new piece of gear

exhausted
exhausted Posts: 6,638
edited January 2004 in Musicians and Gearheads
an old cordless phone with a built in intercom. works great for the telephone voice effects (obviously). i'm going to use it on the cover of crazy mary i'm working on.
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  • mccreadyisgod
    mccreadyisgod Bumfuq, MT Posts: 6,395
    You can do the same thing pretty easily with an SM57, a dirty pre-amp, some hard compression, and a parametric EQ.

    But the real thing is very nice.
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Originally posted by mccreadyisgod
    You can do the same thing pretty easily with an SM57, a dirty pre-amp, some hard compression, and a parametric EQ.

    But the real thing is very nice.

    so $400 vs. $5.
  • mccreadyisgod
    mccreadyisgod Bumfuq, MT Posts: 6,395
    Originally posted by exhausted
    so $400 vs. $5.

    I was thinking you already had all of the above...
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Originally posted by mccreadyisgod
    I was thinking you already had all of the above...

    i know. i'm just being a dick.

    i tried once to recreate it and failed.
  • mccreadyisgod
    mccreadyisgod Bumfuq, MT Posts: 6,395
    Okay, here's what you do:

    You take the mic, a 57 works best... a 58 will work if you unscrew the windscreen. Plug it into your tube preamp, and get it up to where it just barely distorts, probably like +10 dB or so. Then route into an EQ, and cut everything below 100 Hz and above 8 kHz. Bump a narrow band around 4-5 kHz. Then run it into a compressor, use a hard ratio, like 10:1. Get the threshold so that it compresses just about everything you say. Adjust the output so that you don't get any digital distortion. A tad bit of dirty reverb can sound great on this (or your telephone setup, too) like a Doppler or bathroom-sounding verb/delay.
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • albino_rocker
    albino_rocker Posts: 26
    isn't all this just really complicated? cldn't u just . . . put ur hand over ur mouth and use a mic? . . . speaking from the privaliged point of view of not actually knowing wot it should sound like here. i'm just trying to get my posts up . . .
    some things once spoken, can't be taken back

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