Sound Design: The Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Sound - Page 3

fuzzface777 · 29th September 2006, 03:57 PM

THat porn foley on utube is hilarious!

Hey these movie wavs or sounds, are not royalty free are they? So you couldn't use them commercially?

initialsBB · 29th September 2006, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by dbbubba

The place where all the weird Hollywood cars were on Caheunga is still there... my studio is walking distance from it.

Is that the place right next to the 101 with some kind of strange Battlestar Galactica tank thing in the lot?

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Originally Posted by dbbubba

The funny thing is that I have been to that point on the beach MANY times and I have never seen a crew filming there!

They're probably out there at 5am!

max cooper · 29th September 2006, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by initialsBB

Is that the place right next to the 101 with some kind of strange Battlestar Galactica tank thing in the lot?

It was actually from the Saturday Morning show "Ark II"

There's footage of it at the bottom of this page:

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/ark.htm

A friend and I actually went to see about buying it. It built on a Winnebago chassis + running gear. We wanted to see if we could restore it but it's almost totally fried. It's not street legal, but he wanted to park it behind his house and convert it to an office space, kinda like the Airstream at Hollywood Canteen.

max cooper · 29th September 2006, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by dave-G

Weren't the Kroffts British? And hated each other or something?

Nah, that was Oasis.

But anyway, Sid doesn't have an accent, so I assumed he's American. I never asked about Marty.

centurymantra · 30th September 2006, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by max cooper

It was actually from the Saturday Morning show "Ark II"

Yes!! Ark II...I mistakenly thought it was Ark 2000. Thanks for clearing that up...and the awesome pic. Man, does that ever send an abstract nostalgia loop reeling through my head.

Cheers!

dbbubba · 30th September 2006, 04:50 PM

That's the ride I'm talking about!
It's still there?
I think I actually stopped and looked at it one time.
It was pretty beat looking in 1981!
It seems like it was made out of PLYWOOD!

I was close to there eating breakfast at that little resturant called Good Friends and at In and Out which my daughter is obsessed with. This was last May.

When I lived out there in the early '80s I'd go to places like Barris Custom Cars and Nudie's take in the nostalgic stuff. That was the cool part of Hollywood and that part of L.A. because wierd random TV/movie "things" would pop into your world out of the blue.

To this day everytime I fly from DFW to Burbank (2x per year) there is some "celebrity" on the flight. I sat next to Morgan Fairchild last year (we went to highschool together) and Bob Eubanks (gameshow host guy) last May. I once explained proper bias settings for cassettes to Slim Pickens son a flight from LAX to El Paso! That was a great "Hollywood moment" getting to introduce him to my dad as we got off of the plane in Paso!

Danny Brown

dbbubba · 30th September 2006, 05:00 PM

That was Slim Pickens HIMSELFF and not his "son."

Typo....

DB

BrianK · 30th September 2006, 06:52 PM

Besides ARK II, it was in the movie Damnation Alley and the TV show "Get a Life" with Chris Elliot, where it was called "Paperboy 2000"! Very funny episode....

max cooper · 30th September 2006, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dbbubba

That was Slim Pickens HIMSELFF and not his "son."

Typo....

DB

Yeah, it's the "B" list celebs that I get excited about. Never was as excited as when I ran into the Smothers Brothers at the Mondrian.

vixapphire · 1st October 2006, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by macr0w

Believe it or not I have both the bionic man and the bionic woman albums. I'm talkin vinyl here people. I'll have to break them out and maybe sample the sound fx.

you are a true hero and great man for having such valuable lucre in your collection! i love stuff like that!

initialsBB · 1st October 2006, 01:35 AM

I just drove by there today and the Ark II is gone! End of an era.

SiliconAudioLab · 1st October 2006, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by cush

I just did a ADR session with Harve Bennett (prod. of $6M Man) and could have asked him. I think his son freelances at the post place I work. I'll see if I can dig up the answer.

I was in the middle of explaining to the inexperienced director why I record every take and Harve went into the "We can rebuild him" bit from the opening of the show. Sadly, I couldn't shove the director aside and hit record before he finished. I had no idea it was his voice.

What are you using these days for ADR? Vocalign? Loops?

BTW the source sound for the Six Million Dollar Man was the tone wheel leakage from a B3. When run though a Leslie w/ the horn spinning it added a metalic phasing signature to it. The strait leakage is more usable vs the Leslie, which is more distant but added it's thing. Then into the funky Tel-Ray style echo/delay with feedback, which also had an adjustable square - sine wave LFO modulation on it like the PCM42's do, and you have the sound.

