How to make a really 'evil' voice

[JonWormwood]

Something out of a horror movie, just really deep and evil. I've fucked around with pitch and the basic cubase plugs but I'm not getting anywhere but cheesy shit

 

[Seth Munson]

I have heard awesome results with the throat modulator thing that Antares has

 

[JeffTD]

^^that, pitch shifting, reverse reverbs and swells, maxxbass, etc.

 

[ahjteam]

just sound evil in the first place.

 

[Sickan]

Pitch the voice +3 and -3 semitones and use GGrain.

 

[Fama]

I've used GGrain to get that sort of a devilish voice. Works well for that.

 

[JonWormwood]

Thank you gents. i already have ggrain too, never used it

Yeah ggrain is amazing.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I haven't tried this myself, but give it a shot: http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/X-Orcism/index.asp

 

[JonWormwood]

I haven't tried this myself, but give it a shot: http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/X-Orcism/index.asp

Fuck yes, this look promising

 

[kev]

haha that thing isnt bad, its a bit of a joke though just for a quick bit of fun lol

 

[DestroyTheColossus]

This wont get you all the way there on its own, but pitch shifting a minor second (+ or -1 semitones) gets that really dissonant/ creepy sound that will work well within the layers.

 

[NSGUITAR]

being the SSL fanatic I am, I decided to try out the new Halloween plug.. It's pretty brutal.


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/scaryKittie.mp3

 

[Jaymz]

being the SSL fanatic I am, I decided to try out the new Halloween plug.. It's pretty brutal.


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/scaryKittie.mp3

LOL!!!!

 

[ahjteam]

being the SSL fanatic I am, I decided to try out the old as fuck Halloween plug..

fixed. It was released like a few years ago.

 

[NSGUITAR]

fixed. It was released like a few years ago.

k

 

[egan.]

I'm glad aj is here to correct these critical mistakes.
Jeff listed the all of the classic tools.

 

[timislegend]

grmtools

 

[The Unavoidable]

Holy crap, GGrain is AWESOME

 

[The Unavoidable]

After working with this a few minutes I still prefer working with individual tracks and pitch shifting them manually. Get a good performance of someone saying something really evil in a confident, aggresive tone and then copy it to several tracks and pitch shift them all down a few steps. The key is shifting them all with at least 1 steps variation, so that you get some dissonance going which really brings the br00tz. Then go crazy with compression, reverb and chorus to taste. I like female voices better for this though, since they tend to sound more crazy and haunting.



EDIT: Did a little test with this technique, doing an improvised paraphrase of the Evil Dead sample everyone uses: http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=9800639&q=hi&newref=1

 

[arv_foh]

I have heard awesome results with the throat modulator thing that Antares has

are you talking about avox mutator, that shit is fun to mess around with for stuff like this