Phaneron

15th Oct 2025

Predator (1987)

Question: Why does the audio sound so odd when Dutch screams "Get to the chopper!"? It almost sounds like he's shouting it into a tin can.

Phaneron

Answer: Being an editor myself for YouTube and other projects, and working with audio editing, to me this sounds like they tried to double layer the audio in that moment to make him sound a bit louder. But the syncing on the two layers was not perfect. That's an easy trick to get a robotic sound to a voice: to layer it twice and have the second layer slightly off and at a different pitch, but doubling it also makes it louder. That's just my guess based on my own editing experience.

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