Here's that sound now. If you listen close, try and identify what other Sci-Fi show used that sound, and for what. Modulated/delayed of course.

Go ahead, run a pop of that sound through your PCM-42 and see for yourself.

max cooper · 1st October 2006, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by initialsBB

I just drove by there today and the Ark II is gone! End of an era.

OH well. I think some guy in Woodland Hills still has the Harold and Maude Jaguar Hearse.

If ever there was a cooler car, I don't know what it would be.

I guess that'd be "H- Type".

initialsBB · 1st October 2006, 05:39 AM

WHAT?!

They didn't really drive it off the cliff?

dbbubba · 1st October 2006, 03:27 PM

Yeah, I looked for that ARK II thing every time I drove past there in the last few visits.
MAYBE IT IS BEING RESTORED?
Burned?

My wife thinks that Harold and Maude is the greatest movie.
Beats me.

Danny Brown

quincyg · 1st October 2006, 07:15 PM

not sure if someone mentioned this, but the clean sample is on the hanna barbera sound fx library. for those who don't want the challenge of recreating it.

Ravian · 29th January 2007, 03:32 AM

what about the transformers sound ? how is that made.
they are making a movie about the transformers, im curious if they are gonna have the same sound for the transformastion.

JesseJ · 29th January 2007, 03:44 AM

take a regular handsaw, clamp it down, mic it, run it trough an guitar amp with a bit distortion, give it a good twang and slow the sample down? maybe add a stomp-pedal flanger?

Mydog_Nixon · 30th January 2007, 02:31 AM

I have the bionic jump in my SFX library so here is an MP3.

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29th September 2006, 03:57 PM	#61
fuzzface777 Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 888	THat porn foley on utube is hilarious! Hey these movie wavs or sounds, are not royalty free are they? So you couldn't use them commercially?

30th September 2006, 04:50 PM	#66
dbbubba Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,904	That's the ride I'm talking about! It's still there? I think I actually stopped and looked at it one time. It was pretty beat looking in 1981! It seems like it was made out of PLYWOOD! I was close to there eating breakfast at that little resturant called Good Friends and at In and Out which my daughter is obsessed with. This was last May. When I lived out there in the early '80s I'd go to places like Barris Custom Cars and Nudie's take in the nostalgic stuff. That was the cool part of Hollywood and that part of L.A. because wierd random TV/movie "things" would pop into your world out of the blue. To this day everytime I fly from DFW to Burbank (2x per year) there is some "celebrity" on the flight. I sat next to Morgan Fairchild last year (we went to highschool together) and Bob Eubanks (gameshow host guy) last May. I once explained proper bias settings for cassettes to Slim Pickens son a flight from LAX to El Paso! That was a great "Hollywood moment" getting to introduce him to my dad as we got off of the plane in Paso! Danny Brown

30th September 2006, 05:00 PM	#67
dbbubba Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,904	That was Slim Pickens HIMSELFF and not his "son." Typo.... DB

30th September 2006, 06:52 PM	#68
BrianK Gear addict Join Date: May 2003 Location: Hollywood Posts: 341	Besides ARK II, it was in the movie Damnation Alley and the TV show "Get a Life" with Chris Elliot, where it was called "Paperboy 2000"! Very funny episode....

1st October 2006, 01:35 AM	#71
initialsBB Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: LA Posts: 747	I just drove by there today and the Ark II is gone! End of an era.

1st October 2006, 05:39 AM	#74
initialsBB Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: LA Posts: 747	WHAT?! They didn't really drive it off the cliff?

1st October 2006, 03:27 PM	#75
dbbubba Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,904	Yeah, I looked for that ARK II thing every time I drove past there in the last few visits. MAYBE IT IS BEING RESTORED? Burned? My wife thinks that Harold and Maude is the greatest movie. Beats me. Danny Brown

1st October 2006, 07:15 PM	#76
quincyg Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,438	not sure if someone mentioned this, but the clean sample is on the hanna barbera sound fx library. for those who don't want the challenge of recreating it.

29th January 2007, 03:32 AM	#77
Ravian Gear addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 401	what about the transformers sound ? how is that made. they are making a movie about the transformers, im curious if they are gonna have the same sound for the transformastion.