I contacted the voice actor himself but he's under a NDA with Riot and asked on other boards with no luck. So here I am. Hopefully Riot will be nice enough to answer themselves but it's fine and understandable if not. I've always been a fan of their voice effects.
Anyone know how to best accomplish this voice effect? Google brought up nothing.
RiotUtora4 votesHey there Mimi! Blitzcrank is an older champion and I'm not even sure if his sound designer is at Riot anymore - but I can give you a few small tidbits of info that'll point you in the right direction.
The first part is the actual recording of the voice. The actor doing Blitz read the lines in a very straight mono tone voice. Very little dynamics and fluctuation in the voice itself.
The second part is an audio effect called a vocoder. This was used to get that robot like sound.
You take the vocoded voice and the recorded voice and mix them together and you're on your way to getting the sound of a robot :)
TopGallant1 votesIs there any possible way we can get some insight on how you guys do the Shadow Isles Champs voices? It's so cool! Thresh and Hecarim give me goosebumps.
RiotUtora1 votesI've never worked on a Shadow Isles champ - but I can tell you one of the secrets is reverse reverb.
Thresh Outta Fux2 votesStephanosRex would be a good person to contact.
I suggest using Audacity.
Sir Potato2 votesIn my decade plus of experience with dozens of gaming companies, you were the first to respond to a basic question like this.
Guess you guys are a cut above the rest. :)
RiotUtora2 votesRito Audio OP!
TopGallant2 votesI did a little more research into it and it definitely sounds very cool after some messing around. I assume for a champion like Thresh the initial voice clip was lowered a few pitches unless the voice actors voice is just that bass-y. I'm still relatively amateur with Fruity Loops, I've only really made music with it but I'm interested in sound editing and Thresh has been my favorite champion since I saw him so trying to figure out how his voice was produced, which is such a big part of his character and his personality has been a bit hard just searching around. I'm glad I could get some insight into it from you Utora. It means a lot! Any more info you could provide would be amazing!
TopGallant1 votesReverse reverb? Okay, anything helps! I don't have any software but is that relatively easy to apply over spoken words in sound editing software? I've only ever use fruity loops or audacity.
RiotUtora1 votesI'm not sure what audacity has bundled with it these days. But you could definitely try this in fruity loops -
Take a recording of a voice clip and apply a reverb to it with a long tail. Render that clip out. Then Reverse it Then take that clip and mix it back with the non-reversed clip.
You can also try this:
Take a voice clip - reverse it. Apply reverb to the reversed voice clip. Render it out Now reverse it again.
Lots of cool and different things you can do with these two examples here.
Special Olympian1 votesOk. That is a cool idea. I help a buddy out with the audio for an online show but wanted more dynamic and different voices for a while. This will help out a ton! Thank you!!