Custom Voice Effects

Customize digital and analog style voice effects for your community!

Sonoran Radio: Voice Effect Customization

Unless on the Pro version, communities are limited to one voice effect style.

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Available Voice Effects

Sonoran Radio lets you create custom voice effect profiles for user audio. These effects can be independently assigned to specific radio channels and emergency calls.

Expand the Vocoder, Clipping, Digital, Analog and Equalizer boxes for specific customizations.

By clicking the microphone icon and using the signal strength slider, you can hear how the effect will sound when users are talking.

Vocoder

The vocoder effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on in-game signal strength

The Vocoder voice effect simulates a modern P25-style radio compression using an AMBE-like encoding approach, commonly heard in proprietary digital radio systems. It’s ideal for communities seeking realistic conditions and authentic downsides.

When enabled, audio is routed through a vocoder for encoding and decoding before broadcast, causing a slight transmission delay.

The vocoder has optional bitrates of 3200, 2400, 1600, 1400, 1300, 1200, 700 and 450 bit/s. While the suggested bitrate is 2400, the bitrate can be increased for "less effect" or increased for "more effect".

It is recommended to use the clipping voice effect in addition to the vocoder to have in-game signal strength impact the transmission quality.

Clipping

The clipping voice effect mutes or "clips" audio intermittently based on in-game signal strength. As the signal weakens, more audio is cut, making transmissions increasingly difficult to understand.

Digital

The digital voice effect applies bitrate compression to the audio, causing it to sound increasingly robotic and harder to understand as signal quality decreases.

Analog

The analog voice effect adds static and scratchiness to the audio, making it sound progressively fuzzier and less clear as signal quality deteriorates.

Equalizer (EQ)

This EQ effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on in-game signal strength

The equalizer effect allows you to boost or reduce frequencies in the high, mid, and low ranges.

Tip: For a "tin can" effect, increase the mid frequencies while reducing the low and high ranges.

Applying the Voice Effect

To Radio Channels

In the channel editor, you can select the desired voice effect. This voice effect will apply to anyone talking in that channel.

Sonoran Radio: Channel Voice Effect

To Emergency Calls

To apply a custom voice effect for emergency phone calls, toggle the phone icon in the voice effect tab.

Note: If no custom voice effect is selected for emergency calls, a default "tin can" EQ effect will be applied.

Sonoran Radio: Emergency Call Voice Effect Selection