Ways to transform sounds?

Ways to transform sounds?

bart's picture

So, since I'm just a dabbler in audio, I though I'd open with a question I've been wondering about for a while.  It seems to me like you ought to be able to get a lot of good sound effects by recording real-world sounds and then changing them in various ways.  I know of a few things you can do to a sound, but I'd like to know more.  Here's what I've thought of:

  • Flanging
  • Phasing
  • Bit crunching (reducing the quality in various ways)
  • Reverb
  • Chorus
  • Panning
  • Equalization

Any others?  If, for instance, I wanted to take a voice sample and make it sound like it's coming from a walkie-talkie, how would I go about that?