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Sound Design: The Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Sound

Post by jebjerome » Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:27 pm

How would one recreate the sound that The Six Million Dollar Man made when he did an awesome bionic move? Some kind of synth with delay I'm guessing, but any ideas/thoughts/insight to this would be appreciated.

And while I'm at it same question except about The Transformers cartoon transforming sound?

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Post by joelpatterson » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:22 am

I found kind of an interesting thread about this:

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=64510
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Post by soundguy » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:06 am

like anything in post, there's a million ways to skin a cat. If you know someone into analog synths there are just a ton of ways to do that. A very pedestrian way to get close enough would be to find a repeat percussion effect and run a not through it and use that as your base to manipulate. There are lots of ways to get a repeat percussion sound without having that circuit, a vcs3 excells at that kind of stuff, look at all the stuff in dr. who.

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Post by syrupcore » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:36 am

is 'sample it' cheating?

I can't remember it exactly but I rememeber it as a few different sounds being pitched up and then that little 16th note rhythm. If you can find the sound to post up, that'd be fun.

a couple of simple analog synth patches going slowly up in pitch (or guitar+arm) and then gate them with a drum machine keying the gate should get you close. or a tremelo on square wave pattern.

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Post by jebjerome » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:56 am

I found kind of an interesting thread about this:

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=64510
I posted both. Didn't think I get much response on either,but also wanted to see whether the Gearslutz answers were more about gear and the TapeOp answers were more about ingenuity or if it didn't matter.
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Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:14 pm

jebjerome wrote:
I found kind of an interesting thread about this:

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=64510
I posted both. Didn't think I get much response on either,but also wanted to see whether the Gearslutz answers were more about gear and the TapeOp answers were more about ingenuity or if it didn't matter.
So, how did we do compared to gearzlutz?

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Re: Sound Design: The Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Sound

Post by JGriffin » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:19 pm

It sounds a little like a large spring (like on a garage door counterbalance), either edited or thrown through a tape delay.
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Post by inverseroom » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:21 pm

They're kicking our ass so far.

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Post by joelpatterson » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:27 pm

Come on, troops! Rally! Where is Fletcher? Where's Joel Hamilton when you need him! And the Professor! And---

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Post by jebjerome » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:48 pm

They're kicking our ass so far.
I love the way that sentence looks next to your avatar.


There are some good responses on Gearslutz.
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Post by Everybody's X » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:15 pm

sounds like when you whack a spring reverb tank, time stretched and pitched shifted
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Post by I'm Painting Again » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:01 pm

I might just try to find an old tape or something and sample it directly..

I remember the Hanna-Barbara Sound FX library definitely had that exact sound though..

http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detailDemos.html?149

you can actually hear it in the demo on this link!!

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Post by syrupcore » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:12 pm

jebjerome wrote:I love the way that sentence looks next to your avatar.
totally.

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Post by syrupcore » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:17 pm

the snip from the HB clip:
http://luktown.org/random/6million.mp3

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Post by norton » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:17 pm

to me, it sounds like something strummed. maybe piano strings run through a rhythmic gate... or repeating delay?? with some plate verb.

anywhere close??

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