Help! Effect on Voice!!!

[Jim O'Brien]

Hi Chaps, hope someone can help.

I'm currently working on an animation series (just vo recording at the moment)
In some of the episodes there is a character which is a T-rex. She is a female character played by a male actor.
He delivers a very deep tone which is nice, but also very damaging on his voice.
The client has asked me to make the voice sound deeper and more animal like with a more growly texture to it.

I have been playing some time and can obviously make the voice deeper by pitch shifting etc and also boosting the low freq with eq and such but I'm really struggling to add a more growly animal like texture to it.

Does anyone have any secret techniques or plugins that will make his voice sound more like a 100 ft tall growling lizard????

Thanks in advance for any...... i mean any ideas.


Regards Jim

[studiomusic]

Add in some lion roars.

[FajitaTone]

PurePitch by sound toys.

[Game Sound Design]

Prosoniq makes Morph which is excellent (may affect intelligibility though). Basically can morph two signal sources into one. They used to make the plug in available for PC and Mac but I think it's Mac only now, which may be fine for you.

[max howarth]

open his audio in melodyne. slip the pitch down but then drag the formants even lower. with the right voice this should make it really raspy.

[emf1138]

Vocoder with a lion or tiger growls to trigger under the dialog?