Mellotronists

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! )

> 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.
>
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> 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