Lo-fi radio effect

[Flemmigan]

I'm wondering if anyone has some good tricks or VSTs for achieving a lo-fi sort of radio effect. Filtering is obviously a part of it, but are there any good VSTs for getting crackles, radio tuning effects, and that sort of thing?

 

[tender_insanity]

Izotope Vinyl. Free
https://www.izotope.com/vinyl

 

[Flemmigan]

Thanks! I'll check it out.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I Pro Tools, one of the EQ or Channel Strip plugins has a preset called "Telephone" which is often used as a lo-fi or radio setting.

It's basically a mid spike with a wide "Q" at about 600hz. Hi's & Low's are cut a bit.

 

[thisiswhywefight]

yeah izotope vinyl rules for that kind of effect. It's hard to use it subtley though

 

[col]

Here's another one: Milli Vinylli VST

 

[Drew]

Izotope Vinyl. Free
https://www.izotope.com/vinyl

I LOVE that plugin. It doesn't work on a Mac in 64-bit, and it's not *really* a "radio" effect so much as a record/LP effect, but if you want that sound, it's awesome. Free, too.

This may or may not be a good production decision, but I started off an instrumental shred/melodic hard rock album with about a minute of fingerstyle slow blues played on my acoustic run through the '50s record simulator model on that, as an intro for a (much) heavier blues-based tune. It may or may not be an appropriate intro, but I cracked up so much the first time I listened back that I couldn't undo it.

 

[russmuller]

I got Cosmonaut Voice as part of a Pro Tools LE bundle many many years ago. I LOVE it for this kind of thing.

Otherwise I'd use something like Vinyl or Trash from Izotope.

 

[noUser01]

yeah izotope vinyl rules for that kind of effect. It's hard to use it subtley though

Put it on a bus instead and blend it in.

 

[thisiswhywefight]

good idea