Sound Design Tutorial: Making Monster Voices
Why Sound Design Stack Exchange recommends it
Sound Design Stack Exchange users link it as the go-to example of using a vocoder to turn their own voice into a monster vocal.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2012 to 2018.
What it is
A roughly three-minute tutorial by Jim Stout for DesigningSound.org on making monster voices. It shows a sound design technique that uses a vocoder, with the creator's own voice as the modulator and animal or other sounds as the carrier.
What people said
Recommends Skarik · 2012-07 · Sound Design Stack Exchange · on “Emotional Monster Voices”
This classic Jim Stout tutorial [this video] should be a great help; using your own voice as the carrier signal for a vocoder seems like the way to go with this. Use this technique to manipulate a mix of animal noises and, as the others have suggested, just let loose and have fun!
Recommends JustinMacleod84user1565590 · 2018-02 · Sound Design Stack Exchange · on “Need tiger growls and roars”
Do you snore, know someone who does or have access to sample libraries of snoring? If you pitch a snore down, it can sound very animalistic...so I've heard anyway :) They sound more like growls than roars, but could easily be used as layers in a roar. I recorded mysel...I mean my good friend gave me some recordings just like that, 96 24, which I think work rather well. PM me if they'd be useful to you. As for other tips, I saw a really good Youtube video where someone used a vocoder to articulate a monster sound. Reformer by Krotos is free and comes with a free Black Leopard library, which shapes itself to whatever audio you feed it. I don't know quite how it works and apparently it uses AI,
Cites Tom · 2012-04 · Sound Design Stack Exchange · on “Vocoder-Modulating carrier without vocoding it”
hello, im looking to use a vocoder to create a monster/demonic vocal. I have sampled the sound of a roaring fire and im looking to place a vocoder on the track, modulating it with my voice so the vocal articulates the fire sample, much in the same vein as this video : [this video] Now im using Logic and Ableton. I know how to set it up, but im having difficulty minimising the filtered vocoding effect. It sounds like its being played underwater and doesnt sound clean and i was wondering if anyone has any advice? many thanks Tom
Cites Zuzia · 2013-03 · Sound Design Stack Exchange · on “Monster Sound Design”
Howdy:) I would love to find out how to set up Stout's [this video] method for monster sound design presented in the video, into Logic 8. Warmth, Zuzia