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Custom Voice Effects

Customize transmission voice effects for your community, or local user!

Available Voice Effects

Sonoran Radio lets you create custom voice effect profiles for transmissions. These effects can be independently assigned to specific radio channels and emergency calls. Or, users can also customize their own voice effect preferences!

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

Vocoder

The vocoder effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on

Vocoder

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

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 (Pre & Post-Effects)

This EQ effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on

Equalizer

The equalizer effect allows you to boost or reduce frequencies throughout the audio range. &#xNAN;Tip: For a "tin can" effect, increase the mid frequencies while reducing the low and high ranges.

Pre-Effect EQ

The pre-effect EQ is a profile applied directly to the mic input before any effects (vocoder, digital, analogue, etc.) are applied. This can help improve clarity with the vocoder, grant a tin-can style effect, and more.

Post-Effect EQ

The post-effect EQ is a profile applied to the audio after all effects have been processed. This can help improve clarity and improve the finalized effects.

Applying the Voice Effect

On the User-Side

Voice effects can be customized by the individual listener, based on their preferences. Users can open their Settings menu and select the Voice FX tab to customize.

Toggle Community FX to Local FX mode to bypass the community set channel effects.

Enabling the vocoder locally forces your client to encode and decode all incoming transmissions, which can impact performance at higher user counts.

For better performance, so users pre-process transmissions on their end.

When a , it cannot be bypassed client-side—all transmissions are already vocoded before playback.

To Radio Channels

In the . This voice effect will apply to anyone talking in that channel.

, but enabling Vocoder FX forces all transmissions through the vocoder, ensuring it still applies to all custom FX.

To apply a custom voice effect for , 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.

You can import and export voice effect profiles to share with other communities. See some of our to import.

To Export:

Click the Import/Export Button.
Click Download to save the current voice effect to a JSON file.

To Import:

Click the Import/Export Button.
Click the file icon to import a JSON file directly.
Or, paste the JSON contents into the Import box and press Import.

We've pre-configured voice effects for popular use. Copy the JSON code below to import into your voice effects panel.

These voice effects combines the vocoder with pre and post-effect EQ customizations for the best possible clarity.

This voice effect utilizes EQ customizations for the best possible phone call effect.

Custom Voice Effects

Customize transmission voice effects for your community, or local user!

Available Voice Effects

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

Vocoder

The vocoder effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on

Vocoder

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

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 (Pre & Post-Effects)

This EQ effect remains consistent and does not fluctuate based on

Equalizer

Pre-Effect EQ

Post-Effect EQ

The post-effect EQ is a profile applied to the audio after all effects have been processed. This can help improve clarity and improve the finalized effects.

Applying the Voice Effect

On the User-Side

Voice effects can be customized by the individual listener, based on their preferences. Users can open their Settings menu and select the Voice FX tab to customize.

Toggle Community FX to Local FX mode to bypass the community set channel effects.

Enabling the vocoder locally forces your client to encode and decode all incoming transmissions, which can impact performance at higher user counts.

For better performance, so users pre-process transmissions on their end.

When a , it cannot be bypassed client-side—all transmissions are already vocoded before playback.

To Radio Channels

In the . This voice effect will apply to anyone talking in that channel.

, but enabling Vocoder FX forces all transmissions through the vocoder, ensuring it still applies to all custom FX.

To apply a custom voice effect for , 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.

You can import and export voice effect profiles to share with other communities. See some of our to import.

To Export:

Click the Import/Export Button.
Click Download to save the current voice effect to a JSON file.

To Import:

Click the Import/Export Button.
Click the file icon to import a JSON file directly.
Or, paste the JSON contents into the Import box and press Import.

We've pre-configured voice effects for popular use. Copy the JSON code below to import into your voice effects panel.

These voice effects combines the vocoder with pre and post-effect EQ customizations for the best possible clarity.

This voice effect utilizes EQ customizations for the best possible phone call effect.

Custom Voice Effects

Available Voice Effects

Vocoder

Clipping

Digital

Analog

Equalizer (Pre & Post-Effects)

Applying the Voice Effect

On the User-Side

To Radio Channels

Custom Voice Effects

Available Voice Effects

Vocoder

Clipping

Digital

Analog

Equalizer (Pre & Post-Effects)

Applying the Voice Effect

On the User-Side

To Radio Channels

To Emergency Calls

Import and Export Effects

Voice Profile Examples

Vocoder Example

#1 Vocoder

#2 - Vocoder with Additional Bass

Emergency Call Example