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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! )

jonesalley wrote:

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.

Hi Jon and Gang, There were two different SFX used in WOTW-1953.
One does souns like Chrys. starter motor, then followed by that guy-wire
thing .....most of the time. I just played my laserdisc copy to make certain.

One of the ST-TNG sound-track CD's included a bunch of SFX from the
series and films. One was the jump to Warp-1 . Impressive ...... JK