though the original Cybermen effect was a voice box, which is a completely different tone and quite hard to voice-act with. If you don't have the real deal, a Mu-Tron gives a reasonable approximation.
@@tuftyindigo Just to clarify, my observation was more of the recent Cybermen, but I have no idea how that was done, i just heard the twang when Alex cranked up the frequency
Hilariously, some of the early Dalek voices were done by Roy Skelton, who amazingly also did Zippy from Rainbow. Adding a little bit of Zippy to a Dalek performance seems to give it the right amount of unhinged megalomania. :)
Thanks for the video. The Doctor Who TV was where I learnt the words Exterminate, Annihilate when I was a child. The Darlek voice was where I learnt how to use ring modulation. Both are important landmarks. Kind of.
Missed opportunity to tebrand as "Daleks Ball"...! (And life in metal looking like a kettle line had me on the floor. God I needed that laugh. Thank you.)
Wobbulator was a variable test tone generator. Totally different thing. There's lots of ring modulation devices that were in use at the time. VCS3 had one for instance. There's whatever Sabbath used for Paranoid.
I was reminded of the Zippy-like "aliens" in the old 'For mash, get Smash' adverts. What I'd completely forgotten was that Smash was made by Cadbury. Those robotic voices were quite different to the silky tones in the adverts for Flake and Caramel.
@@oscar_charlie I assumed they did, because I recognized the sound. Just found this Ben Burtt interview. They did use a shortwave radio. ua-cam.com/video/So0nmciiFJg/v-deo.html @ 36 : 58
@@oscar_charlie Same! I suppose a ring modulator on a voice has a similar effect. My little Tecsun shortwave receiver has SSB filters with both LSB and USB.
Really fun that the voice in question was demonstrated, but it was also great fun to see the man, the myth, the legend, Alex Ball, goof about and improvise stuff.
Great fun! I love the ring modulator on the Yamaha CS-80 (and the 50 and 60). I had a CS-50 back in the day and spent hours getting Vangelis-like swoops and whistles playing with the ring mod. More recently. the YC range have incorporated a ring modulator that gives some surprisingly great effects - I managed a Vangelis "Beaubourg" tribute (on my channel) using just this.
Ah Beaubourg - contractual obligation album or not? It does have a certain charm all of itself even if my landlady threatened me with eviction if I ever played it within her earshot!😂
The voice variable, famously, being provided (in the early days) by (among others) Captain Pugwash, Brains from Thunderbirds and Zippy from Rainbow. This is actually true.
I'm getting over a bout of the lurgy and that made me laugh out loud. Apart from coughing my internals externally that's a brilliant demonstration and description. :)
Learning how to create the signal chains needed for the sound you’re looking for can be challenging, but having examples I know & love used as reference points really helps. Thanks!
Thank you! I've got about a dozen explanations all saying sum and difference. Would you mind explaining "product" as I've not seen that anywhere. Would be good to know.
@@AlexBallMusic a ring modulator multiplies one input by the amplitude of the other. The frequencies produced are indeed at the sum and difference of the frequencies of the two inputs but the process to get there is multiplicative
@@hpoz222 Thank you. OK, so my explanation was correct, I just didn't get into the multiplication part, although I did show the MS-50 legend with 'A x B' written on it and thought about going into that but it felt like too much info. Perhaps I should have clarified. Edit - Just realised that that is what 'product' is referring to in the original comment - mathematical product meaning the result of multiplication. Ok, so we're all talking about the same thing. In hindsight it would have been better to have explained that rather than jumping to the result. I live and learn. Thanks for the comments.
The terminology around this can be quite confusing - in the RF world, a ring modulator circuit (and other kinds of multipliers) would be called a "mixer", in reference to its behaviour in the frequency domain. An entirely different concept to "mixer" in an audio context, where we're talking about summing signals, rather than multiplying them.
