted 6 years ago #

3. Video-maniac
   Member

   
   While I don't know what kind of NLE you're using, I know some of the higher end ones have VST audio filters with presets that can simulate this for you. I know that Abobe Premiere Pro does. If you have any kind of graphic equalizer filter or plugin built in you could just experiement with different settings there too.
   
   RAM

   Posted 6 years ago #

4. Ryan3078
   Member

   
   i do have premiere pro 1.5
   
   i have been playing around with the EQ settings, and this is what i've come up with so far:
   
   go to custom setup, click on low, mid1, mid3
   
   low: freq 499 gain -0.2 dB
   
   mid1: freq 139 gain -17.4 dB
   
   mid3: freq 661 gain -20dB
   
   @ bottom, middle Q at 0.05 oct
   
   you'd probably have to mess around with these numbers to get it sounding exactly like a phone.
   
   still, anyone who knows how to get the phone sound post back
   
   this is a prototype, and still kinda sucks

   Posted 6 years ago #

5. compusolver
   Member

   
   Real telephone lines (old analog POTS lines) will filter out all signals below ~240 Hz and above 3.2 kHz. To simulate a phone line, bandpass everything within those ranges. Shrink the bandpass to make it sound older.
   
   Sound programs like Audition and Sound Forge will let you do this.

   Posted 6 years ago #

6. Camofrog
   Member

   
   Has a preset EQ for just this effect. If you have a Mac.

   Posted 5 years ago #

7. Furball
   Member

   
   Rather easy if you have any version of Premiere Pro.
   
   Under audio effects / stereo, select a low pass filter. This should cut out all of the lower frequency... or at least enough to achieve the desired effect. I'm no audio engineer; just my opinion; from memory, that's what I think did it.
   
   I believe you can also achieve a custom sound by minipulating the faders yourself in the graphic equalizer mode.
   
   MF

   Posted 5 years ago #

8. thonixs
   Member

   
   [quote="Ryan3078"]I'm making a film that requires the main character to answer the phone.
   The person on the other end talks out of sight, but I need an effect that will make his voice sound as though he's talking thru a phone or radio.
   
   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
   
   Thanks.[/quote]
   
   
   For me you just need to ordinary cellphone that has the capability of speakerphone which you need to be nearer to the one who is capturing the audio while the other person will calling to that phone.

   Posted 5 years ago #

9. Ryan3078
   Member

   
   yes, using a cell phone with speakerphone would be a good idea, but I have noticed things when I film near cell phones. Every time, the video camera picks up interference and in playback you can hear this scatchy/squeal of interference

   Posted 5 years ago #

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