An obvious application for Speakerphone is television- and lm audio Post
production. Speakerphone will give you all the walkie talkies, distant transistor
radios, upstairs TV sets, bullhorns and cell phones you’ll ever need. It will add
dial tones, operators and static, and you can select from a wealth of environments
on either the caller’s or receiver’s end. It’ll make your voice sound through a
distorted megaphone suspended from the ceiling of a station hall, while mixing
in passenger’s footsteps around you. And you can simply drag anything from the
sample bay right to your Pro Tools track and vise versa.
But there are also many uses for Speakerphone in music production. You want
to make the artist rap through a cell phone? Rather than pull up an eq and some
distortion, why not make him rap through an actual cell phone? Perhaps in an
idling car, at a gas station ? You want your mix to start out on a gramophone ?
Choose one of the antique gramophones at hand. Tweak the ticks and crackle
controls, trigger stylus up and down samples, and if you prefer an off-center hole
in the record then just put it there. Then give the Wet-Dry Slider a kick and have
Speakerphone smoothly morph from gramophone to neutral by interpolation of
all its parameters. Plus there’s a host of classic guitar amps, complete with tailor
made distortion, spring reverbs, and everything else to build guitar tone like
you’ve never heard from a plug-in.
The end-all speaker simulator plug-in, with a host of environments to put them in.
Speakerphone is speakers done the Audio Ease way.
Speakerphone 2
Just over a year has passed since the introduction of Speakerphone. Speakerphone
has quickly become a household name in audio post production and music stu-
dios. Speakerphone version 2 has a new cleaner look, new features, many newly
sampled guitar amp cabinets, antique phones, toys, answering machines and
megaphones. Added is a microphone simulation module that hosts microphones
ranging from Royers to toy mics.
Among the new modules in Speakerphone 2 is one that’s called ‘Coverup’.
Coverup can place any sound inside tin cans, cardboard boxes, under blankets or
in the closed trunk of a car. Speakerphone 2 adds presets that switch via automa-
tion, an extensive LFO and envelope following section for controlling virtually all
parameters of Speakerphone, and a Leslie speaker module.