There have been a few comments about how (ignoring non-linearity) a ring modulator outputs the product of the carrier and modulator. To see this, we dig out the old high-school trig to get: sin(a)sin(b) = (cos(a-b)-cos(a+b))/2. I.e. ignoring phase, the sum of sine waves at the sum and difference of frequencies a and b. The effect is basically that for a wave with overtones, the resulting sine waves are no longer spaced harmonically. I got to play with some of this stuff when I contributed to an opensource software synth years ago.
Oh man , I am in bed with an absys in my tooth feeling sorry for my self ( kind of ). But that made me laugh so much I think it got the blood circulation going again giving a bit of relief. Great video , oh man that was funny.
Great to see you cover one of my very favourite devices. Every analogue synth should have one of these! It's the thing I most wish they'd included on the MatrixBrute. I also think it's important to tell people that what it's actually doing is multiplying the two waveforms together. I reckon that's just as important as talking about sums and differences, because it makes it easier to imagine what's actually going on. The link between the two is a bit trickier to explain, but anyone who's curious and not scared of a bit of maths can look it up: it's to do with trigonometric identities for sin(ax).sin(bx) making an expression that involves both sin((a+b)x) and sin((a-b)x). I think. It's been a while since I studied it!
I was thinking about the MS50's VCA and ring modulator the other day, because of comments we exchanged recently: *if* they both work all the way down to DC, and *if* they are accurately linear, I reckon you will be able to use them to scale and multiply the pitch CVs out of an SQ10 and a keyboard. The output would give you correct pitch transposition of the sequence.
@@AlexBallMusic I've had a look at an online manual for the MS50 now, and I need to point out that this won't work if you use the VCA that's got a low cut filter, because that won't pass DC voltages - use the one with no knobs. I sold my MS series kit fifteen years ago when I left the UK, and I'd forgotten there were two separate VCAs on the unit. I think it's going to be necessary to use the VCA to scale down the keyboard CV, because otherwise it might get large enough to drive the ring mod into clipping. First thing, connect the mod wheel of the MS20 or the voltage source of the MS50 to the control input of the VCA and the keyboard CV to the other, and patch the output to the meter. If you set the mod wheel / voltage source about half way up and play a key, does the meter show a steady output voltage or does it drift towards zero? Check this for both the VCA and the ring mod, and if both of them show a steady reading, things might work. It shouldn't matter which way round you plug them into the A and B inputs of the ring mod Second thing would be to check if the VCA is decently linear. Patch the mod wheel of the MS20 or the voltage source of the MS50 to the control input of the VCA and the keyboard to the other, and route the output to the oscillator pitch CV input. You should find that if you hold a key and adjust the mod wheel / voltage source, it will transpose the pitch. If you play octave jumps on the keyboard, does the oscillator jump octaves, or does it go out of tune? If it stays in tune, we're good: try the same thing with the ring mod. If both of them stay in tune, I would set up the patch as: Mod wheel or voltage source to the control input of the VCA, keyboard CV to the signal input of the VCA, output of the VCA to one input of the ring mod, pitch CV from the SQ10 to the other, output of the ring mod to the pitch CV of your oscillators. If you don't have the SQ10 at the moment, but do have a second MS series keyboard to hand, you can do a proof of concept by connecting the second keyboard in place of the sequencer. What I'm expecting is that both keyboards should track octaves correctly, and you should be able to use the control input of the VCA to adjust the overall tuning. So if you play a C on both keyboards, there will be a setting of the VCA that makes the oscillators play C. I hope this is reasonably clear. We can take this to email if you prefer.
@@AlexBallMusic It could go wrong at any point, but it's the best approach I can think of. This is why we ended up with linear 1v per octave as the de facto standard, not Korg's exponential tracking: you don't need to go through contortions like that in order to do something as simple as transposing from a keyboard. Let us know how it works out?
A late turn of the century windows app was an early text to speech converter, with careful misspelling and pitch options I had it say the most often heard order, advance... I have a copy of it around the program has long vanished. It sounds very good. The Outer Limits used the ring often starting with the first show early 60's.
I can do it with an epiglottis frig or whatever it is called. My 10-year-old son was impressed with my impression of Davros and you can get as technical as you like, but those fundamentals don't engage with a kid in grade 5. Otherwise ... very entertaining. On the Ball as always. $0.02
@@MePeterNicholls there is a BBC Radiophonic Workshop video someplace on YT or used to be..showing how they did the theme remake with a CS80 and ARP Odyssey. It was good.
