Sound Design: The Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Sound

[syrupcore]

now I hear a single siney bass note with a short delay and a long delay feedback along with someone just bashing their way up a synth with a noise osc added played through a gate or hard tremelo + delay. some sort of smeary phaser reverb thingy too?

[OneZero]

Thanks for the URL. It makes a great Ringtone.

[saldiamond]

They're kicking our ass so far.

I love the way that sentence looks next to your avatar.




heh heh

[centurymantra]

Clearly an interview with 'the guy who did the Six Million Dollar Man bionic sound' is in order for the next issue of Tape Op!

[coniferouspine]

So simple, and yet so mysterious.

For some strange reason, this thread makes me think of that quote from Bob Marley, sampled near the end of "Paul's Boutique" --

"If you explain to a musician, he'll tell that he knows it, but he just can't do it."

Me, I've always wondered about the echoey sound that Speed Racer's Mach 5 would make when it would jump through the air...kinda like chockchockjockjockjockjockjockjock...

[apropos of nothing]

I'm probably years too late on this, but what I'm hearing is:
A) a tail of some variety without the intial impulse, so a whack to a piano, spring 'verb, other 'verb, whatever that is...
B) run as a tape-loop or on infinite repeat through a delay, which is...
C) modified by a repeating amplitude envelope on a synth, probably with band-pass filter routed off the same envelope.

I might give a little attempt to this modus operandi and see what I see later. I'll post if I come up with anything postable.

[subspaceplatform]

Sounds like an organ through a tremelo effect.

[numberthirty]

I know I'm a little late to the party on this but, the very sound this thread is revolving around comes out of my ears every time I hear George W. Bush say nuclear more than three times(keeping in mind he will pronounce it differently every single time.) I'm thinking you could try miking each ear....