In his latest video, synthesist Alex Ball demonstrates how to make your voice sound like a Dalek from Dr. Who, using a ring modulator effect.
Ball discusses the technique of using a sine wave, around 20-80 Hz, along with your voice and a ring modulator to recreate the classic effect. But he also notes that nailing the effect also depends on delivering the lines as a Dalek.
Now that you know technically how to make your voice sound like a Dalek, check out this video by Nicholas Briggs. He has been Dr. Who’s voice of the Daleks for the last couple of decades.
Briggs discusses how he creates the effect, using a Moog Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator, and then goes on to show how he approaches voice acting the Dalek part.
THIS is the important stuff we need more of. I’m planning to spend the weekend sternly bellowing EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! into a portable fan. I call it spin modulation.
Daleks sound like the crotchety old schoolmaster from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” I want to exterminate anyone who talks like that in real life. 😛
yawn.
+1
someone posts this article every year for the past 40 years