I think that is from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica in the late 1970's. The technique used there was the Vocoder, where the human voice is used to modulate a synth carrier, such as a sawtooth wave.
It was the EMS Vocoder 1000 using an ARP 2500 synth for the carrier, plus other analog gear adding color to the sound, such as EQ, compressor, tape machine and more. A UA-camr called Supajc talked to someone who actually did the analog audio processing for the Cylon voice. He produced an excellent set of 7 videos detailing his research and demonstrating the sounds.
Hahaha nice once ! Memories of my childhood watching Dr. Who.. I only watched the first 4 seasons and I was told they were the best ones. There's something else in this tutorial, it only works with a British accent xD
Oh come now, you cannot tease like that! You HAVE to record a cover of Dalek Girl now. Life is metal, looking like a kettle? DO IT. OR YOU WILL BE EXFOLATED. EXFOLIATE! EXFOLIATE!
I remember years ago, my Dad howling with laughter at the new Moog MF-102 pedal I'd wasted my money on. For the next few days I was subjected to a constant barrage of 'ring' based Dad jokes.
Oh! I LOVE this episode. May the Daleks not exterminate Alex for a very long time and if they try, I hope he has a screwdriver with him. And a towel, as even the hitchhiker of Galaxy who travels with synthesizers naturally has.
I have no known fears... I'm not scared of heights, tight spaces, crowds, bugs, etc... Other than Daleks. They scare the living bejebus out of me. As a kid growing up in the 1980s, Dr. Who would come on after Sesame Street or other kids shows and proceed to scare the crap out of me. To this day Daleks creep me the eff out!
Does this effect go in before the mic pre-amp I'm guessing? I'm thinking about making a pedal that does this and getting my mate to sing part of a song as a dalek at our next gig.
At brief moment at 2:48 you sound like Max Headroom who hacked Chicago TV in 87. Ironically they were airing a Dr Who episode exactly in that time. Same ring mode technique was also likely also used when voicing Helper robot from Venture Bros, but with different wave than pure sine.
Leave it to Alex Ball to give an informative and entertaining demonstration of an ancient technique I previously assumed I had a perfectly good understanding of. Props.
Alex, I really enjoy your music content! But post it without using science fiction graphics. Please make it music related graphics content.. (just asking...)
"life in metal, looking like a kettle"
☕
lyrics for the ages
Sick !
A dalek laughing at its own joke would be the ultimate galactic rarity.
As you increase the frequency beyond the Dalek tone, you get the Cybermen twangy tone.
though the original Cybermen effect was a voice box, which is a completely different tone and quite hard to voice-act with. If you don't have the real deal, a Mu-Tron gives a reasonable approximation.
@@tuftyindigo Just to clarify, my observation was more of the recent Cybermen, but I have no idea how that was done, i just heard the twang when Alex cranked up the frequency
Hilariously, some of the early Dalek voices were done by Roy Skelton, who amazingly also did Zippy from Rainbow. Adding a little bit of Zippy to a Dalek performance seems to give it the right amount of unhinged megalomania. :)
This of course gave rise to this gem:
ua-cam.com/video/lmL-ilEBf8c/v-deo.html
Also, please please please do a full version of "Dalek Girl"!
We need to hear Zippy's voice through this effect😂
@@LFOVCF Yes! That would be the true test of how similar they really are..
Now, this is a great explanation of what ring modulation does. Simple and concise and, most of all, very fun. :D
THANK YOU HUMAN
Thanks for the video.
The Doctor Who TV was where I learnt the words Exterminate, Annihilate when I was a child. The Darlek voice was where I learnt how to use ring modulation. Both are important landmarks. Kind of.
Oh my god I need a full version of “Dalek Girl” asap!
Missed opportunity to tebrand as "Daleks Ball"...!
(And life in metal looking like a kettle line had me on the floor. God I needed that laugh. Thank you.)
