Sonic's First Voice: Ryan Drummond's Untold Tales!
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Get ready to dash through a whirlwind of nostalgia and insights as we join Ryan Drummond, the original video game voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, in an electrifying Q&A panel! From his iconic lines to his personal experiences with the character, Ryan shares it all, including his thoughts on voice acting, music, and staying true to yourself in the industry.
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Panel: Ryan Drummond Q&A
Event: Sac Gamers Expo 2023
Guests: Ryan Drummond
Date Of Recording: December 17, 2023
Recording Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
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0:00 Ryan Drummond
0:57 Have you played the drums?
1:59 What was your favorite line or moment that you recorded as Sonic?
7:31 What kind of music would Sonic listen to?
10:16 How would you have done Werewolf Sonic if you were to continue to voice Sonic?
11:09 Are there things that worked in the Sonic movies and what would you have done differently?
14:26 Has your work on Sonic allowed you to be more interested in learning about hedgehogs?
16:15 What was your favorite Sonic game?
17:01 Have you ever done voice work that has strained you?
24:48 How was the voice direction line for the Sonic games?
27:06 What part in music do you sing?
28:53 How did you do Knuckles voice?
30:30 What happened when you took over the voice of Shadow from David Humphrey?
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What's interesting is that his natural voice is deep. Even deeper than Roger's. Yet he gaves us a Sonic with a juvenile, high pitched voice. No doubt he also did a good interpretation of Shadow too.
Yea I miss when Sonic in the games had that kind of youthful sound
@@BingoHighway Sonic being portrayed as this edgy rebellious teen was very easy to market, that is not needed now a days because Sega lost the console war.
@@orangeslash1667 What does losing the console war have anything to do with that? Sonic should sound youthful and energetic.
@@orangeslash1667 Not needed but very necessary.
It was what a lot of us love and knew as sonic, having that change feels like completely destroying him.
David Humphrey did Shadow’s voice in SA2, not Ryan. You're thinking of Jason Griffith, who voiced both. Anyway, this man was my favorite Sonic, next to Jason. It took a while for me to like Roger's. He did best in Sonic Frontiers.
Edit: nevermind, apparently he did do it. I've played SA2 hundreds of times and had no idea he voiced Shadow towards the end of the game lol.
I had no idea his natural voice was this deep
Sincerely Yeah... I was a kid when I first searched for "Ryan Drummond" on TH-cam. That commercial he mentioned appeared and I was stunned by this person's voice... No fakes, No Impressions... Just a Deep and beautiful voice.
He's actually known for doing a lot of Halloween animatronic / prop voices which require voices like his.
11:42 Ryan saying “oh no” like knuckles from adventure unintentionally is so hilarious to me cause that’s literally just how he sounds irl 😂😂
lmao that's spot on
Funnily enough he voiced Knuckles in Sonic Shuffle. He did a pretty great job.
I think Ryan drummond’s normal voice would be perfect for older sonic. Maybe a little higher pitched, but I think it works.
Sonic fans always complain about which voice is better ? The problems is , the characters voices needs to get older as long as u improve voice directions cuz in Japan they always been doing that characters voices change when they need too.
Sonic voices been inconsistent for two decades excluding the classics .
lmao His normal voice sounds like a 30-year-old accountant. Not at all fitting for a young, cocky speedster. Besides, his Sonic voice is already awesome.
@@Darkparadox64 Sonic stayed the age of 15 for over 20 years. So I don't think its a matter of making them sound older when they don't even age. But to target a certain audience or go for a different take on Sonic.
@@trisxart2393 If you ask me I don't think it's out of the question for them to age Sonic up. He already is maturing mentally so I don't see why they can't age him up a bit. I mean it's hard for me to believe that Sonic in Frontiers isn't some 25 something man who is still trying to act like his old teenager self
@cringlord1920 I think Sonic works best as an ageless character who has a set personality, no different than Bugs Bunny or Popeye. Makes him more iconic. He's a cool, cocky thrill-seeker who can be a bit of a jerk at times but has a heart of gold.
30:00 he has not aged a day. he still sounds like the same exact sonic i heard all the way back in sa2 and i love it. thanks for still being here with us, ryan.
He lowkey lost it for a bit during the earlier part of Sonic Tails R, he lowkey got It back towards the end of that radio show
@prodkenny302 Yo you lowkey say lowkey a lot.
Deadass.
i'd argue he's gotten bettwr
I never realized that Ryan voice knuckles and shadow after he voice neo metal Sonic in sonic heroes
In what game, exactly?
