How do I make my audio sound like crap? - Developers

Hello Facepunch, This is definitely a weird question for me to ask. So I'll tell you why. I am making bots for GMOD, and am giving them pre-recorded phrases to say in response to events. My code emulates the button being pressed, to make it look like a player is talking. Then it plays the sound client side. The thing is, my quality is too good. Does anyone know how I can distort and compress the audio to make it more "authentic" to the crappy DSL optimized compression we have all come to know and love in the Source Engine? As a side note, I have Reason 8. Unless ya'll know a better program for distortion. Please help!

Call me stupid ( but I'm not a sound guy ) - get a friend to play them down his mic and record the output using FRAPS/ShadowPlay etc. Serious. Unless anyone can do it in editing.

[QUOTE=Semajnad;50163447]Call me stupid ( but I'm not a sound guy ) - get a friend to play them down his mic and record the output using FRAPS/ShadowPlay etc. Serious. Unless anyone can do it in editing.[/QUOTE] I know the program Audacity has noise and signal generators, and it's free. I'm not familiar with Reason 8 but I'd imagine it has the same.

Usually if you remove some of the treble it sounds a bit worse

[QUOTE=solid_jake;50163461]I know the program Audacity has noise and signal generators, and it's free. I'm not familiar with Reason 8 but I'd imagine it has the same.[/QUOTE] Audacity would definitely be something you should look into, you can make some pretty weird sounds with it's effects.

Seriously... my solution :P It'll sound most like gmod to be fair.

Then again, there's nothing wrong with having good quality sound Also, to elaborate on the previous thing I said, you could remove a bit of treble by using an FFT filter, or by deleting the top part of the audio's Spectral Frequency Display, but those might not be in Reason 8

Hmm. Didn't think Audacity could do that. I will try Audacity and piping my audio through a mic. I will leave this open to additional suggestions.

[QUOTE=BlueMustache;50163559]Hmm. Didn't think Audacity could do that. I will try Audacity and piping my audio through a mic. I will leave this open to additional suggestions.[/QUOTE] FYI: Audacity can record sound directly from your speakers without any physical cables.

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[QUOTE=MexicanR;50163576]FYI: Audacity can record sound directly from your speakers without any physical cables.[/QUOTE] -snip- EDIT: I'm an idiot. I have like 3 monitors with AUX cords.

[QUOTE=MPan1;50163578]I don't think it can, but Adobe Audition can :v: Try going into Audacity and doing Effect/Equalization, and then dragging the right part of the display really low[/QUOTE] It can using Windows WASAPI and then you set your microphone to your speakers with '(loopback)' added to the end. [IMG]https://i.gyazo.com/300ad036e33c0bd080ba4e5d2a9f06a0.png[/IMG]

Try going into Audacity and doing Effect/Equalization, and then dragging the right part of the display really low, so it kinda looks like this: [t]http://i.imgur.com/4YqFA7H.jpg[/t] [editline]19th April 2016[/editline] That makes it sound a bit worse but if you play around with it for a bit I'm sure you can make it sound much worse

[QUOTE=Semajnad;50163447]Call me stupid [/QUOTE] Stupid

Wow. The presets are great. In all my years, I never noticed that effect. Treble cut did it! Thanks everyone!

[QUOTE=Tupac;50164171]Stupid[/QUOTE] Well played.