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Douglas Grindstaff’s Sound Effects for the Original ‘Star Trek’

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The original  Star Trek  series, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, boldly went where no series had gone before in terms of sound effects editing.  The universe of the USS Enterprise was alive with sound, much of it musical in nature: computer banks, phasers, transporters, photon torpedoes, communicators, and alien and creature vocals.  Much of that was due to the singular vision of writer/producer Gene Roddenberry, along with the inventiveness of Douglas H. Grindstaff, who served as the show’s supervising sound effects editor for the entire 80-episode run.

Grindstaff, who entered the industry in 1954 after service in the Korean War, won five Emmy Awards for his television sound work as well as the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.  He also headed the sound departments at Paramount Studios, Lorimar Telepictures, Columbia Studios and Pacific Sound before his retirement in 1990.

“When I went to work on the series, Gene described to me what he wanted the Enterprise to sound like,” Grindstaff recalls.  “I asked him if he didn’t think we were getting a little too ‘cartoony’ with the sound effects, and he told me, ‘Doug, I want you to think like an artist and paint everything with sound.’  That’s what he wanted, and that’s why the show sounded the way it did.  He had a very strong vision; you had to give him what he wanted, but you also had to use your own instinct about what should be.  You were either on his wavelength or you weren’t.”

Grindstaff and his crew built their tracks mainly from some material in the Paramount and Desilu sound effects libraries, as well as their own personal libraries.  Additional sounds came from Paramount’s 1953 version of  War of the Worlds .  Sadly, the library he meticulously created, bundled and catalogued is now lost to history.

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Working with small TV budgets, Grindstaff maximized what he had.  For example, to create the shimmering, musical sound of the Enterprise transporter, he blended together a few musical effects and electric generator sounds.  Then, on a Moviola, he would create his own fades by shaving the mag sound with a razor blade at the desired point, a technique he learned from the late George Emich, who was Fred Astaire’s music editor at RKO, and who is co-credited with applying the click track to music editing.  “I created my own fades because I didn’t trust the mixers to get it the way I wanted it,” Grindstaff laughed.  “We also did all our own Foley and ADR looping.”

Other sounds were just as inventive.  At Roddenberry’s insistence, each planet visited by the Enterprise had to have its own sound, and for these, Grindstaff would use variations of an orchestra tuning up.  In one legendary episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Grindstaff used screech-owls, doves and rat “vocals” for the voices of the furry pets, who came aboard the Enterprise and began reproducing at an alarming rate.  “I had to go from a single Tribble to the sounds of thousands of them filling the ship,” he says.  “I ran them backwards and forwards, put them on the variable speeder and edited loops, so I could have multiple tracks and mix them at different levels for different spots in the ship.”

The schedule was brutal.  “You were making things every week, and that was the tough part,” he recalls.  “I’d try and get as much ready as I could a couple of weeks before we got an episode, so that when the show was turned over to the editors, I had the sound effects pretty well set, and could tell them the right spots to put everything.  I also always insisted on having a sound effects editor at every mix.”

Nearly ten years after the Enterprise concluded its five-year mission, Grindstaff was offered a job by Roddenberry on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).  He turned it down.  “Not long before that, I had gone to see Star Wars , and I flipped out,” he says.  “I just said to myself, ‘Man, we blew it; we should have made a Star Trek movie a lot sooner.’  But I sure intend to go see this one.”  Was he aware that he was creating something entirely new in sci-fi sound effects?  “Hardly; I was too busy working for Gene.”

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Kittens, Kisses, And Razorblades: Behind Star Trek's Iconic Sounds

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Kittens, Kisses, And Razorblades: Behind Star Trek's Iconic Sounds

It may be true that in space no one can hear you scream, but in the  Star Trek  universe, space is a fairly cacophonous place filled with explosions, starships warping across the galaxy, phasers firing, and  grunting lizard men  engaged in mortal combat with the heroic Capt. James T. Kirk. Some of these effects are among the most memorable ever created for the medium that FCC chief Newton Minow once famously referred to as “a vast wasteland.”  

Back in 1966, Doug Grindstaff, sound mixer for the original  Star Trek  series, didn't realize at the time he was making TV history. In fact, he didn't even have a parking pass on the Desilu lot. Laughing about it now, he says he had the art department forge and laminate a pass for him, prompting studio executive Herbert F. Solow to proclaim, “You guys are really creative.” 

