Doctor Who: "TARDIS take-off" - the ORIGINAL sound effect!

[goodwolf359]

LMAO I was actually expecting to laugh when I found out what that was they used to make this sound, man its like watching a monkey drink its own piss these old effects these days. :L

[tzhr]

You know what that sound is . . . It's the breaks

I like that sound

[explosionsfun]

Funny, they hadn`t used this sound for a while and then it just popped back in on the christmas special... I was happy.

[dwaynepipe59]

@explosionsfun I heard it on a recent episode - where they actually USED a few seconds of the NEXT bit I said they didn't USE anymore!

[explosionsfun]

@dwaynepipe59 ...What? I`m not sure I follow.

[dwaynepipe59]

@explosionsfun If you listen to my piece, the FAMOUS bit comes first - but then it slides into a bunch of TONES that were new in '62-3 - but quickly became OLD.

Thus they took to ONLY using the first bit - FADING it BEFORE the tones. However, on a recent episode, the sound mixer kept it GOING, so you could hear those tones - for a few seconds - something I hadn't heard since the early Sixties.

I suspect it was a GOOF!

[DomIstKrieg]

Keys. That is amazing. Mind blown.

[LARUCUS]

the sound everyone wants to hear....

[1devo6587]

lol, and still, the Doctor forgets to turn off the parking breaks

[CommissarCain34]

.....he left the brakes on.....

[TheTenatDoctor]

The sound was made by scraping a key down a keyboard key.

..Holy crap.

[dwaynepipe59]

@TheTenatDoctor NO! The piano's STRINGS!!

[angeltears6478]

I always thought that the TARDIS sounded like some Dinosaur.

[twosixteen]

@angeltears6478 Well... she *is* a Type 40.  The old ones are the best.

[sipodge]

Did you know the TARDIS noise sounds the same backwards :P

[animationdude56]

dude this was made in 1963 not 1962 as you said

[dwaynepipe59]

@animationdude56 I THINK it was MADE in '62 - but not AIRED 'til '63. But I could be wrong (it happens!)

[animationdude56]

@dwaynepipe59 well the plans for doctor who were made sometime in 1963, then all the preperation was done by July 1963 but delayed. so I think it was made in 1963. not 62

[dwaynepipe59]

@animationdude56 To be honest, I put this up SO long ago, I can't remember where I got the info from.

However, while Wiki says ep 1 was screened in November, '63 - it says the "preparations" took "a year" - thus this sound effect COULD have been created in '62.

Brian Hodgson was the engineer responsible (he JOINED the Radiophonic Workshop in '62) and is only 73 and STILL LIVING. Maybe HE could shed some light on this? Anyone out there KNOW him???

[animationdude56]

@dwaynepipe59 I guess that until someone asks him we'll never know. I'm only drawing my evidence from the documentaries "Doctor Who : Origins" and "Masters of Sound" on the 'The Edge of Destruction' DVD.

[CheapSushi]

Left the god damn breaks on!

[dwaynepipe59]

@CheapSushi Don't you hate it when that happens?!

[mushroomshrub]

She hasn't changed a bit.

[jubalate]

This sound gives me chills every time I hear it!

[misuruchan]

that is the best freakin sound in the world! XD

[skodas]

no i ment 63

[skodas]

63

[JamieHowitt]

@skodas You mean 62 :P The show aired for the first time in '63, maybe you're getting mixed up?

[dearthcool223]

how did you get this if this is the original copy???

[GrimnEvil4Ever]

@dearthcool223 it came with a dvd i think

[dwaynepipe59]

@dearthcool223 I just popped back to '62!

[tesseract666]

@dwaynepipe59 with your space hopper? or a sports car like the TARDIS?

[animationdude56]

@dearthcool223 i know where he got it. its on the doctor who album 'Doctor Who at the Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1 : The Early Years'. is a great album, but its mostly sound effects. the other volumes focus more on the music. i would recommend it as its a good addition to any whovian's Doctor Who merchandise

[dwaynepipe59]

@animationdude56 Nope! Actually, I got the audio off the Interweb, soon after I got my first computer - so I don't know WHERE it came from - only that it was the ORIGINAL effect, including later stuff that isn't used anymore. The VIDEO component I acquired from a device I also acquired - but have since LOST. The whole I put together for my friends - MONTHS before I started uploading to YouTube. Then I came across it while scanning m'collection for uploads - and figured others might like it.

[dwaynepipe59]

@animationdude56 p.s. Of course, it might very well have ORIGINATED on the album you describe. I think it looks cool with the video though - and to date, 29 people agree with me - plus hopefully, the other seventeen thousand earthlings (and others?) who have stumbled across it too!

[swimmergirl3202004]

@dearthcool223 It doesn't say its the original copy, just that its sound effect.

[dwaynepipe59]

@dearthcool223 I popped into my Police box - then I came back here, a year later...