With the use of the McDSP Futzbox or with free plugins (ReaEQ mainly) included with REAPER, you can create a distorted megaphone vocal effect. Basically what you are doing to make any audio sound like it is coming from a megaphone (or telephone) is emphasizing the middle frequencies and pretty much deleting the low and high frequencies. You can just create a narrow bandwidth in the middle of the frequency spectrum, and filter out the rest of the frequencies with the EQ plugin. See picture on the left. Watch the video from the Reaper Blog for more information.
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Creating A Perfect Vocal With Comping
What is Comping? Comping is an integral part of modern vocal production. Not all vocalists are perfect. They can still improve with comping. Now, this tutorial that I will show you gives you a step by step guide to Comping.
Sound (More) Like The Beatles With The Abbey Road Collection Of Plugins
The Abbey Road Collection of plugins by Waves Audio features a bunch of – you guessed it – plugins that model the vintage gear from the famed Abbey Roads Studios in London, UK. These hardware emulation plugins feature models of microphones, consoles, tape recorder machines and unique effects. This was the gear (the ACTUAL gear, not the software models, obviously) used by such bands as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2 and many others.
Will you sound like The Beatles or any of the other history0making acts that recorded at Abbey Roads if you use the Waves Abbey Road Collection? Well, I guess that depends on how much talent you have to begin with:-P. But if you play similar music with similar instruments, then you can definitely sound MORE like The Beatles (etc) by applying the plugins in this collection to your recordings. Take a look at the video below for a quick overview of The Abbey Road Collection.
You can get your very own Abbey Roads Collection if you CLICK HERE.
Volume Automation To Enhance Song Dynamics
Watch this video tutorial by The Reaper Blog about using simple volume automation on drum mix elements to improve the overall song dynamics and contrast between each section of the song. Here are more details.
Mastering Hub by MusicTech
Give yourself a break by following these tutorials and finish it until the end to have a better understanding of mastering guides, features and software. Here it is!