question on achieving a digital vocal effect?

[nerhal]

hello I am looking to do a vocal effect for a song that sounds like a digital stutter or like the matrix when mr. anderson swallows the mirror or whatever if anybody knows what I am talking about. can anybody give me ideas or tips? thanks

[se.audio]

Stutter will be achieved with abrupt cuts and repetitions of parts of words with small gaps in between.

I'd say the matrix effect you're talking about would be achieved by time stretching a word really far out and then applying a slow pitch shift up over the lot (AIR frequency shifter would be perfect for that).

Hope that helps...

[Julia B]

I may be wrong, but I thought I saw that Izotope has a plug for that.

[nerhal]

I figured doing it manually could work but would rather use a plugin. thanks to all and will try out things. thanks

[se.audio]

Yeah iZotope has just released Stutter edit, which would probably achieve the same effect after a bit of tweaking... but people were doing that efect long before that plug came out

[nst7]

People have been doing this for years, but it was very tedious. As mentioned, it was done by cutting out parts of the vocal.

Stutter Edit makes it much easier and faster, and allows you to randomly do it on the fly, and does a lot of other cool things for not much money.

[guitardom]

Since the early 90's this was achieved w an eventide h3000. It has an outright patch called stutter.

[flommer]

If you're talking about when he swallows the pill, then I kind of thought that sounded like a ring modulator... maybe combined with the stuttering effect (and some pitch shifting)?

It's been a while since I heard the movie..

[nerhal]

Originally Posted by flommer

If you're talking about when he swallows the pill, then I kind of thought that sounded like a ring modulator... maybe combined with the stuttering effect (and some pitch shifting)?

It's been a while since I heard the movie..

you know what yeah that did sound like that. I meant a stutter then haha will check out izatope they are cool plugins

[Dorian Green]

If you refer to the scene when Neo (Mr Anderson) was on the seat, just before he wakes up in the real world....
This effect is more than a stutter...For me it's more like a Bitcrucher applied with automation.
You can achieve that with the plugin Speakerphone from Audioease. With it you can achieve a virtual bitdepth drop from 24bit to...Let's say 4bit (it depends on how much degradation you need).