@@shivaaji2509he voiced knuckles in sonic shuffle and voice shadow in some of lines of sa2 final battle
@@FlashBiduan oh I see
Another cool voice thing is the biolizard scream in sa2, where both of sonic and shadow's jp voice actors do a scream take. those two takes are then merged together with a filter on it to create the biolizard voice.
@@HyperSonic1999orJTH the biolizard was just reused from chaos wasnt it?
Wow. His natural voice is a lot deeper than I thought.
My favorite Sonic voice actor right behind Junichi Kanemaru. He's THE English Sonic. Aw yeah, this is happenin'!
Ryan Drummond is my definitive Sonic, he actually tried to emulate the Japanese VA Junichi Kanemaru and did a great job doing it, Junichi still voices Sonic to this day!
For me its Jason Griffith but Sonic Unleashed was my first Sonic game so maybe Im biased.
@@pinstripecool34tbh jason did a good job in every game he was in, including sonic X. I see nothing wrong in his voice in no game
Totally, I always try to point this out. Ryan sounds closest to Junichi.
Ryan is so Underrated!!! He deserves more praise!
According to what? People still argue over whether or not he's the best Sonic VA.
I love all the sonic voices equally including jun'ichi kanemaru
Overrated*
@@GiovanniKody100 Griffith is overrated. Not for any bad reasons, but he just is.
@@jboyathegamer same here
miss this guy as sonic so much
Ryan is such a cool guy! He has a calm, friendly demeanor yet he has a lot of wisdom to share. Almost a Mr. Rodgers sort of energy to him. He's always been my favorite Sonic, but that's not to discredit the many talented people who've played this character!
11:44 that “Oh no” reminded me of when he said it in Sonic Adventure 😭
Knuckles said it though
that was knuckles
It's so weird to hear the Adventure voice lines without the compression from having to fit all the dialogue in 1 GB on a Dreamcast disc
When Ive heard Ryan do Sonic’s voice recently it always sounded a little off to me. At 29:45 he sounds WAY closer to how he used to do it. Glad he’s getting his groove back.
take a listen to Sonic & Tails R, he's still got it in him even if he's gotten a tad older
Couldn’t agree more
Might be a bit of a hot take but Ryan Drummond to me was the best Sonic VA for the games. While Jason and Roger both did great work, to Ryan was the only who was good from the start and never got the chance to truly perfect the role, even though he was close to doing so by the time of Sonic Heroes.
29:45
Now thats my childhood
That awh yeah hit right at my soul
Oh no, Ryan went through the 'SAY THE LINE BART' Simpsons episode irl. 😂
My favorite sonic voice! They need to bring him back
nah SEGA's afraid of easy nostalgia money
Say that to green hills ong 💀
If they can keep reusing Green Hill over and over again, then they shouldn’t be afraid to bring back Ryan Drummond and some other past VA’s. Especially if they do end up remake the Adventure games.
@@SuperSonicWarrior93 they actually asked him to return for Generations but he turned it down because the contract would have required him to leave the VA Union and the pay would’ve been criminally low for what he was worth
@@TalikThealchemist Yeah, back then. I meant if he were to return now.
man, I've loved Ryan's work my whole life since I was a kid with Sonic Heroes and the other Sonic games at the time, I'm a cartoonist with a dream and making my own indie cartoon listening to his final audio hurt my heart but it also opened my mind and motivated me more to make a cartoon to break this system and go with the pure intention of art and make people happy (something that I am already achieving now little by little hehe) :), thank you Mr Drummond for your work in the Blue Blur and have made our childhoods and adolescence, hugs from Brazil❤️.
Maybe this was just from growing up in the era but I Drummond's Sonic voice was my absolute favorite Sonic voice ever. He had a fun-loving, juvenile pitch but could get really serious when the time came for it. I would love to see him come back for another project, even if it's just one more. He obviously enjoyed the part
Well at least he does the TH-cam show
“Cartoons are made to sell.”
Yeah, that’s pretty much Sonic Prime in a nutshell.
Ryan Drummond name-dropping Stormtroopers of Death took me by surprise lol
It's not the kind of metal band you see "regular" people mentioning. And now I can't help but imagine Sonic listening to crossover thrash too lmao
Honestly as a metalhead, it makes me so happy to see both Ryan and Roger agree on Sonic listening to speed metal!! I've always thought this too, it fits him SO well. I agree with crossover thrash too!
