How to make the laser blaster sound from Star Wars - Part 2

[YetiSandvichVideos]

Awesome. I always wondered how they made that sound effect :P

[DIYdjIDIOT]

this is like another language :(

[h1a1l1l1o]

is that a bavarian towel in the right corner?

Did you visit Bavaria?

I actually live there ;)

[commanderlucifer]

this is like what my dad does when i ask him a question, gets all technical, and im only 13lol

[micolich]

@commanderlucifer You've got a great dad then, lucky you. So many kids these days have parents who will mutter some rubbish or avoid questions entirely, its sad.

Make your dad explain all the technical stuff to you, one day you'll be glad you did.

[jimmybilbo]

Your videos are fantastic.

[zapphodB]

This is a really cool video - Now only if I remembered any physics. Shucks if my prof had explained waves and stuff with star wars, don't think anyone would forget it. Great Job

[RazielKain]

why do you have a .. 1qm Freistaat Bayern ...uhm...tshirt? towel? oO

[micolich]

Yep, its a Freistaat Bayern towel, and it was a leaving present from an excellent young engineering student that I had working with me on exchange a couple of years ago. He didn't have space to pack it, and I needed something to cover my tatty old chair - problem solved...

[RazielKain]

burn it :D

bayern is the unliked part of germany

[cmndrkleev]

ben burt carries his microphone everywhere (Ben burrt=sound design for star wars)

[monkeyman1140]

Hit a tensioning support cable from a radio antenna tower with a crescent wrench. Thats how ILM did it.

[forrest71294]

ohhhhhh i c

well cool video :D

[micolich]

Thanks.

[cryotwin]

I love how you provide an actual paper on the topic you cover. Frequently I find videos or articles that do not provide any source material. Very handy, thank you.

[micolich]

No worries, its actually a really nice paper compared to some. Thorough and relatively well explained. You can see this guy was serious about his experiments.

[forrest71294]

so thats not you?

[micolich]

what's not me?

[forrest71294]

that dood in the video

[micolich]

Yes, the 'dood' in the video is me. The guy I was referring to above was the one who wrote the paper that I showed in the video, Frank Crawford, who was at Berkeley, but died in 2003.