How creative they were is abundantly clear to anyone who has ever seen — or heard — the original series. The wall-to-wall sound effects were created in an analog world in which all audio was cut and mixed on magnetic tape, long before the advent of software-based sound tools. Each of the Enterprise sets had its own sonic “feel” — the chirp and ping of various sensors and instruments on the bridge, the throb of power in the transporter room and the deeper sound of power generators in engineering. This created the illusion of a massive space vessel where every part of the ship had its own distinct aural environment. The show’s space effects, while expertly done, were simple, so the rumble of the Enterprise’s engines and the sounds of phasers, photon torpedoes, and other energy forces (while they wouldn't really be heard in the vacuum of space) helped create the illusion of real, futuristic technology at work.  

“I think the sound effects for the original  Star Trek  are probably the most memorable and iconic ever produced for television.” 

“The first season we had about 10 editors,” recalls Grindstaff, who worked on all three seasons of the original  Star Trek  as well as the two pilots “ The Cage ” (the original pilot) and “ Where No Man Has Gone Before .”

“I said, ‘This is ridiculous. I can do it with three editors if you give me good men and myself. That’s all I need. Get the others out of here,’” says Grindstaff. “Then I had three editors and myself and we did the show. But what I would do is create the stuff and then they would put it in. It just worked. On the original pilot, I would get in at 7 o’clock and [executive producer] Gene Roddenberry would be there. I would get out at 2 o'clock the next morning. That’s a long day. And you’d work Saturday, Sunday, holidays. Nothing mattered. I enjoyed it. The people you were working with were great.”

“I think the sound effects for the original  Star Trek  are probably the most memorable and iconic ever produced for television,” offers Jeff Bond, the author of  The Music of Star Trek  and a distinguished Trekspert. “They were done at a time when people watched television sets that mostly had a single, small, monophonic speaker, and when there was nothing like the immersive, multi-layered sound mixes that movies started getting in the late '70s, and which television showcases today. The show’s sound editors Douglas Grindstaff, Jack Finlay, and Joseph Sorokin not only created extremely innovative and unique-sounding effects, they also created entire sonic environments for the starship Enterprise and the different planets the ship would visit.”

Grindstaff, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for the first season, first came to Hollywood upon returning from Korea, at the behest of his brother, who was working in radio. He first heard of a new pilot called  Star Trek  in 1965 while working on another series called  Swinging Summer,  a precursor to  Charlie’s Angels . “I was over at Goldwyn Studios when the phone rang and the head of the sound department introduced me on the phone to Gene Roddenberry. Gene had heard about me, and they needed someone to come over and help them on  Star Trek.  Gene was really into sound. On one episode that Gene liked very much, he sent me a memo with 11 pages of notes handwritten about the sound.”

 Courage even created the familiar “swish” of the Enterprise for the opening title sequence by blowing air across a microphone himself.

“There was a wonderful musicality to the consoles — the whistles and clicks,” says Lukas Kendall, publisher of  Film Score Monthly  and a producer on a number of  Star Trek soundtrack releases. “The sound effects got the balance just right between acoustic and electronic, futuristic yet timeless. There was a sonar ping to the viewscreen that you can practically whistle to yourself, it’s so melodic. It created this sense of a wondrous future where technology was our friend and not something to be feared.” 

“One of the reasons that the show’s effects are so distinctive and memorable is that they are often musical, and that goes back to the first composer who created music for the series, Alexander Courage,” says Bond. “When Courage was working on the show’s first pilot, ‘The Cage,’ he was assisted by a man named Jack Cookerly, one of the session keyboardists, who had modified one of the electric organs of the period to make strange ‘electronic’ sounds.”

“A lot of the sound effects were generated by musical means at the end of recording sessions with the orchestra,” says Kendall. “Cookerly had a device he called a ‘music box’ — a reconstructed Hammond organ — that laid the basic tracks for the transporter effects, the medical scanners in sickbay, and other sounds.” 

During the recording sessions, Courage took the time with Cookerly and some of the session musicians to create sound effects for the show, including the transporter sound, strange atmospheric and wind-chime sounds for the planet surface, the weird “thunk” of Capt. Christopher Pike (later to become Capt. Kirk) hurling himself against a transparent barrier confining him in an alien zoo, and numerous other sounds. Courage even created the familiar “swish” of the Enterprise for the opening title sequence by blowing air across a microphone himself. 

“Gene Roddenberry wanted to paint the whole show like you were painting a picture,” says Grindstaff. “And he wanted sounds everywhere. One time I asked him, ‘Don't you think we're getting too cartoony?’Because I felt it should be a little more dignified, but he wanted sound for everything. For example, I worked on one scene where [Dr. McCoy] is giving someone a shot. Gene says, ‘Doug, I'm missing one thing. The doctor injects him and I don't hear the shot.’I said, ‘You wouldn't hear a shot, Gene.’He said, ‘No, no, this is  Star Trek , we want a sound for it.’So I turned around to the mixing panel and I said, ‘Do you guys have an air compressor?’And they did. I fired up the air compressor, squirted it for a long enough period by the mic, went upstairs, played with it a little bit, and then put it in the show. And Gene loved it. So, that’s how Gene was. He didn't miss nothing!”

