Adding a Cheap Voice Changer

[StoutScout]

I will start off by saying, YES I KNOW SCOUTS DIDN'T HAVE VOICE MODULATORS!

 

There now that that is out of the way I decided to have a little fun with installing a cheap voice changer into my helmet. I've never really liked the sound of my voice while in costume, I don't feel like I sound intimidating enough, so I started looking into voice modulator options. Recently on a trip to Wally World I found this gem for less than $8:

 

 

The 'Old Man' voice option modulates your voice deeper, somewhat similar to Kylo Ren's in the Force Awakens. I decided this was worth messing around with.

 

I took the toy apart:

 

 

The wires are way too short to work in the helmet so I picked up some 28 guage wire from my local hobby shop, a cheap soldering iron and solder from Harbor Freight:

 

After cutting new lengths of wire, removing the old wires, soldering on the new wires, and taking Lexan scissors to the toy to remove unnecessary plastic, I ended up with this:

 

I then added various pieces of sticky back velcro and positioned the components around the inside of my helmet. My setup allows for me to 'store' the voice changer in the back of the helmet if I chose to go with just my voice amp setup.

 

 

Back of the helmet when voice changer is in place for use:

 

Front of the helmet when voice changer is in place for use (basically the speaker and microphone put in place) Note the microphone for my wireless voice amplifier setup is positioned in front of the speaker of the voice changer:

 

Here's the back of my helmet when the voice changer is taken out of use. In this picture you can see that I added a pad for comfort covering the soundboard box of the voice changer :

 

And here's the front of my helmet with just my wireless mic installed and the voice changer stuff placed in the back:

 

And for the record here is the helmet closed with everything in place and the wireless amplifier which I stick in one of my front pouches while trooping:

[Retrofire]

I think it's great. There are several scouts in my garrison that use a voice changer. Great way to take a mod and run with it!

 

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[trismis50]

Awesome!

[Thx1978]

Great build.