DAN AGOSTO: Hello gear fans and welcome to another screen-cast from Gearwire.Com. my name is Dan. Check, plosive, plosive, plosive. So, as you can see right there, I just recorded some of my vocals for seemingly no reason, but the actual reason is because we’re going to listen to this and sort of do using the filters on this Neve 88RS which comes -- which is a UAD plugin, runs on a UAD 1 card, and is one of the newer ones, and sort of do a telephone effect using the filters and maybe a little bit of EQ. So, I’m just going to go ahead and loop this and see what we can do.

The telephone effect is really a band pass filter. The telephone will only pass about 8,000 Hz of frequency range. Bandwidth is 8,000 Hz when the actual hearing range of a healthy young child is more like 20,000 Hz, cycles, or whatever. So, let’s listen to this and make this into a telephone-type signal using these filters. And by the way, I do really like these filters. They’re very useable, they don’t sound weird, they don’t introduce much weird phase problems, what they do introduce is usually pretty nice, and I like to use it. So, let’s get moving on this. I’m going to start [OVERLAPPING]

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Just a little background, a plosive sound is like a P. I’ve turned off -- I usually record with a low-pass filter which I’m actually going to turn on right now. I’m sorry, it’s a high pass filter. This is what I usually record with, and so you don’t get any of those weird plosives, but I turned it off for that so that we could show that a plosive, which is a P sound, a P pop. Even though I do have a windscreen with this microphone, sometimes it does get through so we do need to apply some low filtering.

Let’s just kind of loop that section where I say plosive.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

What I’m going to try to do is get rid of the P without affecting the rest of the voice. This is good practice, good to know, something good to know.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

So, right around there, but then again we are just trying to get a telephone signal using the filters and you might have to use a little bit of EQ. They’re not that crazy. The filters aren’t that insane but so basically we just turn the high-pass filter all the way up to 315 Hz. Now, let’s do the same with the cut filter, or the high cut.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

So, that one doesn’t naturally go that low, so what we’re going to need to do is bring out some more of that treble, or maybe even more of that bass, so let’s just go ahead and go nuts.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Sometimes, in a telephone effect there’s also some strange resonances that you would notice and how to do that would be like some high Q. So, we turned up -- we turned down the bandwidth effectively but made the Q smaller.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Maybe find an annoying little frequency in there.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Give it more of that treble.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Try to [OVERLAPPING]

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

So, I found another resonance in there, and I’m going to take out even more of the bass because there’s just too much of it.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Well, as long as we’re doing it, another thing that happens to a voice when going over telephone is it gets very compressed. So, let’s just go crazy with the compressors.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Turn up the overall volume.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING RECORDED VOICE TRACK THROUGH THE NEVE 88RS AND MANIPULATING FILTERS]

Now, maybe you’d want to add a little bit of distortion to that but that is pretty close to what you would find on a lot of EQs or channel strips to simulate a telephone effect. I hope this was informative for you. Make sure to check out this neat plugin if you are able because it’s pretty sweet. All right. Bye.