Seth Skywalker
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So I will be making myself a Sith costume soon sometime, and will put a voice changer in the helmet/mask. Anyone have any experience with voice changer from aurduino? Any help would be appreciated. 
Anyone try the arduino wave shield voice changer?
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xl97
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Yep..
I posted on here a few times.. for B v S voice changer.. as well in a Vader thread.
It 'ok'...
I would say before you do ANYTHING research about the volume hack. The stock WaveShield from Adafruit is NOT that loud IMHO at least...
I made a 'customer' version.. where I used all SMD parts.. and merged the Arduino and WaveShield together in one very tiny board. (as the default Arduino Uno and Waveshield take up some serious space! LOL)
pics to compare:
http://dmstudios.net/misc/scab_assembly/all-in-one_2.jpg
http://dmstudios.net/misc/scab_assembly/all-in-one_1.jpg
You can tweak the pitch.. but much more... They have a video of in use on the Adafruit site.. (even has a vader costume on!)
I posted on here a few times.. for B v S voice changer.. as well in a Vader thread.
It 'ok'...
I would say before you do ANYTHING research about the volume hack. The stock WaveShield from Adafruit is NOT that loud IMHO at least...
I made a 'customer' version.. where I used all SMD parts.. and merged the Arduino and WaveShield together in one very tiny board. (as the default Arduino Uno and Waveshield take up some serious space! LOL)
pics to compare:
http://dmstudios.net/misc/scab_assembly/all-in-one_2.jpg
http://dmstudios.net/misc/scab_assembly/all-in-one_1.jpg
You can tweak the pitch.. but much more... They have a video of in use on the Adafruit site.. (even has a vader costume on!)
questionstar
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I won't be as helpful as I wish I could be because I started one and never finished it D: I got distracted by 23000 other projects. But! I reccomend it anyway since its affordable and everything adafruit has tons of documentation and support (theyve got forums and a discord channel) and the shield itself was very easy to assemble.
I also used a sparkfun arduino pro (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10915) instead of an uno since shields still fit but makes the project much flatter and compact.
One of the reasons I didnt finish is because I was being really picky about the mic and speaker setup for specific costume so I'm going to revisit when I have time to mess around with different amps/speakers that are costume friendly. That is the part of the tutorial that is a litlle more... open ended imho since you will have to tailor it for specific needs.
Sorry I can't give you any good info on how it actually SOUNDS. But its still the most affordable diy option I've found other than the velleman voice changer kit (which does NOT have good sound quality but I use it for garbly robot noises so thats totally ok for that situation).
Hope this is kinda helpful
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I also used a sparkfun arduino pro (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10915) instead of an uno since shields still fit but makes the project much flatter and compact.
One of the reasons I didnt finish is because I was being really picky about the mic and speaker setup for specific costume so I'm going to revisit when I have time to mess around with different amps/speakers that are costume friendly. That is the part of the tutorial that is a litlle more... open ended imho since you will have to tailor it for specific needs.
Sorry I can't give you any good info on how it actually SOUNDS. But its still the most affordable diy option I've found other than the velleman voice changer kit (which does NOT have good sound quality but I use it for garbly robot noises so thats totally ok for that situation).
Hope this is kinda helpful
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xl97
Master Member
You can check out some of the links I posted on the actual use/sound....etc..
Question:
Wont the Sparkfun "Pro" board still need some female headers if you are going to 'stack' the shield on top?
Nice that is comes without... and its a 'minimal' design.. bet when used with shields.. it is really any smaller in height?
(just curious!)
If anyone needs help putting together a kit.. I can do it.. only takes like 15 minutes or so..
Question:
Wont the Sparkfun "Pro" board still need some female headers if you are going to 'stack' the shield on top?
Nice that is comes without... and its a 'minimal' design.. bet when used with shields.. it is really any smaller in height?
(just curious!)
If anyone needs help putting together a kit.. I can do it.. only takes like 15 minutes or so..
Seth Skywalker
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I'm not that worried about the space. I'll mange to hide it some where. Up to what extent can you change your voice with the voice changer? Would you recommend it or not ( since yo said it was ok)? Any better recommendations?
Oh and thanks for the offer, but I will want to build it all myself. I enjoy soldering quite a bit.
xl97
Master Member
If you can solder.. then you'll have no problems! Its an easy kit.. and all through hole components.
Extent .... as to what? You can dial the pitch UP (like an Oompa Loompa voice)... or DOWN like a VADER voice.
You will turn the pot until you get a pitch you like.
I have some real voice changers off and on.. (like the ones with noise for storm troopers..etc)
They sound good... but are usually a TON more money.
A $5 Uno and a $20.00 WaveShield is more affordable.
Extent .... as to what? You can dial the pitch UP (like an Oompa Loompa voice)... or DOWN like a VADER voice.
You will turn the pot until you get a pitch you like.
I have some real voice changers off and on.. (like the ones with noise for storm troopers..etc)
They sound good... but are usually a TON more money.
A $5 Uno and a $20.00 WaveShield is more affordable.
Seth Skywalker
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Ok, thanks for the help xl97 and questionstar ! If anyone has a demo or found a better voice changer kit, please let me know!
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