“The pneumatic ‘whoosh’ of the doors sliding open became a running joke in  Airplane II  with William Shatner.”

Adds Bond, “Later they adapted and expanded on these sounds, often using the tones of an electric organ [the first keyboard synthesizers were enhanced versions of these instruments and became available to the show’s composers during the second season]. The recorded tones had to be manipulated by using tape techniques — speeding up, slowing down, adding reverb or echoes to the tones. Some of the familiar effects came from Paramount’s own sound-effects library. The photon torpedo sound was originally created for the “skeleton ray” in George Pal’s  War of the Worlds , and some other  Trek  sound effects can be heard in the low budget sci-fi movie  The Space Children.  The effects, like the show’s music, were crucial in creating its verisimilitude. The show’s planet sets, created on a soundstage, couldn't reproduce the scope of a real exterior or even of a bigger-budgeted film production, so the ambient sounds helped to convince viewers they were in an alien environment.

"So many of the sounds became part of the culture,” says Kendall. “We all know what the transporter sounds like, and the phasers and the communicators. Much like actors, they had great personality and were easy to remember. The pneumatic ‘whoosh’ of the doors sliding open became a running joke in  Airplane II  with William Shatner."

Other iconic sounds in  Star Trek  included the Tribbles. In the case of  these famous furry and fertile pets , Grindstaff took the sound of a dove and played with it. Says Grindstaff, “You'd slow it down, you'd speed it up, turn it backwards, stick a razorblade on the mag [audiotape track]. I would use scissors to cut it. I would use sandpaper. I would use emory board. I would use steel wool. Anything that I could do to make things work. And you could take a sound and you could speed it up and speed it up again and again and a new sound would come out."

Other classic sounds Grindstaff created for the series include the sound of the neural parasites in the episode “Operation: Annihilate,” made by sampling about a hundred kisses, a secret he refused to share with his producers. Meanwhile in “Catspaw,” featuring an ominous giant black cat, Grindstaff brought in a dog to antagonize the cat that provided the required hiss. In “Amok Time,” the Vulcan gong was a combination of a guitar’s electronic twang and the sound of the actual gong being struck on set.

"The sound effects were so brilliant in selling the futuristic environment that they liberated the music scores to focus on the storytelling,” says Kendall. “Sci-fi scores until that point often had eerie theremins and atmospheres, but Roddenberry wanted the scores to emphasize timeless human drama."

So why, after five decades, does  Star Trek  continue to endure? It’s a mystery even to those who worked on the original show. “If I had only known, I would have kept stuff like you wouldn't believe,” laughs Grindstaff. “But I didn't realize it. No one did.”

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Star Trek is an American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series ( TOS ) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.

The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), First Officer and Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Chief Medical Officer Leonard 'Bones' McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose:

The series was produced from September 1966 to December 1967 by Norway Productions and Desilu Productions, and by Paramount Television from January 1968 to June 1969. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969, and was actually seen first on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network. Star Trek's Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network cancelled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. Several years later, the series became a hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1970s, achieving cult classic status and a developing influence on popular culture. Star Trek eventually spawned a franchise, consisting of eight television series, 13 feature films, and numerous books, games, and toys, and is now widely considered one of the most popular and influential television series of all time. The series contains significant elements of Space Western, as described by Roddenberry and the general audience.

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Very few programs in television history can be easily identified by their sound effects alone. The original 1966-69 run of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek belongs in that select fraternity, thanks to the efforts of sound mixer Doug Grindstaff and other craftsmen who toiled on the classic science-fiction series, setting the tone for the multimedia franchise to come. The sound effects on Star Trek are as cool as they are relentless. This is, in short, a noisy version of space exploration. Despite the supposed lack of oxygen in the vast reaches of the cosmos, the onslaught of beeps, bleeps, pings, clicks, and whooshes never really stops during the average Trek episode. And that’s wholly by design. Over at Audible Range , having interviewed Grindstaff and other experts on the topic, writer Mark Altman has assembled a revealing historical article entitled “ Kittens, Kisses, And Razorblades: Behind Star Trek ’s Iconic Sounds .” Here, to set the proper mood, is some genuine LBJ-era Trek ambiance.

