There’s this effect that I’ve heard in a couple of songs. The best way that I can describe it is the way that some video game characters talk (especially animal crossing) where they’re speaking gibberish but it also sounds robotic somehow.

Two songs with an example of this sound:

My Head Hurts -strxwberrymilk

Sunshine Recorder -Boards of Canada

For the first one, the sound I’m talking about comes in at about 1:30, and for the second it comes in at about 2:50.

Really interested in recreating this sound. Any ideas as to how to achieve this are welcome.

Edit: found the sound I was looking for. It’s called glitch: https://illformed.org/

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’ve never made this specific effect before, but it kind of sounds like…

    First, they ran the vocals through a telephone eq filter

    Then there’s either going to be a glitch effect on the vocals, or maybe there’s some sort of fade that is connected to a trigger so that they can get the rapid cutout of the vocals.

    There used to be this really great free plugin that was a VST that added randomized glitch effects to whatever track you played it on and I couldn’t tell you the name of it, I just, I remember it being “glitch 1.3”, and it had made sounds similar to these, Which is why I’m thinking glitch effect, but I don’t know who made the glitch VST or where you can find it now.

    I think on the StrxwberryMilk one, they then actually put an echo effect over the clipped vocals afterwards