He's ONE OF MY FAVORITE "Sonic" Voices, next to Jason Griffith. 💙🦔🎮
this guy had the chance to keep on going for future games yet SEGA just had to change their minds didn't they?
to see how eager he was to always voice Sonic is so awesome though
Jason was too and they gave him the boot
Favorite Sonic VA of all time
I love this guy specifically because he has a deep voice and he gave a us a w sonic voice
Ryan is such a cool guy. He really went into the deep topics and answered with a very honest heart.
I Called it that Ryan is thinking about being a cameo for Sonic movie 3. It’s just Possible because he voices Sonic in the Adventure games and the Movie Is the SA2 type of movie. I recently told him of Twitter about the Sonic movie.
Fun Q&A, Ryan's still got it! I never knew his narural voice was that deep!
JESUS CHRIST HIS TAKE ON THE WAREHOG IS TERRIFYING
I thought he would sound like an Autodemo clip where he sounds like the warehog
He sounds like carnage, which is a nightmare fuel
Man ryan is my favorite sonic voice actor ever i grew up hearing him, sa2 battle on the xbox was the first sonic game ive ever played
paramount has to take the bait it would be peak
Ryan Drummond is such a cool and adventurous dude I love him as a voice for Sonic💙
I'll always know this guy as not only Sonic, but one of the voices for the spotter/crew chief from NASCAR Racing 2003 Season!
Man they need to do a spiderman no way home type content and get roger, ryan, jason even jaleel! all playing as different sonics meeting each other to defeat eggman I would so tune in
His knuckles is good
Wasn’t sure what to expect from this but this guy but I loved how real he was and how he had a huge appreciation for what he did
such an awesome guy , still my favorite sonic voice to this day
He's got a lot of stories and he really knows how to tell them.
My first game in the series was Sonic Heroes so I really just got one dose of him before they switched to Jason, and it was a hard pill to swallow 'cause by the point I started playing Ryan was really at his best.
I did end up coming around on Jason later and by this point I think all three of Sonic's voices in the games have been excellent. It's nice when that happens :)
Ryan has always been and always will be my preferred Sonic VA. When he left, Sonic was never the same for me.
That dude is good at voicing hes old Sonic voice
Man’s my favorite Sonic voice to this day.
15:00 I know which convention Ryan is talking about. It was DFW Hedgehog Show & SonicCon 2010. Mike Pollock was also there with Jason and Pete. I wanted to go there at that time when I first heard about it.
I love you Ryan Drummond! Thanks for making my childhood! I hope to meet you someday!
What would be interesting is if sega made a game in which all the sonics from the different era of the games met and stopped a threat.
15:37 is there any recordings of this LOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
So i think Ryan voice really fitted with the dark blue 1998 - 2004 Sonic.
I just can't imagine hearing him in a modern game.
Jason and Ryan did pretty good Job.
But i think Ryan's voice just Fit old Sonic design and Jason fits the Tall, Matured Sonic we Saw in sonic 06
36:03 Well, I know where that guy you spoke to on the phone can stuff all of his and the companies' landfiller.
I'm surprised no one has asked him not sure if they have or not. If it was true he was asked to come back for generations
Enjoyed to listen to his talk here, it was really cool and insightful... albeit the last question told us the bitter truth about what it did :,D
If they remake the Adventure games and Heroes (as well as give us SA3) they gotta get this man back as the voice of Sonic.
fuuuck! me and my girlfriend were supposed to go to this event and we completely forgot about it. SA2 and sonic as a whole as i kid was my ish and i can’t believe i miss my opportunity to be apart of this 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 dying inside
THE GOAT OF MY GENERATION!!!
Ryan Drummond is easily my favourite sonic voice actor and I thought Jason Griffin did a great job in Unleashed and Black Knight for the record. Never been a huge fan of Roger’s sonic, nothing against the guy
The David Humphery story was pretty interesting. People made it sound like he was out sick and Ryan stepped in but that's not the case after hearing that all explained.
Best sonic voice actor ever period 😍💖
13:01 - 13:03
The multiverse concept with the Sonic series would be a better idea if they did exactly that. I want to see a "Sonic No Way Home" movie with all three of yall in there.
No, enough Sonic meeting past/other versions of himself
And get Jaleel White in there too.
No, because they aren't different Sonics. They all voiced the same Sonic.
