[Audacity] Telephone Effect

[anime_master2005]

Hey guys, I was doing audio editing for my new Black Lagoon The Abridged Series, and there's a fair bit of people talking on the phone that was vital to the plot, so I figured I'd do a tutorial to show you guys how to do it.

EXAMPLE:

THE TELEPHONE EFFECT TAKES PLACE AT 9:20-9:45


It wouldn't hurt if you watched the entire episode as well and left a comment =P

But enough shameless self-promoting, on with the tutorial.

STEP 1
Open Audacity.

STEP 2
Open your file(s) that you wish to add the effect to.

STEP 3
Select the entire audio form by hitting Ctrl + A

STEP 4
Now go to Effect>Low Pass Filter.

STEP 5
Now go to Effect>High Pass Filter.

STEP 6
Now go to Effect>Compressor.


And that's it! Depending on how muffled you want it to sound, you can additionally repeat steps 4-6, but I don't recommend doing it more than twice, as the audio quality starts to suffer more than you probably want.

Cheers, hope you enjoy, drop a comment if you'd like.

[Midnightmoonproductions]

Thank you so much ^.^ This helped me out big time for my chrono crusade fandub.

[GoldenOtaku]

This will defiantly help me in the near future, thank you

[lettuchi]

Thanks so much for this!

[Libra89]

If you have Magix (a music mixing software that can also work for recording and video) then just go to templates and it's right there.

[authortkh]

Thanks!

[martialmichael126]

Personally, I open up the equalizer and cut out a majority of the low frequencies and a good amount of the high frequencies.

It essentially ends up looking something like this (only less crude). ______----___

[RebootedMachinim]

Goldwave has a telephone effect.

[reteo]

I was under the impression that exporting audio at 8KHz would be enough to produce the effect.

[InuKai]

Doesn't always work. In my case, it slows everything down or speeds everything up.