Analog voice processing

[KA4HJH]

>Does anyone know what effect was used for the voices of the Ceylons in
>Battlestar Galactica? It had a nasty metal-on-metal type sound. My initial
>guess is that this was done with a vocoder and synth.

Your initial guess is correct. Listen to the vocoder used in Kraftwerk's
"Radio Activity" and you'll hear something very similar--only in German. An
almost identical match can be heard in Cabaret Voltaire's song "Seconds Too
Late" (admittedly much more obscure). Vocoders are very sneaky if they'r
used right. It took me years to figure out how the Pink Floyd did the dogs
in, uh, "Dogs".

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"