BullHorn Effect

Borrow a bull horn....

Make a sine-sweep of it and create an impulse response....then you have a space-designer bull-horn


Check out "Space Designer Tutorial Thread"....that is what space designer is for

SvK

Borrow a bull horn....

Make a sine-sweep of it and create an impulse
response....then you have a space-designer bull-horn

Wow, that's the hard way! Just open an eq, make a steep bandpass from 800 Hz to 2800 Hz, then put a hard limiter after that and really squash it. Voila, instant bullhorn. Sprinkle reverb and maybe a little distortion to taste.

RANDALL,

yeah but my Bull Horn will sound "95%" like a bullhorn....

yours?

maybe 25%


get into IRs....it's not that much trouble and the results are breath-taking!

SvK

yours?

maybe 25%

Probably more like 65 to 75% to the casual listener. Yes, if I wanted to emulate the sound of a particular bullhorn, then I might consider using an IR. But to go to all that trouble just for a "bullhorn" sound........

Actually I've been "into" IR's since the early eighties. After the first articles appeared in the AES journal it was introduced as "auralization" in the then cutting edge SysId software. Sonic Foundry picked it up later in the eighties with the Acoustic Modeler plugin, then Sek'D, etc. and finally 20 years later, Logic gets it. Works about the same as the old stuff did.

RANDAL,

What trouble?

a) RUN a sine-wave through aset of headphones, and hold those up against the bullhorn.

b)Record that bullhorn-sweep through mike

c)De-convolve

your done!

much quicker than fiddling EQ/Dist

svk

The "trouble" is in "aquiring" the bullhorn. If you had easy access to one, there would be no need to emulate its transfer function. Just record through it. At that point, yes, you could take an IR but the results wouldn't be as good. Besides, you'd still have to throw a hard limiter on it as the IR does not characterize the dynamics attributes of the bullhorn, (a major part of a bullhorns sound) only its frequency domain. So, after feeding your hifi speech through it, the full dynamics of the original speech (within that limited band) would still be there.

Randall,

I'm impressed ...I to am aware of the over-limit effect neccessary to emulate a bull-horn....

btw........I have a bull-horn IR I made......for a video-game announcer effect.....worx like a charm

AND ....after I process all dialog through the Bull-Horn IR...I "1176" the **** out of it 😉

SvK