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.
Hey 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 :)
StephanosRex would be a good person to contact.
I suggest using Audacity.
In 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. :)
I 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!
Reverse 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.