It is well documented Ben Burt's main sound design tool is the 2600.
The Radiophonic dept used what Brian Hodgson referred to as 'the Wobbulator'
Wobbulator was a variable test tone generator. Totally different thing. There's lots of ring modulation devices that were in use at the time. VCS3 had one for instance. There's whatever Sabbath used for Paranoid.
@@MusicEnthuZone Unless they had a TARDIS of their own they wouldn't have had VCS3 in 1963 and Paranoid wasn't released until 1970
2:39 Mild ring mod sounds like Davros. 2:44 A little more sounds more Daleky. 2:48 Go even higher and that's the Cyberman voice.
Yes! Variations of the same effect.
I was reminded of the Zippy-like "aliens" in the old 'For mash, get Smash' adverts. What I'd completely forgotten was that Smash was made by Cadbury. Those robotic voices were quite different to the silky tones in the adverts for Flake and Caramel.
That Star Wars sound can be heard on a shortwave radio in single sideband mode (SSB) tuned slightly off center.
I thought they used a detuned SSB radio to generate all the radio chatter. Now I'm not that convinced anymore.
@@oscar_charlie I assumed they did, because I recognized the sound. Just found this Ben Burtt interview. They did use a shortwave radio. ua-cam.com/video/So0nmciiFJg/v-deo.html @ 36 : 58
Yes I would say also USB or LSB they used for it
@@oscar_charlie Same! I suppose a ring modulator on a voice has a similar effect. My little Tecsun shortwave receiver has SSB filters with both LSB and USB.
Ohh Alex. What a classic. Very useful information. Thanks for making my Friday morning in cloudy Sydney!
Cloudy with a chance of ring modulation.
Really fun that the voice in question was demonstrated, but it was also great fun to see the man, the myth, the legend, Alex Ball, goof about and improvise stuff.
Great fun! I love the ring modulator on the Yamaha CS-80 (and the 50 and 60). I had a CS-50 back in the day and spent hours getting Vangelis-like swoops and whistles playing with the ring mod. More recently. the YC range have incorporated a ring modulator that gives some surprisingly great effects - I managed a Vangelis "Beaubourg" tribute (on my channel) using just this.
Ah Beaubourg - contractual obligation album or not? It does have a certain charm all of itself even if my landlady threatened me with eviction if I ever played it within her earshot!😂
@@oldunclemick Apparently, Vangelis was disdainful of the album in later years but I've always loved it 🙂
Wikipedia says the original (1963) Dalek voice was a "midrange boosted human voice" ring modulated by a 30 Hz. sine wave.
And the voice of Commander Powell in John Carpenter's first film, "Dark Star."
The voice variable, famously, being provided (in the early days) by (among others) Captain Pugwash, Brains from Thunderbirds and Zippy from Rainbow. This is actually true.
I like to think that inside, Daleks look like Zippy.
“Everybody knows that, Bunglebones!”
Educates, Informs and Entertains!
The Conversation is another film with lots of hot ringmod action
Great movie 👍
I'm getting over a bout of the lurgy and that made me laugh out loud. Apart from coughing my internals externally that's a brilliant demonstration and description. :)
Learning how to create the signal chains needed for the sound you’re looking for can be challenging, but having examples I know & love used as reference points really helps. Thanks!
Holding out for, “ The Daleks do Disco”.
But if we push the workers any harder they will die. Dalek: Only the weak will die!
“I am and always will be the optimist" that there will continue to be great content on this channel.
Thank you for this proper lesson. At least i understood Ring Modulation🙂
Hahaha great video Alex! We were all wondering how they did it! Dope video.
When i engaged my beloved Penelope, i bought her and engagement ring and in return, she bought me an mf102 "Engagement Ring modulator". True story. 😁
True love.
The blue on grey of the classic dalek is a dead ringer for the Boss DR-110 drum machine's colour scheme. A coincidence? I think not 😵💫
Thank you for explaining that. I've never used a ring modulator for that purpose, but now I'm going to have to give it a try.
I like having my ring modulated. Yesh.
