recommendations for radio effect noise crackle

[BronzeEagle]

any recommendations on how to get the noise crackle effect into my voice files to sound like they're coming from off a radio but without the words at the bottom of the screen?  

[nominesine]

I usually put a real radio, tuned in between stations, close to the mic while recording. Or you can make a crackling effect by pressing a piece of paper to a ball close to the mic. There are hundreds of ways. Only limit is your imagination  ;D

[Sui]

I've heard a good way is to buy yourself a cheap walkie talkie set, and record the sounds through that (sounds crazy, but I've heard some pretty 'good' distortion effects come out of it ).

If you can get some software that will do it, even better. Find yourself a friendly sound engineer and twist their arm

[bored_onion]

look for and download a program called "audacity"

it lets you add white noise in radio transmissions and its free!

[Silencer]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[THobson]

Roxio comes with a sound editor that lets you add noise, clicks,hum and also reduce the bandwidth of the sound making it sound radio like.  It is not free.

I also use nominesine's method of recording a real radio then merging the voices in with it

[Artak]

GoldWave is a sound editor, player, recorder, and converter
for Windows.  You can use it to make sounds for website,
answering machine messages, or even record your own
CDs (when used with CD Recorder software).

Features:
  * Multiple resizable sound windows with time axis, amplitude
      axis, and "Overview" box.
  * Independent left/right channel editing and viewing
  * Detailed zoom to magnify to a sub-sample level for
     accurate editing
  * Vertical (amplitude) zooming
  * Direct editing with the mouse
  * Standard editing functions: undo, cut, copy, paste,
     trim, mix, delete
  * Fast 'Copy to' command for dividing a file into sections
  * Intelligent editing that automatically converts
     sampling rates, bits, and channels when copying and
     pasting to different file formats
  * Configurable storage: direct-to-disk or RAM
  * Tool bars for editing, zooming, opening files, and effects
  * Over 50 bitmapped tool buttons
  * Status bar with configurable time and range displays
  * Standard effects: echo, volume, reverse, envelope shaping,
     panning, filters, resample, transpose, doppler,
     dynamics, noise reduction, flange, parametric EQ,
     time warp, and more
  * Ability to save preset paramaters and shapes for effects
  * Independent and resizable Device Controls window with
     oscilloscopes, LED meters, and controls
      * Play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, record,
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      * Realtime amplitude, spectrum, spectrum bar, or
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      * User configurable play control
      * Configurable recording options: loop, countdown timer,
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     mu-Law, A-Law, ISDN A-Law, IEEE floating point,
     ASCII text, Dialogic ADPCM
  * Ability to set and describe reference/cue points
  * Expression evaluator for any type of sound generation
     and manipulation
  * Complete help on all commands
  * Shareware, with no features disabled!

[The-Architect]

Pinch an .ogg file from one of the campaign missions, then copy the static from the beginning or end of the file. then copy and paste until you've got a good length of it, being sure to iron out repeating annoyances. You'll see what I mean.

*Edit

Just checked. There is no background static on BIS files. Sit tight.

[The-Architect]

I made a sound pack for you. Its in the Pending section of the Ed depot.
Here is a link,

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/resource_view.php?id=752

[BronzeEagle]

http://www.hyperdynelabs.com/products_elec_scifiVoice.php

its a sci fi voice plug in.  they used it for freespace two, jedi knights and all those games.  its best to register it, because if unregistered and you own a copy of cool edit, the thing makes you wait ten seconds and you can only use it once.  if you go to use it a second time, it will countdown backwards to infinity and you'll have to control alt delete your way out of the program, restart and use it again so i suggest you get yourself a copy of cool edit any way possible, then pay to register this sci fi plugin.  It's amazing.  

[Sui]

Pinch an .ogg file from one of the campaign missions, then copy the static from the beginning or end of the file. then copy and paste until you've got a good length of it, being sure to iron out repeating annoyances. You'll see what I mean.

Sounds added to the cfgradio section of the description.ext automatically get a bit of static added in the background when they're played in game.

It's not very much though, and you should still crop the sound to make it sound like it's coming from a radio