3/11/2005

How do Daleks speak?

If you're looking forward to the return of Dr Who, you might enjoy This post from Pete Swarbrick on the Analogue Heaven mailing list: "As some of you in the UK know, my day-job involves the supply and tech support of cameras and associated kit to the film and TV industry.On my latest visit to the new Dr Who production I spotted the guy doing the Dalek voices hidden round the back with a good old Coles lip-mic and a small rack of audio stuff. On further inspection it turned out that the majority of the rack was not in use, the only active bit was a mic amp/compressor which was feeding a Moog MF102 Ring mod hanging round the side. I know there has been a debate about the original Dalek voices being true ring mod or just a fast-gated VCA but I thought maybe one or two of you here might like to know how it's being done this time around. Can't remember any settings apart from square LFO though..."

6 comments:

  1. Thanks to Lindasy at Bifurcated rivets for this harsh-but-fair analysis of this post...

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  2. Anonymous2:51 am

    That's some serious pot-kettle action, coming from a guy who less than 24 hours previously had posted
    'I skyped my PC from my iBook. You get an interesting echo. Typing sounds very odd.

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  3. Anonymous12:18 am

    i've a suspicion that for the new series' they've added some distortion; either digitally or by sticking it through a valve. there's just some added dirtyness with the modern daleks.

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  4. Anonymous3:01 pm

    The Dalek settings on the Moogerfooger Ring Mod are roughly:

    LFO - 0
    LFO Rate - 0
    Mix - 10
    Frequency - 30Hz (so the "High" button is selected and the frequency is at the lowest setting)

    They add distortion by slightly overloading the input of the Moogerfooger.

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  5. Anonymous7:20 pm

    You can use a program called HOG to make dalek voices on your computer.

    There's a really cool website that has instructions on how to do this:

    http://www.dalekvoices.co.nr

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