Geert, how dare you sully the comments under Alex's video with your cheap innuendo! He is sure to be furious.
I am a Dalek & I love Garlic! 😂
A ring modulator gives you the product, not the sum of the two signals. Fantastic video! As always
Thank you!
I've got about a dozen explanations all saying sum and difference. Would you mind explaining "product" as I've not seen that anywhere. Would be good to know.
@@AlexBallMusic a ring modulator multiplies one input by the amplitude of the other. The frequencies produced are indeed at the sum and difference of the frequencies of the two inputs but the process to get there is multiplicative
@@hpoz222I believe in mathematical terms it's called a 4 quadrant multiplier, correct? Whereas AM is 2 Quadrant
@@hpoz222 Thank you. OK, so my explanation was correct, I just didn't get into the multiplication part, although I did show the MS-50 legend with 'A x B' written on it and thought about going into that but it felt like too much info. Perhaps I should have clarified.
Edit - Just realised that that is what 'product' is referring to in the original comment - mathematical product meaning the result of multiplication.
Ok, so we're all talking about the same thing. In hindsight it would have been better to have explained that rather than jumping to the result. I live and learn. Thanks for the comments.
The terminology around this can be quite confusing - in the RF world, a ring modulator circuit (and other kinds of multipliers) would be called a "mixer", in reference to its behaviour in the frequency domain. An entirely different concept to "mixer" in an audio context, where we're talking about summing signals, rather than multiplying them.
There have been a few comments about how (ignoring non-linearity) a ring modulator outputs the product of the carrier and modulator. To see this, we dig out the old high-school trig to get: sin(a)sin(b) = (cos(a-b)-cos(a+b))/2. I.e. ignoring phase, the sum of sine waves at the sum and difference of frequencies a and b. The effect is basically that for a wave with overtones, the resulting sine waves are no longer spaced harmonically. I got to play with some of this stuff when I contributed to an opensource software synth years ago.
yeh, ringmod is a very cool tool,. i use it all the time. great content Alex! 👍
Oh man , I am in bed with an absys in my tooth feeling sorry for my self ( kind of ).
But that made me laugh so much I think it got the blood circulation going again giving a bit of relief.
Great video , oh man that was funny.
Sounds like a visit from the Doctor was helpful. 😉
Great to see you cover one of my very favourite devices. Every analogue synth should have one of these! It's the thing I most wish they'd included on the MatrixBrute. I also think it's important to tell people that what it's actually doing is multiplying the two waveforms together. I reckon that's just as important as talking about sums and differences, because it makes it easier to imagine what's actually going on. The link between the two is a bit trickier to explain, but anyone who's curious and not scared of a bit of maths can look it up: it's to do with trigonometric identities for sin(ax).sin(bx) making an expression that involves both sin((a+b)x) and sin((a-b)x). I think. It's been a while since I studied it!
Timely and topical. I'm amazed.
Cheers m'dear. Will be trying this out at my next team meeting. Just to freak 'em out.
I was thinking about the MS50's VCA and ring modulator the other day, because of comments we exchanged recently: *if* they both work all the way down to DC, and *if* they are accurately linear, I reckon you will be able to use them to scale and multiply the pitch CVs out of an SQ10 and a keyboard. The output would give you correct pitch transposition of the sequence.
My, my. How would one set that up?
@@AlexBallMusic I've had a look at an online manual for the MS50 now, and I need to point out that this won't work if you use the VCA that's got a low cut filter, because that won't pass DC voltages - use the one with no knobs. I sold my MS series kit fifteen years ago when I left the UK, and I'd forgotten there were two separate VCAs on the unit.
I think it's going to be necessary to use the VCA to scale down the keyboard CV, because otherwise it might get large enough to drive the ring mod into clipping.
