Now onto the thing i originally promised i would post about… Darth Vader’s ANH voice.
His voice in ANH, even after it has reprocessed since the 2004 DVDs in an attempt to make him sound more like he does in ESB & ROTJ, still seems off to me and many others. The way he delivers the lines is faster and more intense ( (😉 ) and sometimes angry and his pitch seems higher for many lines. Not the more calm way he is from ESB onwards. Now there isn’t much i can do about the anger side of things but i have done some tweaking to give him a more slower delivery and in some places very slightly lowered the pitch and added some slight filtering to the voice. To me it now sounds closer to his vocals in ESB. There isn’t much more i can do to it though to get him to truly match how he sounds from ESB onwards, save re-recording all of his lines in ANH ( which i don’t want to do). So here is a small sample video showcasing the tweaked voice. Hope you enjoy it…
Impressive. Most impressive.