#IMadeAThing! I've refined my #Dalek control room heartbeat sound effect, adding more harmonics, tweaking the reverb and speeding it up a bit. I'm really psyched to have been able to get as close as I have to such an iconic sound effect. Here's the original for reference. Let me know what you think.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su45cczykO8&list=RDsu45cczykO8&start_radio=1 #DoctorWho #SoundDesign #SoundEffects #SFX #SoundFX

@JustinMac84 @xogium OMG I'm not the only one that felt like that sounded like a heartbeat?

@pixelate @xogium I can't take credit for cottoning onto that myself. I read articles etc to try and find out how it was made and some describe it as a heartbeat. Makes sense.

@JustinMac84 @xogium Yeah, first time I heard it was on Big Finish.

@pixelate @xogium Oh wow. That was your first exposure to Doctor Who was it? Did you go back and do any classic stuff?

@JustinMac84 @xogium My first exposure was, I think, The Impossible Plannet. Then I got all into the Cybermen. So, Cybermen 1 and 2 from Big Finish. Now I'm going back through the Classic and Revival series, and I've spent money mon Big finish. I respect that they don't DRM their MP3's.

@pixelate @xogium Big Finish do a lot of good titles. Quite a bit of crap as well, but that's to be expected. Dalek Empire is my favourite of dalek stuff that they do. Cybermen are great. It's weird, if you look at cybermen objectively, I thinkk they're cooler and more sinister than daleks, but there's just something about daleks, something about their presentation that makes them awesome.

@JustinMac84 @pixelate More cool indeed. They make a ton of noise when walking, but at least you can hear them coming. Daleks are furtive type. And they can't even go up a flight of stairs because they use wheels ha ha ha.

@xogium @pixelate That's just the new cybermen that make noise. I prefer the ones that don't. Yeah how the daleks got away without even being able to go upstairs for so long is a testament to their overwhelming cool, but also kind of ridiculous. Was fixed in 1988 though.

@xogium @pixelate In universe, daleks are way better than cybermen. Their technology and means of reproduction are far more advanced.

@JustinMac84 @xogium @pixelate I don't know if I'm alone in this but the "Tenth Planet" Cybermen are my favorites. Their voices had that combination of somewhat human-sounding with that odd, old time computer voice inflection that, to me, made them sound so frightening. The 1980s Cybermen did not sound emotionless to me. They sounded either angry, disgusted or like they were enjoying themselves. The new Cybermen sound like they're talking through a roll of toilet paper. The Nicholas Briggs Dalek voices, to me, are the best. They are menacing and absolutely frightening. Briggs has Dalek psychology down to a science.

@DavidGoldfield @xogium @JustinMac84 Ugh yes, and Spare Parts! You gotta listen to Spare Parts! It's on Apple Music, Spotify, all that. Just don't listen to it at night or you'll be awake the rest of the night.

@pixelate @xogium @JustinMac84 I loved Spare Parts. I only heard that once but that's one story I'd be happy to replay. They did a great job in showing the humanity of the Mondasians, which made their conversion even more tragic.

@DavidGoldfield @JustinMac84 @xogium That poor girl.

@pixelate @JustinMac84 @xogium I don't remember her, as I haven't heard that story since it came out. It was quite good.

@DavidGoldfield @xogium @JustinMac84 It wasn't Nissa. It was... Ah come on brain, the father's daughter. Yvanne? Close as I can get.

@pixelate Right now, I'm replaying the 8th Doctor Time War series. I want to get the newer ones but before I do I want to replay what's happened. I forgot how good they were.

@DavidGoldfield @pixelate Is there a series 4 of that?