I often like to drop the pitch on an artists voice for emphasis on certain words. I currently just use the Pitch Shift funtion in Cubase and lower about 6 semi tones. This quite often makes the voice muffled. Any ideas on how to do this with without sacrificing clarity?

 

to reduce the sound, i work with sound alot, one of the most important things to do is to do with the control for the sound ITSELF, in and of itself..with emphasis not just with the volume but over and above.

 

Please excuse this weird ass comment but, I keep reading the question and , for some strange reason it seems to say, "How do I cheat on my wife without commit-ing Adultry.??????????? sorry just home from work really tired...

 

Try QuikQuak Pitchwheel or Zplane Elastique. Those are VSTs that allow independant pitch and formant control. The Cubase one might be able to hold formants constant while changing pitch, idunno.

EDIT: Izotope nectar might be able to do it, too.

 

Half an octave is kinda pushing it if you want it to sound perfect imo.
Tried Autotune?

 

The other way you could it is take the vocal out and use audacity wave lab but If im right you can link a wave editor in cubase.Audacity lets you change tone and pitch and keeping tempo. among many other cheats *yes* (joke)

 

Yeah and just cut the section you want out and place back in.

 

Melodyne

 

Melodyne You can change octave,Pitch & or tone best kept secret! *yes*

 

Or use a Dssrrr plugin or limiter...

 

Thanks guys, I think Autotune has a "throat length" knob that deepens voices a bit.. any idea which other plugins can also do this?

 

To lower voice and mantain fidelity in dB use compressing techniques. Izotope Nectar is the way to go.

To lower a pitch in one word use Melodyne or FL Studio Newtone. It might be good idea to slice just the word from a hook and process this word differently.

QuikQuak Pitchwheel and Zplane Elastique are nice and easy real-time VST effects for pitch manipulation.

The fastest way for me would be: cut the word from a hook and process it in different FX channel. Add QuikQuak Pitchwheel to this channel and automate the pitch.