7:48 🤘🤘
If I may interject, I have something I want to say about 35:28 when the topic on what cartoons are for comes up. Yes it is true that cartoons have toys, video games, trading cards, books, clothes, back packs, lunch boxes, amusement parks, merchandising etc. associated with them. Almost all cartoons I watched as a kid did. HOWEVER!!!!! I don’t think selling products are the sole purpose of all companies that make cartoons to make them. For Sega clearly it was. But Nintendo approved DIC to make cartoons about the original Super Mario Bros trilogy and Super Mario World and those were all huge hits alike. And Pokémon is an anime show, series of trading cards, and franchise of video games. But I heard that Nintendo made Pokémon with the expectation that people will watch the show who never play the video games or the card games in their lives. And I think they may have acknowledged that their show may have been a bigger hit than their games. I can be wrong on that last sentence. Anybody who disagrees with me and has a contrasting retort is allowed to reply to me on that IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER. I do not appreciate being roasted by anybody just because my comment shows I may not exactly be up to speed on something.
It feels like a part of Sonic is missing without Ryan Drummond
that man, made a friend of mine Sonic a real . He is the kind of a person who need to listen over and over to boost your life experience.
Aw yeah, this is happenin!
aw yeah this is happenin!!
Wow, I've never heard his natural voice before, But He Has Been Doing Sonic's Voice and Jason Griffith's Sonic Voice almost sounds familiar.
Ryan performance as Sonic in Sonic Adventure 1, 2 and Heroes
34:15 That's funny because Ryan was recording Sonic for Sonic Adventure at around the same time as Jaleel White was recording Sonic for Sonic Underground. Was his contact at Sega not aware of that show? Maybe he didn't want to tell Ryan that the show was already running in syndication (instead of Saturday mornings) with Sonic being voiced by his first voice actor. To say nothing about the OVA which ALSO had its English dub recorded around the same time in another completely different studio.
Yeah, the timing of that was kind of odd. Assuming it had any traction beyond a loose idea, I wonder if it was intended to be a SoA led DiC show or if it was a SoJ idea that would have turned into an earlier version of Sonic X
The coolest Sonic. And don't give into the nostalgia peer pressure ryan, Sonic adventure 1 is better than 2. It's just been ported terribly. But wow had no idea about him voicing Shadow for a few lines. Thanks for asking that, I wanted to hear behind the scenes stories the most. It hurts me a lot there wasn't a ryan Drummond sonic cartoon, first I've heard of this.. Wouldn't you want to capitalize on sonic adventure's success further?? It had a Burger king line that was cancelled too.. Sonic was back. I don't get it.
Its weird because i think Ryan would fit perfectly as the modern sonic voice
no disrespect to Roger, its just Ryan's natural voice sounds like... like he'd be evolving or growing up the same way as Sonic would in the games
I actually met Ryan at SonicExpo this past August and he's the COOLEST EVER
He signed my drawing and my Dreamcast
We talked music and I found out he's actually a HUGE Metalhead
We talked Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and the like
HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN MR. DRUMMOND!
Ryan isnt so energetoc but honestly what hes saying is really interesting especially near the end. I used to think cartoons were there to entertain too. When I found out it was for selling something I was shocked. Lmao
9:35
Sonic vs shadow
Can you do the voice of Sonic X
Praying for Ryan rn. Blam Emi!
🙂🙂
warehog sonic...😳
Sega should do what happened in no way home and do a multiversal sonic show and/or movie with drummond, jason, and rodger.
Bro is literally Sonic. Lol.
SEGA GIVE HIM BACK
Jason Griffith is a great shadow and ryan Drummond is a great sonic they should stay forever. 🙆♂️🙇♂️🙆♂️🙇♂️🙆♂️🙇♂️
Hearing them again in Sonic And Tails R was fantastic! Now they gotta bring them back for the games again.
He should still be voicing Sonic and get paid a fair wage for doing so!
18:17 🅱ine🅱raft 🅱om🅱ie
all this for a scott pilgrimm scene
My boy getting old, damn. Hopefully they bring him back in a potential SA/SA2 remake (or Jason). No Roger; leave him out the 3D classics.
He's basically my 2nd favorite voice of Sonic, next to Roger Craig Smith. He's basically the US equivalent of Junichi Kanemaru.
Description of standing behind kids who know nothing is 🆒
I’ve got an idea for that movie question/response. Cast Jason as Shadow, cast Ryan as Metal Sonic, and cast Roger as an older more experienced Sonic in the post credits scene!
its so sad that he can bearly do the voice anymore:(
listen to sonic and tails r, he sounds really good in that!
Well, you gotta remember that he recorded a lot of his most famous lines a very long time ago when he was a lot younger. Ryan first voiced Sonic in 1998.
@@EnchantGaming2003 This is why Jason Griffith is important because in real life he sounds younger than Ryan.
Yeah it sounds off but what can you do the man has aged