I'm doing some audio effects work for a friend's video game/app business. He has asked me to create some robotic death animation sound effects (like "oh no" and the like) for when little robotic creatures get killed in this particular game. He specifically mentioned the "Ironman" intro as the direction he would like this to go. Can anyone share a technique or effect that will get me in the ballpark (we're talking the "I am Ironman" at the beginning of the song)? Tried the TAL Vocoder but doesn't really get me there, at least not with the settings I was experimenting with.
 
Thanks
 
Rusty

The Sonitus modulator has a couple of pre-sets you could use as a start point, the 'black metal' one might work in combo with some pitch-shifting, also the 'dalek'.

I'll check that out. Thanks.

I believe the "I am Iron Man" effect was achieved using a talkbox, where you run a guitar amp through a plastic tube inserted into your mouth, allowing you to create formants. Like the ones famously used by Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton. AFAIK they are still manufactured by Walsh's onetime business partner, Bob Heil.

You should be able to get close with a vocoder, but I think you'd have to add distortion like Guitar Rig or something similar.


[EDIT]I looked it up, and the Heil talkbox is still being made, but by Dunlop Manufacturing - the company that makes your guitar strings and picks.

Rusty
Check out Kerovee
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/kerovee-by-g200kg

this is free pitch correction software and it is cool.....I've used it a few times. It is easy, breezy and fun......totally.........If you do not end up using it for your friend I am sure that you will spend hours just playing around with it....

Clifford

sounds like a tremolo on the distorted signal to me...

Truckermusic


Rusty
Check out Kerovee
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/kerovee-by-g200kg

this is free pitch correction software and it is cool.....I've used it a few times. It is easy, breezy and fun......totally.........If you do not end up using it for your friend I am sure that you will spend hours just playing around with it....

Clifford

This thing is very cool...use it a lot with various things here...

bitflipper


Dunlop Manufacturing - the company that makes your guitar strings and picks.

They make picks and strings for just one person? Doesn't sound very profitable.

Hi Rusty,

I just threw these together for you real quick. I can literally get the iron man sound if I mess with it...but I just fired up these two plugs from Avox...the Mutator and Throat and got these in seconds. The suite can be found here: http://www.antarestech.com/products/avox.shtml
 
Here are some examples:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/DannyIronMan1.mp3

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/DannyIronMan2.mp3

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/DannyIronMan3.mp3

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/DannyIronMan4.mp3

You should be able to do this with Melodyne as well as using maybe a delay and a verb with some pre-delay to really make it sound killer. But these sounds were done in seconds just by tweaking those two plugs. The first example is using Mutator. The rest are all the Throat plug. Hope this helps...good luck bro.

-Danny

Try a Ring Modulator, that is how they achieve the dalek effect and possible pitchshifting and distortion but there is def Ring Modulator.

Peace Ben