I usually bandwidth limit something like you indicated, apply some distortion, then low pass it again to take the higher harmonics out. Sometimes I boost some midrange in there somewhere as well.

Some phone systems have a lot of compression/limiting on them.

Try to bandwidth between 950Hz and 1850Hz and then apply a lo-fi bit resolution to 8bit! Add if you think it's really necessary a saturation effort to it! Hope this helps!

leopoldolopes, post: 389831 wrote: apply a lo-fi bit resolution to 8bit!

Decreasing the word length (bit "rate") just raises the noise floor, and not in a way that sounds like a telephone.

fun topic, I'll chime in too.

I used to have a few old telephones here. We used the speakers out of them for effects. You could send the track out to something with a 2 or 3" speaker, use a stereo amp to power it and track that AD> DAW. I bet it would sound great.

You could also, track the vox bus via a headphone and call it a day. Hit solo, mic the headphone ...

To avoid a feedback loop , Mute the track you are recording. I do this all the time for hybrid tracking.

Cheerios mates. Lots of ways to make 'ugly.' I'll try some of these.

What would be the easiest, most effective way of adding some distortion in the digital realm that might sound like a telephone? Maybe one from a VST guitar/amp simulator?

Taa
Keith

bouldersound, post: 389838 wrote: Decreasing the word length (bit "rate") just raises the noise floor, and not in a way that sounds like a telephone.

We all know that! However the noise floor resulting from a 8 bit samplerate you're talking about could be one of the many characteristics that this person could be after! We are really in the guessing world you know! diddlydoo

We had a thread similar to this a few years back. Try mastering-for-voice-communications

You can experiment, but there is a nice dedicate tool from audio Ease.
http://www.audioeas… Speakerphone 2