awepittance Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 I scoured the internet for a while last night and I was surprised that I still only found the same 2 plugins I've already been using for a few years. A reaktor AM radio emulation called cracklebox which was made in 2004, sounds alright but not realistic enough. Speakerphone is pretty awesome but i feel like it's AM/FM radio tuner is not up to par with what I want ,specifically something that very realistically emulates the sound of tuning something in on bad AM or shortwave radio reception. Is there anything out there for Max OSX that can do this? Anything that also emulates bad webcast transmissions is needed too, like a watery/low bit rate real-audio webcast or something. this is all for an upcoming performance on the 23rd of november and I'm nervous about using anymore than 1 Speakerphone for a live show, even 1 makes me nervous because it's very prone to crashing. If you can point me in the direction of something I can use I will happily send you a free tape of my new album or something. I'm in desperate need! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 found this one but the zip is missing and it looks windows only, kind of cool but what I'm looking for is more of a real-time effect not something you'd load wave files into. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6ITeyEs2OoM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 and this might be a long shot but if there is a fairly easy way to transmit something over AM, shortwave or FM I'm open to suggestions on how to do that as well, I'm on a short time clock though. Less interested in FM though, shortwave and AM tuning/modulation distortion are more the sound i'm trying to get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Am I right in thinking you can get these iPod broadcast things that would transmit a short distance to your car radio so you got wirelessly transmit whatever was playing on your mp3 player to your radio. EDIT: like this sort of thing - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhonny Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Am I right in thinking you can get these iPod broadcast things that would transmit a short distance to your car radio so you got wirelessly transmit whatever was playing on your mp3 player to your radio. EDIT: like this sort of thing - yeah just play some audio through one and tune into it with a radio. Record the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 I'll go try one of these. Anything like this for AM or shortwave? Something like this would be cool for an analog FM tuner, but still not ideal since FM doesn't have that nice AM/ring modulated distortion, nor does it also band pass the sound and put it in that classic frequency range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 BAM - http://www.tequipment.net/RamseyElectronicsAM1C.html EDIT: Damnit, it's discontinued - Though I'm sure if you lookup 'AM Radio Transmitter Kit' you can find a few existing ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 if I could find something like this that was guaranteed to work id plunk down the money for it. I just don't want to wait for a piece of vintage gear to arrive only to find out it's busted or takes some esoteric knowledge to set uphttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SONAR-2-meter-AM-radio-modle-CD-2-/281201133754 mcbpete thanks dude! I hate to come off as a totally lazy ass, but I wonder if one could find something like this that requires ZERO soldering... hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 I'm sure there must be AM transmitter kits that are pre-built. They'll be a little more expensive but not drastically so (probably like $10-$15 on top of the base kit of around $40) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 im finding a bunch of them on ebay, the built ones seem to be about $90 - $150, a little more fancy than this kit mind you but I've seen nothing as 'basic' as this already pre-built. Also there are a bunch of these Real-estate focused ones that are supposed to play 'positive messages' about a home that prospective buyers are looking at as they walk through it over an am radio, but they all look like they play tapes and don't take incoming audio. Those ones are cheap though around $30-40. Ideally i'd like to get something sort of designed for the effect and low-grade distortions and modulations you would get off a bad AM radio signal. I'm surprised no one has made a transmitter/reciever AM modulator eurorack module, or if they have I havent seen it. A lot of radio tuner CV controlled eurorack modules though, although mostly FM. I think Dave Wright of not breathing built an AM one himself, but it's not a transmitter, just a cv tuner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 and no other virtual effects? I'm kinda shocked there isn't anything out there tailor made for this besides Speakerphone. You would think a plugin that just did fucked up radio sounds would be very valuable for post production. But i guess if you wanted to you can easily re-create the sound with off-line processing, things like cross modulation/am modulation adding actual AM radio noise tuner recordings on top of it. This is all fine for a non live setting, i can live with that. But i need this for a live real-time processing setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 BAM - http://www.tequipment.net/RamseyElectronicsAM1C.html EDIT: Damnit, it's discontinued - Though I'm sure if you lookup 'AM Radio Transmitter Kit' you can find a few existing ones. Well i just bought 2 of these kits off Amazon, my soldering is piss poor wish me luck guys! I think this is going to work out pretty well. I'm using a Mackie mixer with 4 aux sends. I'm going to use each one as a mono send to go to 2 AM radio tranmitters, 1 FM radio transmitter, and 1 to speakerphone so i can take anything going into the mixer and mess it up with radio tuning. Now i just have to find a decent analog knob style am/fm fine tuner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aencre Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 there are a bunch of these Real-estate focused ones that are supposed to play 'positive messages' about a home that prospective buyers are looking at as they walk through it over an am radio Baffling concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 well, i just cancelled my amazon order because i found 2 on ebay after some digging that do exactly the same thing, pre-built for $45. One of them looks like a home-made deal that some guy sells custom on ebay, the other one was the 'happy home' demonstration unit, which turns out can take live input. But also you can record your own custom 5 minute message on it in a flash ram inside. Pretty weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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