The BBC is sharing some of the sound effects they used on the radio in the 1960 as part of a broader Web audio project they've been working on. In the collection called Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API, they offer explanations of the effects and the technical information associated with the API (which you don't need to understand), and most importantly they offer that you "have a play" with the virtual devices. The Wobbulator is calling to you.
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It is apparently possible to use your computer's microphone to make your own Dalek sounds with the Ring Modulator, but I haven't had a chance to play with that yet. Let me know if you get it to work.
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This works on Google Chrome. But if it could be used to process Mitch McConnell's speech, at least the Daleks would understand it.
Would the Daleks even care about McTurtle? They want to destroy all life, and last I checked, a walking contradiction doesn't necessarily constitute life.
That was pretty fun to play around with. I'm a musician and an audio engineer, so I could play around with that stuff for hours.
It's interesting to see what they used to have to do way back in the day to make sound effects in recording studios. Back in the 50's, the only way to make reverb (back then called "echo") was to throw an extra speaker in a bathroom and put a microphone in there and throw it in the mix.
The Wobbulator it sounds like a pension plan dreamed up by Romney when he was at Bain Capital.
I've been able to get the ring modulator to produce '60s-style Cybermen voices quite easily, but haven't yet gotten even close to any kind of Dalek sound.
It was fun fooling around with the wobbulator when I was able to move the other knobs. My computer didn't like it, but was able to get something from the square wave setting, but then the knobs quit working and it just stuck on one setting.
Maybe I need to get one of these:
http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com/index.php?op=modulators&module=dalek