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That effect is called Backwards Reverb - the simplest way to do it is to reverse the waveform, then add a normal reverb, then reverse it again.
Many DAW's have a backwards reverb plugin which effectively does exactly this, but without you having to do the reversing manually, but I don't think Fruity Loops has this.
I did find this tutorial specific to ...
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Yes, it's possible. What you need to do is demux and remux. Check out free tools like VirtualDub and Any Video Converter to split the original into separate streams, add what you want using Audacity or similar, then re-multiplex them together using a tool like AviMux. The video can remain unchanged.
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Ah, the old question: How do I make the vocals heard over a band with a tiny PA? It's not always easy.
Compression won't help you; it may actually make things worse by making feedback more likely. It sounds like you're using underpowered PAs, and if you want the vocals to be loud enough you'll need the band to play more quietly. But the band has to want to ...
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As sound waves travel through bone as well as air, of course you will sound different to a recording. When you play back a recording you just won't get any of those sounds transmitted through your skull.
You will be able to approximate the sound by using an equaliser and boosting our cutting frequency ranges - trial and error is your best bet here, as ...
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Neil Fein wrote a great post about what you can do, but another thing to consider is to make sure you talk with the sound guy about how you want it to sound. If there is a dedicated engineer there and it is a smaller venue, chances are good that they aren't very good and may be used to the "living room experience" ie, crank the bass and the guitars and ...
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There's no magic bullet, but here's a few things you can try.
First you'll need a program to edit the audio. I'm on a mac and use Apple's Logic. Its a couple hundred bucks and very powerful for the cost.
To clean up the hiss noise that was undoubtedly recorded with the laptop mic, use a de-noiser plug-in. Plug ins for audio work similarly to layer ...
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Try a parametric EQ, or a band-reject filter (essentially the same thing).
Setup your audio so that you can loop the section with the problem sound.
In your EQ or filter, adjust the controls so that your band is narrow and deep. That is, a small range of frequency is impacted, but that band is almost entirely attenuated.
slowly sweep the filter from low ...
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Speech Detection
You havent mentioned what NLE you use to edit, however here is a method you can use to transcribe if you are using Adobe CS4 or later.
This method uses speech detection to automatically transcribe videos - a feature brought in with CS4. It then adds the the text into the metadata of the file.
Analyze speech to create text metadata
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I would like to offer a counter argument. Overdriving a preamp or adding distortion to the vocal does not make a vocal sound like Metallica or Judas Priest. Those vocals are warm and clear as a bell. Even Brian Johnson's vocals are recorded as clean as possible (Mutt Lang influence).
If I have only two grand to spend for my vocal chain, I would get a decent ...
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If I understand correctly, the preamp is turned up to a gain where it is clipping. This means your problem is not with the mic, because it is giving the UA 101 a good signal to work with. The UA 101 is a USB interface, so its input into the DAW you're using is controlled by the software. Check the software settings, because the problem might be that you ...
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According to my book of the radio scripts the pre-Babel fish voice was done by ignoring his description of 'a combination gargling, howling, sniffing and fighting off a pack of wolves' and just revering the speech recording. I think they did a lot of stuff with just tape.
It doesn't specify what was used for the translated Vogon voice, but they had access ...
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Phase inversion may help.
Take a clean (no post-processing) mono vocal track and a clean mono instrument track. Invert the phase of one of them, and start playback. Listen closely while adjusting the relative playback positions of the tracks (offsetting a few samples at a time), to bring them closer to phase alignment. You may notice a slight improvement ...
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You can certainly drop the pitch, but the tricky bit is that a tenor voice has a very different timbre - there are different harmonics, different resonances etc.
The preferred solution would be to get someone with a deep voice to help you :-)
If you have no-one else to help then try a combination of lowering the pitch, and stretching the time frame. The ...
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It's difficult to answer because the microphone is but one link in the chain, and you don't mention what else you're using.
Having said that, the B1 is probably sufficient for basic studio recording. I've not used one myself, but there are many ways to overcome one deficiency or another.
If your mic is the weak link in the chain, a top notch preamp can ...
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None of us hear our voices as they are. As Dr. mayhem pointed, you hear your voice through bones (and skull is a pretty complicated system with lots of small resonating cavities) and through the air. Have in mind that your ears are behind your mouth so the air part that you hear is mostly reflected around. All that is then filtered by the brain (which is, if ...
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The following assumes the effect really works as you think. I don't actually know!
Before you start undoing any pitch-shift you will need to separate the tracks. This can't be done properly with ordinary EQing, but should be rather accomplishable with a comb filter, since speech (at least the parts that respond critically to a pitch-shift) consist mostly of ...
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Basically, if you mix two different frequencies (and this is the outcome of mixing audio with different pitch), you will get a multitude of frequencies.
For example, if the original audio contains a frequency of 1000 hz at some point, this will be represented as 800 Hz and 700 Hz. If you now mix these frequencies, you will get the sum of these frequencies ...
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A non-technical suggestion: consider revising your song arrangements and playing style so that the instrumentalists interplay with the vocalist — be quiet when she is singing, be loud when she isn't.
Create interlocking patterns, moving the accented notes you play to occur when the vocalist takes a breath or pauses between phrases.
Make sure every ...
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Well, no need to worry about. Transcribing footage is something very easy now-these-days. What you have to make sure is that just write down all your audio in chronological order and he time codes of when each section begins and ends. Try to include punctuation and how phrases are expressed, so your are as close to the video as possible.
If you are seriously ...
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"to be heard above the music" – above what music? If it's some fully-mastered mixdown that you're replaying at 0dB, then this is no surprise: such a track has lots and lots of compression on it, making it way louder than a clean microphone track can ever possibly be. You may feel that it's the microphone that's too quiet, but in fact "everything else is too ...
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I tried to find detail on how they recorded the original, but no joy.
This chap has tried to emulate the sound effect as part of his University course - https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~aarun/220a/hw4.html
In his words:
I recorded myself speaking with a deep-throated, nasal voice, and applied echo and chorus effects in Audacity, to try to imitate the voices ...
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You basically need a Binaural microphone. I haven't used one myself, but the way these work is by capturing sound at the same place you hear sound; within your ears, one mic in each ear.
The shape of your head and ears shapes the sound you hear, so you'll need to replicate that shape (or just use your own head/ears) to capture "what you hear", in addition ...
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