Pro Tools Effects

[n3xus]

Hi all. I am looking for an plugin/effect that would create a "stutter" to be used on a vocal track, or any kind of track for that matter. A good example of what I am looking for can be found on "Star****ers Inc." from the band "Nine Inch Nails" If anyone can help me find that plugin, or let me know how its done or whatever it would be greatly appreciated. I am also looking for a plugin/effect that would digitally distort a signal, make it sound more digital than analog, if you dont understand what I'm talking about thats okay, I'm having a hard time describing what I want. Thank you all for your help.
-n3xus

[macr0w]

You can allways "slice" up a vocal to give it the "stutter" effect.

[IntelDoc]

n3,
All that you hear with that song is CUT UP TO ALL HELL. Try this.....

Put your vocal track to a grid, and just start randomly cutting out sections. Put the grid in 32nd notes to start, xoom in and just start deleting random sections. take parts and duplicate them for a few sections, then start cutting again. Then when you are all done, highlight the entire track and do a "Control F" and a cross fade the regions. It is a pretty easy effect and can be cool if done properly. Obviously the benefits of the grid is that you can literally cut a tempo out if desired.

Good luck,

- Doc

[MaKoRancid]

I think the easiest way to create a stutter effect would be to automate mute the track.

[IntelDoc]

Absolutely NOT!
MAn you would hear all kinds of pops doing that. Maybe to get the beat, but I would never do that. Actually, I would automate the volume of a track before I would ever use the MUTE feature. Just sounds bad from everything I have tried.

Sorry man, not with ya on that one.

_ Doc

[Third Eye Studios]

Acid 5.0 is great for stutter effects. It basically does what Doc says, puts it on a grid an starts chopping out sections. Also, I've had good results by putting a gate on the track I want to stutter, and side-chaining the gate to a click track set to a really fast tempo.

For the distorion effects you asked about, I would try the Digi Lo-Fi plug-in.

[Cliffy_Boy]

Hire a singer with a stutter. They're also cheaper i find.

[protein]

I thought you meant that cool stuttering effect you get from timestretching too much. I time compress and then time stretch speech samples and they sounds all helicoptery and psychadelic. It's a very 1990s uk drum and bass thing.

[IntelDoc]

That click sidechain thing is cool, but it is all to a click. Good if you want to double a tempo or such. The grid mode, cutup method is probably the easiest way.

The time stretch one is what they did for NEO's voice when he takes the pills at the first meeting with Morpheous. Cool effect, but sometimes sounds akward.

- Doc

[spkguitar]

I sometimes sidechain to an audio track with a kick sample (or other strong transient) copied into a specific beat. I had posted the process and an example here a long time ago.

DOC's method is down and dirty, quick and easy, but also leaves the edges of the wavs all raw (might be what you're going for in this case, but not always). With the gate/sidechain method, you have more control over how smooth or rough the 'chops' are.



Here's my old post (wow, that was a year ago?)