Syntrillium Backup Forums :: View topic - help with st-t-t-uttering fx

Paul C · Posts: 1

It seems this effect has become the new prod trick for promos. I can sample the word, or parts of it, but it doesn't seem to have the same sound. It almost sounds like a held note only using a vocal sample. Help please

gregg · Posts: 23

Actually stuttering was big in the 80's but is still effective when used in the right situation. Try sampling a very small portion of the letter of the word you want to stutter. You'll have to play with the number of times you loop it and with the length of the sample. If it sounds like a held note it might be too long of a sample.

Phil Mac · Posts: 5

Try highlighting a small section of the start, copy to new, reverse it, generate about 10 sec silence after it. Use echo (play with setting to create desired effect), then reverse it all again. Echo therefore comes first.

Simple, but effective - and loads of different effects depending on the echo used.

Syntrillium M.D. · Location: USA Posts: 5124

Hi all - a way that I like to do this is to take a sample of a word, say 'ROCK'. Highlight the sample, and take note of the length, say 300ms. Now, highlight a section that is say HALF the length, or even better, 1/4 the length. Copy that, and paste it several times (this is very easy in MT view, but just as effective in Edit View). Now, you can paste them together to get that extreme stutter. If you want to do the nowadays, start long then get shorter and shorter, just keep shortening the length of the highlighted section.

---Syntrillium Support

Bruce · Posts: 87

It's easier to do this on a sampler, but there's a neat trick you can do with Cool Edit (either flavor) and the cue list.

Load your VO track and find the keywords where you want to trigger the stutter. Highlight the file at the beginning of the first stutter word and extend the region till the beginning of the next stutter word. Then add the highlighted region to the cue list. In the "label" box type in "KEY A".

Repeat the process beginning at the next stutter word and ending just before the third stutter word, but this time type in "KEY S" in the "Label" box. Keep doing this adding the next letter on the keyboard to label the next region beginning with the next stutter word.

You can now play the file and stutter the stutter words as many times as you want by hitting the associated key. This gives you the opportunity to try different versions and hear what it's going to sound like in real time. Eventually you'll record what you perform live and process the resultant wav file afterwards.

You've got plenty of good suggestions here, but give this a go. It's fun.

-- Bruce

gregg · Posts: 23

Thanks Phil...I've done the reverse echo (actually reverse reverb) thing before but never thought to apply it to a stutter. Will try that on a project this afternoon.