First thing, connect the mod wheel of the MS20 or the voltage source of the MS50 to the control input of the VCA and the keyboard CV to the other, and patch the output to the meter. If you set the mod wheel / voltage source about half way up and play a key, does the meter show a steady output voltage or does it drift towards zero? Check this for both the VCA and the ring mod, and if both of them show a steady reading, things might work. It shouldn't matter which way round you plug them into the A and B inputs of the ring mod
Second thing would be to check if the VCA is decently linear. Patch the mod wheel of the MS20 or the voltage source of the MS50 to the control input of the VCA and the keyboard to the other, and route the output to the oscillator pitch CV input. You should find that if you hold a key and adjust the mod wheel / voltage source, it will transpose the pitch. If you play octave jumps on the keyboard, does the oscillator jump octaves, or does it go out of tune? If it stays in tune, we're good: try the same thing with the ring mod.
If both of them stay in tune, I would set up the patch as: Mod wheel or voltage source to the control input of the VCA, keyboard CV to the signal input of the VCA, output of the VCA to one input of the ring mod, pitch CV from the SQ10 to the other, output of the ring mod to the pitch CV of your oscillators. If you don't have the SQ10 at the moment, but do have a second MS series keyboard to hand, you can do a proof of concept by connecting the second keyboard in place of the sequencer. What I'm expecting is that both keyboards should track octaves correctly, and you should be able to use the control input of the VCA to adjust the overall tuning. So if you play a C on both keyboards, there will be a setting of the VCA that makes the oscillators play C.
I hope this is reasonably clear. We can take this to email if you prefer.
I forgot the meter on the MS50 had separate inputs for DC and AC - use the DC one.
@@David_K_Booth Awesome - thank you!
@@AlexBallMusic It could go wrong at any point, but it's the best approach I can think of. This is why we ended up with linear 1v per octave as the de facto standard, not Korg's exponential tracking: you don't need to go through contortions like that in order to do something as simple as transposing from a keyboard. Let us know how it works out?
Perfection 👌
A late turn of the century windows app was an early text to speech converter, with careful misspelling and pitch options I had it say the most often heard order, advance... I have a copy of it around the program has long vanished. It sounds very good. The Outer Limits used the ring often starting with the first show early 60's.
Finally! A synth tip for my generation!
A Dalek once gave me some great skin care advice ... *EXFOLIATE*
Natash Beddingfeld has a nice Dalek song... "No one else can do it for you! No one else! No one else!"
I always wished a Dalek would roll in and quip, "What's all this then?!?"
Any other old gabber heads having a revelation about "I will have that power"? 😅
Impressively authentic
It always sounded to me like they used the higher-pitched ring modulator for the voice of the Cybermen as well.
As usual. Know how and fun. If only schools could be managed this way...
The windows app Goldwave has a opinion called robot which basically sounds like a Delek.
***SCANNER TO SYSTEM - I SEE THE REBEL BASE***
I’m still scared of the Daleks. It started in 1974 for me.
OMG I'm a Dalek Girl was PURE WIN.
I can do it with an epiglottis frig or whatever it is called. My 10-year-old son was impressed with my impression of Davros and you can get as technical as you like, but those fundamentals don't engage with a kid in grade 5. Otherwise ... very entertaining. On the Ball as always. $0.02
Ex-ter-mi-nate!!!
It’s like instant Hawkwind and Dave Brock too!
They also used a Ring Mod for the opening theme tune reboot in the Tom Baker era for the cool intro noise.
I’d love to know how to recreate that scream
@@MePeterNicholls there is a BBC Radiophonic Workshop video someplace on YT or used to be..showing how they did the theme remake with a CS80 and ARP Odyssey. It was good.
@@supersteveworld yeh. That screams not as good tho ;)
Sorry i only know the polished kettle, that says ‘by your command’. It scared me as a kid. I now love it 🤖
I think that is from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica in the late 1970's. The technique used there was the Vocoder, where the human voice is used to modulate a synth carrier, such as a sawtooth wave.
yes vocoder, the question is, which one was it. There is a website about it somewhere :)@@NeuroPete
It was the EMS Vocoder 1000 using an ARP 2500 synth for the carrier, plus other analog gear adding color to the sound, such as EQ, compressor, tape machine and more. A UA-camr called Supajc talked to someone who actually did the analog audio processing for the Cylon voice. He produced an excellent set of 7 videos detailing his research and demonstrating the sounds.
