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Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] O/T- TV synth sound effect question

From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
Date: 2007-03-24

I've never been able to find out for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the Pal "War of the Worlds" sound was an early 1950's Chrysler product starter-motor.  Photon torpedoes are indeed guy wires, and Star Wars used new recordings of the same kind of sound with some creative Ben Burtt audio processing.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Korb
To: MELLOTRONISTS-LIST
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] O/T- TV synth sound effect question

 

Colin Crawford wrote:

On 24 Mar 2007, at 03:42, charel196 wrote:

     Does anyone here happen to know what instrument was used to make the "bionic" sound
     effect (na-na-na-na-na) on the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN tv series? Thanks-

Just someone hitting an iron girder then put thru an Echoplex or similar I reckon......


Greetings Colin and Gang,    One of most interesting SFX was the
"death-ray" used by the Martians in 1953 sci-fi classic "War Of  The Worlds."
So good the sound was, that Paramount used the effect 13 years later for
Star-Trek's photon torpedoes.

I believe that sound was created by hitting a steel guy-wire for a huge
vertical antenna. ....somewhere..... Was then post-processed thru some type of
early reverb or delay .    The Harry Chamberlin era......

Cheers, -- Jerry Korb (can only do the classic beer-belch,  Bwwwaaaa! )