Sni9er
Active Hunter
Morning Gents
I wanted to share my experience so far setting up my Voice Changer, Standing on the shoulders of Fett's who have gone before me (DeathProof to name but one)
It started when a buddy of mine knew i was on the hunt for an old iPhone to try out the app he gave me his 3GS which i later learned unfortunately is incompatible with the app so anyway here is my list of Gear you'll need to set yourself up and a rough cost:
£20 Aker 1505 - This needs no introduction to most of you i'm quite sure, it's a great 12W Voice amp that's pretty cheap to get I paid £20 on Amazon UK and it came with a charger, UK adaptor, Line in cable and a Mic
£0 - Mic 3.5mm
£0 - Line In Cable 3.5mm
£4.64 - Y Headset Splitter - This will require some modification for durable troop use as i will explain later
£6.99 - Voice Synth Pro App - Pro app required for background audio
So as i mentioned earlier i couldn't run the app on the 3GS my friend was very kind to offer me his 4S on the proviso that if his iPhone 5 broke hey could have it back haha, either way i only intend to use it on troops
so i set up the app and set about making my voice profile, after getting a great starting block from DeathProof i made my own additions, listening to the recordings of fett on the film, i noted he was certainly compressed similarly to telecom/radio compression so using the apps 24 band EQ I ran the Telecom EQ Preset and adjusted the range slightly
this gave me a pretty great profile. so off to my first troop i went, excited to run my first troop with my new Fett and my Voice Changer but on the day disaster struck plugging in the splitter resulted in an ear destroying feedback loop that i could not solve on the day, i was to put it lightly Gutted!
When i got back i looked closely on the app and noticed it was still preferring the built-in mic even though for days it had worked flawlessly, so i searched around and found it's a common issue to have strange issues with non apple Jack/TRRS sockets i checked the tolerances and was sure everything was in spec then it hit me .. the input must be isolated (on the image below you can see a small black isolating black plastic ring between the jack input and the rest of the chassis
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on all iphone jack you'll notice the sleeve and the base of the jack are plastic, now compare that with 99% of all other jacks and we have a difference, on close inspection of the Jack input on the phone you can see a small black plastic isolation ring that separates the jack from the rest of the case so my jack was shorting on the case, and seemingly this problem that has plagued many third party apply accessories could be easily mitigated with some insulation
If i cared more for apple i'd report the issue on the apple forums and make a big splash but TBH i'm not Apples biggest fan but if this can help out my Fellow TDH buddies I'm glad to share the knowledge
this is what i found
Without insulation (see input mic on app, bottom left)
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with Insulation (satin gift tape for now haha)
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So anyway that's what I've found i will share an example of my profile later this evening and will happily send it to any Fetters out there !
many thanks to those who have gone before me gave me the idea & to Deathproof for his great starting point
not bad for £30 total
View attachment cM6yOMu.jpg
View attachment hcjwr8M.jpg
View attachment g6Y5XoZ.jpg
I wanted to share my experience so far setting up my Voice Changer, Standing on the shoulders of Fett's who have gone before me (DeathProof to name but one)
It started when a buddy of mine knew i was on the hunt for an old iPhone to try out the app he gave me his 3GS which i later learned unfortunately is incompatible with the app so anyway here is my list of Gear you'll need to set yourself up and a rough cost:
£20 Aker 1505 - This needs no introduction to most of you i'm quite sure, it's a great 12W Voice amp that's pretty cheap to get I paid £20 on Amazon UK and it came with a charger, UK adaptor, Line in cable and a Mic
£0 - Mic 3.5mm
£0 - Line In Cable 3.5mm
£4.64 - Y Headset Splitter - This will require some modification for durable troop use as i will explain later
£6.99 - Voice Synth Pro App - Pro app required for background audio
So as i mentioned earlier i couldn't run the app on the 3GS my friend was very kind to offer me his 4S on the proviso that if his iPhone 5 broke hey could have it back haha, either way i only intend to use it on troops
so i set up the app and set about making my voice profile, after getting a great starting block from DeathProof i made my own additions, listening to the recordings of fett on the film, i noted he was certainly compressed similarly to telecom/radio compression so using the apps 24 band EQ I ran the Telecom EQ Preset and adjusted the range slightly
this gave me a pretty great profile. so off to my first troop i went, excited to run my first troop with my new Fett and my Voice Changer but on the day disaster struck plugging in the splitter resulted in an ear destroying feedback loop that i could not solve on the day, i was to put it lightly Gutted!
When i got back i looked closely on the app and noticed it was still preferring the built-in mic even though for days it had worked flawlessly, so i searched around and found it's a common issue to have strange issues with non apple Jack/TRRS sockets i checked the tolerances and was sure everything was in spec then it hit me .. the input must be isolated (on the image below you can see a small black isolating black plastic ring between the jack input and the rest of the chassis
View attachment g6Y5XoZ.jpg
on all iphone jack you'll notice the sleeve and the base of the jack are plastic, now compare that with 99% of all other jacks and we have a difference, on close inspection of the Jack input on the phone you can see a small black plastic isolation ring that separates the jack from the rest of the case so my jack was shorting on the case, and seemingly this problem that has plagued many third party apply accessories could be easily mitigated with some insulation
If i cared more for apple i'd report the issue on the apple forums and make a big splash but TBH i'm not Apples biggest fan but if this can help out my Fellow TDH buddies I'm glad to share the knowledge
this is what i found
Without insulation (see input mic on app, bottom left)
View attachment cM6yOMu.jpg
with Insulation (satin gift tape for now haha)
View attachment hcjwr8M.jpg
So anyway that's what I've found i will share an example of my profile later this evening and will happily send it to any Fetters out there !
many thanks to those who have gone before me gave me the idea & to Deathproof for his great starting point
not bad for £30 total
View attachment cM6yOMu.jpg
View attachment hcjwr8M.jpg
View attachment g6Y5XoZ.jpg
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