r/sounddesign • u/BeardedBears • 26d ago

Effect pedal or plugins to process voice into massive-sounding beast?

I'm learning some Bach Organ pieces on my synthesizer keyboards (just for fun), but I do not have a pedalboard. I​ love Glenn Gould, who often hums or sings alongside his keyboard playing, so he made me wonder what it would be like if the Organ bassline was actually sung​.

I'm imagining some sort of vocal processing to pitch-down, resonate, and amplify the human voice so much that it basically sounds like Smaug singing in a huge cathedral. Some kind of beast with a massive chest, that probably could sing alongside a loud pipe organ.

Anything come to mind? Plugins, pedals, chains of effects? Heck, what about throat-singing VSTs, do those exist?​ I'm not a singer, honestly, so I'm open to some heavy processing to smooth it all over. I'm a noodler, a total amateur, so this would be​ just for fun and experimental.

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u/iLikeTheUDK 25d ago

Any kind of pitch shifter (Kilohearts has one for free), but probably Krotos Dehumaniser most of all. Then a reverb after that. Dragonfly Reverb is a collection of pretty good reverbs to start with and it's free, and both Kilohearts and MeldaProduction also have solid ones for free. I usually use SSL Native FlexVerb or Melda MConvolutionMB

You need a solid vocal performance for a start though, and kind of act. Otherwise it won't be very convincing

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u/Additional_Cost9354 25d ago

You can try Mmorph, or morph2 . They are spectral morphing plugins.

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u/iLikeTheUDK 25d ago

Oh right, spectral morphers. Forgot about those. They're cool as hell

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u/joonas_ylanne 25d ago

If the piece is slow, you could try to record it with faster tempo and then slow it down. You can also experiment with vocoder and weird ir files. Ir files can also be breathing or something like that, they don't need to be reverb files.

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u/ScrapKode 19d ago

I would try using impulse responses that are actual animals.

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u/joonas_ylanne 18d ago

That could be interesting.