Secret of the Cylon Voice has been revealed
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:50 pm
Secret of the Cylon Voice has been revealed
Inspired by the 2013 Janec Van Der Lans video "Secret Signal of Excitation" I recently started researching if the Cylon voice equipment list has been fully discovered. Thanks to our fearless leader Goldcylon's connections, he tracked down maybe the last person alive who actually worked on the production process the Cylon Centurion voice, for which there is zero "behind the scenes" information. That guy still works in Hollywood visual effects production, with a long IMDB list of credits. We spoke for 25 minutes, & he revealed to me 1. The ultra rare synthesizer used to create the oscillator- 2. Which exact model EMS vocoder used- 3. The very strange distortion, which came from overloading the mic input on an extremely rare vintage effects unit (the effect itself only used in 1-3 scenes) 4. the type of console used- 5. the vintage tube compressor - 6. ONE of the several tape machines used in the recording/editing process. I have rounded up all of this gear, except the synth, which I visited at a studio for one day, and am putting together a brief documentary about it. Hope to have it done by the end of the year, will post here when complete.
Inspired by the 2013 Janec Van Der Lans video "Secret Signal of Excitation" I recently started researching if the Cylon voice equipment list has been fully discovered. Thanks to our fearless leader Goldcylon's connections, he tracked down maybe the last person alive who actually worked on the production process the Cylon Centurion voice, for which there is zero "behind the scenes" information. That guy still works in Hollywood visual effects production, with a long IMDB list of credits. We spoke for 25 minutes, & he revealed to me 1. The ultra rare synthesizer used to create the oscillator- 2. Which exact model EMS vocoder used- 3. The very strange distortion, which came from overloading the mic input on an extremely rare vintage effects unit (the effect itself only used in 1-3 scenes) 4. the type of console used- 5. the vintage tube compressor - 6. ONE of the several tape machines used in the recording/editing process. I have rounded up all of this gear, except the synth, which I visited at a studio for one day, and am putting together a brief documentary about it. Hope to have it done by the end of the year, will post here when complete.
