Audio Samples

Audio Sample Exercise
Using Effects on Dr. Who Audio Clips
Books! Best weapons in the world! Dr. Who quote

For this exercise I am using various audio clips provided by the official BBC website for the television show Dr. Who starring David Tennant (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/audio/). I manipulated each clip in Audacity and used the indicated effects provided.

Season 4: Episode 7 "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
Dr. Who (David Tennant) Agatha Christie clip:

How I did it: I selected the first section and changed the speed to -28. Then I selected the middle part which was just noise between the talking. I then clicked on noise removal. I selected "Get noise profile." Once I had my noise profile I selected the rest of what the Doctor said (that hadn't been modified yet). This took out some of the noise. Then I selected the part of the audio where Dr. Who says, "Solving a murder mystery with Agatha Christie," and changed the pitch from G up to A (frequency of 196 to 220.003). Next, I selected where he says "Brilliant!" This section I repeated the clip 10 times and then selected the last 6 and faded them out.

Season 2: Episode 2 "Tooth and Claw"
Werewolf Howling Clip:

How I did it: I wanted to do several things with this clip so the first thing I did is I repeated the clip 3 times (for a total of 4 howling sections to manipulate). I changed the pitch of the first clip up A# to G# (frequency of 958.696 to 3369.965, or 251% change). The second howling section I reversed and then I changed the speed of the third, which changes both tempo and pitch, to -60% of the original clip. Between the second and third clip I faded in and faded out each clip, respectively. The fourth clip I used the phaser. I pushed it to completely wet (LFO frequency 4.0, LFO start phase 360, depth 255). I decided on a rate of 10% feedback.

Season 2: Episode 3 "School Reunion"
Mr. Finch (Anthony Stewart Head) Do Try the Chips Clip:

How I did it: With this clip I just wanted to do one manipulation, but two different ways. The first time I changed the pitch from C# to B by selecting B on the drop down list. This changed the frequency to 7857.727 Hz (originally 3675.000 Hz). The second time I changed the pitch from the slider bar. I slid it to 3307.500 Hz, or a -25% change.

Thank you for listening.

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All audio clips can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/audio/

Last updated by Jennifer E. Veile, February 10, 2009.