Great fun ,cheers Alex
Thanks for this video Dalex. 😮
Hahaha nice once ! Memories of my childhood watching Dr. Who.. I only watched the first 4 seasons and I was told they were the best ones. There's something else in this tutorial, it only works with a British accent xD
I just realized this is the same technique used to do some of the beetle voices in Spoilsbury Toast Boy. Weird. Maybe Alex is a beetle.
Like this fun tutorial. How about Metal Mickey? He’s well dodgy, even more so than a robo-fascist.
Fucking mental video... loved it!
"No, R2. I am your father."
Oh come now, you cannot tease like that! You HAVE to record a cover of Dalek Girl now. Life is metal, looking like a kettle? DO IT. OR YOU WILL BE EXFOLATED. EXFOLIATE! EXFOLIATE!
Finally a tutorial we want and need!
I remember years ago, my Dad howling with laughter at the new Moog MF-102 pedal I'd wasted my money on. For the next few days I was subjected to a constant barrage of 'ring' based Dad jokes.
All jokes are funnier through a ring mod. This is science.
Oh! I LOVE this episode. May the Daleks not exterminate Alex for a very long time and if they try, I hope he has a screwdriver with him. And a towel, as even the hitchhiker of Galaxy who travels with synthesizers naturally has.
Imagine a gathering consisting exclusively of Daleks and Vogons. "Worst party everrrr!"
@@dillipphunbar7924 :D
Meet me upstairs, Mr. Dalek.
I have no known fears... I'm not scared of heights, tight spaces, crowds, bugs, etc... Other than Daleks. They scare the living bejebus out of me. As a kid growing up in the 1980s, Dr. Who would come on after Sesame Street or other kids shows and proceed to scare the crap out of me. To this day Daleks creep me the eff out!
This works so much better if you have an English accent :)
Great. In my channel I have mine using AJH Synth modules.
"...put your voice into it and experiment. Experiment! Experiment!"
great fun
😄 Super fun!
Does this effect go in before the mic pre-amp I'm guessing? I'm thinking about making a pedal that does this and getting my mate to sing part of a song as a dalek at our next gig.
Dude 😂 0:52 had me crying
Ah, I must find my Dalek relaxation tape for humans.
Breath in....
YOU ARE FLOATING ON A CLOUD
ALL IS TRANQUIL
TRANQUIL! TRANQUIIIIILLL!!!
I ate the jam sandwich.
love it 🖐😂❤️
The Doepfer A-114 Dual Ring Modulator MULTIPLIES the two inputs.
Curious, isn't it?
At brief moment at 2:48 you sound like Max Headroom who hacked Chicago TV in 87. Ironically they were airing a Dr Who episode exactly in that time.
Same ring mode technique was also likely also used when voicing Helper robot from Venture Bros, but with different wave than pure sine.
Leave it to Alex Ball to give an informative and entertaining demonstration of an ancient technique I previously assumed I had a perfectly good understanding of. Props.
I'm a Dalek Girl😂😂😂
You need to do Dalek Patreon shout outs.
Next, Metal Mickey...
Does the MS-50 have a real ring mod? The thing marked as a ring mod on the MS20 is a logic gate iirc
Giving Nicholas Briggs a run for his money. Or behind his sofa.
After many years of wanting one, I recently bought a Behringer 2600. Can you guess what the first thing I did was to annoy the missus with?
@ 3:40 Me terrified. Job done
Bang on
Try moving the formant up a bit; or even the pitch. Sounds Dal-icious!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Can you also do that with an Odyssey? I tried it but I didn't get much out of it
Ring mod should be outlawed. Now I know the enemy better.
What's the three-stringed instrument in the background at 2:04?
4:17 - you mean Sonic Screwdriver.
Excellent.
I tried to use some tricks, sometimes it was very close to Nick Briggs' voice
Now, how do you create Soundwave's voice from Transformers?
Alex,
I really enjoy your music content! But post it without using science fiction graphics. Please make it music related graphics content.. (just asking...)
You should have done Frankie Boyle's Dalek poetry........"DAFFODILS"