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Subject:Help with using compression/EQ Posted by: bkozak Date:3/13/2000 11:16:00 PM I'm trying to figure out how best to use SoundForge XP 4.5 to record a voiceover and then edit the wave file to make it sound as if it were recorded over a telephone. I've come close (I think) by rolling off the bass and midrange completely, and boosting the treble sliders until the sound clips, plus adding compression for good measure. Does anybody know of some guidelines/technical papers/information sources I can find that can help me with these kinds of sound reshaping projects? Right now I'm just making (semi-)educated guesses. /Brad
Subject:Re: Help with using compression/EQ Reply by: number6 Date:3/27/2000 11:51:00 AM I'm sorry I can't help answer your question, but you bring up a point that's a bit of a sore one with me and these audio-processing tools in general. I wish there was some good book I could read about sound- shaping and -processing which would give some actual numbers or pictures of graphs to use to create different sonic effects, such as the one you mentioned in your message. Because of the popular pricing of such programs as SFXP, this software is now in the hands of guys like me, rank amateurs who don't know what we're doing and would love some good professional pointers in the right direction to get done what we know others have probably already done a hundred times over. In other words, why re-invent the wheel? Somebody somewhere has probably already successfully done what we're trying to do, we just have to find them and get them to spill the beans. Brad Kozak wrote: >>I'm trying to figure out how best to use SoundForge XP 4.5 >>to record a voiceover and then edit the wave file to make >>it sound as if it were recorded over a telephone. I've come >>close (I think) by rolling off the bass and midrange >>completely, and boosting the treble sliders until the sound >>clips, plus adding compression for good measure. >> >>Does anybody know of some guidelines/technical >>papers/information sources I can find that can help me with >>these kinds of sound reshaping projects? Right now I'm just >>making (semi-)educated guesses. >> >>/Brad >>

I'm sorry I can't help answer your question, but you bring up a point
that's a bit of a sore one with me and these audio-processing tools
in general. I wish there was some good book I could read about sound-
shaping and -processing which would give some actual numbers or
pictures of graphs to use to create different sonic effects, such as
the one you mentioned in your message. Because of the popular
pricing of such programs as SFXP, this software is now in the hands
of guys like me, rank amateurs who don't know what we're doing and
would love some good professional pointers in the right direction to
get done what we know others have probably already done a hundred
times over. In other words, why re-invent the wheel? Somebody
somewhere has probably already successfully done what we're trying to
do, we just have to find them and get them to spill the beans.

Brad Kozak wrote:
>>I'm trying to figure out how best to use SoundForge XP 4.5
>>to record a voiceover and then edit the wave file to make
>>it sound as if it were recorded over a telephone. I've come
>>close (I think) by rolling off the bass and midrange
>>completely, and boosting the treble sliders until the sound
>>clips, plus adding compression for good measure.
>>
>>Does anybody know of some guidelines/technical
>>papers/information sources I can find that can help me with
>>these kinds of sound reshaping projects? Right now I'm just
>>making (semi-)educated guesses.
>>
>>/Brad
>>