Doctor Who Audio Production Video!

Sonicstate.com takes a look at the audio production of Doctor Who and Torchwood at Bang! Studios in Cardiff.

I'm a sucker for BBC in general and have been a HUGE fan of Doctor Who since my Dad started showing me the old Tom Baker episodes.

This is pretty cool stuff if you're into sound design and foley, and they will be following it up with a look at the studio's new Digidesign console and a closer look at some of the foley tricks for the shows.




And while you're waiting for that second episode you could take a listen to a sound design project I did about a year ago. Whilst playing around with ring modulation I kinda figured out how to do Dalek and Cyberman voice effects. See if you can guess whose voiceing which character!

Doctor Who Dies First!


Enjoy!

Doctor Who Dies First?

What would happen if the Daleks and the Cybermen tried to join forces?

Doctor Who Dies First!




*** EDIT ***

Now that I've listened to this on crappy LCD speakers, you might want to use headphones...

[Sigh]

My mixing is rusty...

FREE PLUGIN VST!!! Sound Like a Dalek!

So yeah,

If you've been reading, you'd know that a couple days ago, I expressed a concern over not being able to make myself sound like a Dalek.

I have now corrected this.

NDC Plugs have a great freebie ring modulator to play with (called "The Modulator 2"), and with a little simple tweaking (and judicious use of a good compressor) YOU TOO can sound like a Dalek.

SCHWEET!

Go get the kit here!













Just make sure you clip your breath and room noise out before compression...
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Doctor Who Rules!

So Mrs. AudioGuy and I just finished season two of Dr. Who, and man is it a great show. I sobbed like a little girl for the K-9 episode.
One of the fun things about this revival for me though is seeing the show maintain it's tongue in cheek roots, while also modernizing. Seeing the updates to the Daleks and Cybermen has been really interesting, and of course after every episode I try to make myself sound like one of the villains.

I've gotten pretty good at cybermen. Pitch drop, EQ, Flange, and smooth it out. Bam! Cyberman! I'm actually having a spot of trouble with the Daleks. I know there is some upper end EQ, and some ring modulation, but I can't figure out the doses. Also there might just be more performance involved too. Cybermen are pretty flat.

I'm thinking about holding a contest for best monster/sci-fi/etc editing here on this blog. Just always been one of my favorite things to do, and it seems like it would be a lot of fun.

So for you Doctor Who fans, here's a great older article about the shows sounds, and here's a link to a page full of awesome sounds (I use quite a few on my 6700, good times).

Have fun!
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