According to the article, the show had “wall-to-wall sound effects” because Roddenberry wanted it that way. Cacophony was very much part of the Star Trek brand. In those early days, the TV series did not have the budget to compete with feature films, so sound effects helped create the illusion that scenes were taking place on strange alien worlds. Roddenberry wasn’t aiming for realism but drama. So committed was Roddenberry to this idea that he even had Grindstaff add a sound effect to a scene in which Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) administers a shot. “Gene Roddenberry wanted to paint the whole show like you were painting a picture,” Grindstaff explains.

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Some tricks of the trade are also revealed here. Composer Alexander Courage, who created the original music for Star Trek , was hugely important in determining how the series would sound, working hand in hand with effects people to create weird, often electronic-based noises. Certain noises, however, were decidedly low-tech. When the Enterprise swooshes across the screen during the opening credits, for instance, that’s Courage himself blowing into a microphone. The sound of the Tribbles, meanwhile, came from doves, while the parasites of “ Operation: Annihilate ” were represented by “sampling about a hundred kisses.” Fascinating, Captain.

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Hear 13 iconic Star Trek sounds created by the late Douglas Grindstaff

Listen to a Tribble cooing and a phaser blasting and remember the man who made it happen.

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  • Co-author of two Gen X pop-culture encyclopedia for Penguin Books. Won "Headline Writer of the Year"​ award for 2017, 2014 and 2013 from the American Copy Editors Society. Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism.

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The Tribbles' distinctive coos were created by Douglas Grindstaff.

Douglas Grindstaff, the man responsible for many of the signature sounds in the original Star Trek TV series, died July 23 at age 87, StarTrek.com reported .

"Please join us in remembering Douglas Grindstaff, the award-winning sound editor and designer behind many iconic  #StarTrek  sounds," reads a tweet from the show's official Twitter account.

Please join us in remembering Douglas Grindstaff, the award-winning sound editor and designer behind many iconic #StarTrek sounds #TOS #StarTrekFamily #StarTrekRemembers https://t.co/J0qxlSo1AQ pic.twitter.com/XncRDozxmT — Star Trek (@StarTrek) July 25, 2018

Grindstaff and co-workers Joseph Sorokin and Jack Finlay teamed up to deliver all the background sounds and effects on the fabled CBS show, which ran from 1966-1969. (CBS is CNET's parent company.)  In 1967, Grindstaff was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Individual Achievements in Film and Sound Editing category.

Fans appreciated Grindstaff's work. "He made the Enterprise come alive," wrote Twitter user Kelly Key. "The background buzz on the bridge always reminded me of crickets and cicadas from a field on a summer night -- full of life and activity."

He made the Enterprise come alive. The background buzz on the bridge always reminded me of crickets and cicadas from a field on a summer night-full of life and activity. — Kelly Key (@KellywrtrKey) July 25, 2018
May the stars always shine brightly down on DG. May the songs of the universe call his name. — Ann Flynt (@AnnFlynt) July 25, 2018
a talented man - RIP : were his beautiful ambient sounds ever available on some kind of mp3 ? did they ever do that - its very theraputic stuff - please advize — JonjackJones (@JackJohnCarter) July 25, 2018
Why must all the great people die...RIP Douglas ♡ — san || 🖖 (@triwizardkirk) July 26, 2018

Grindstaff is survived by his wife Marcia, his three children and her three children, and by 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, with more on the way. Grindstaff, a Korean War combat veteran, also worked on such shows as The Brady Bunch, Dallas and Mission: Impossible.

Take a listen to some of the memorable sounds Grindstaff helped bring to life.

1. Red alert klaxon

Set this one up on your iPhone for the most unnerving wake-up alarm ever.

2. Transporter sounds

Some of us seriously thought this would be the transportation of the future. Still waiting though.

3. Tribbles cooing

Poor Kirk just wanted his chicken sandwich and coffee, Tribble-free.

4. Phasers firing

Some of us may've made these noises while running around the backyard pointing random objects at our neighbors. 

5. Bridge doors

Modern doors just don't close with this satisfying swoosh.

6. Boatswain's whistle

On the original show, the boatswain's (pronounced BEAU-son's) whistle was used to open shipboard communications via the ship's intercom. You'll know it when you hear it.

7. Heartbeats

Dr. McCoy probably heard a lot of these in sick bay.

8. Hull hit

That sounds like a bad one. 

9. Inside the shuttle craft

Lots of sounds share space inside the shuttle.

10. Sick bay scanners

These sound a little bit like a plaintive waterfowl calling to its mate.

11. Warp drive

Brace yourself: Warp speed, Mr. Sulu.

12. Food and drink synthesizer

Kirk was more of a coffee achiever, but later on, Jean-Luc Picard would demand his "Earl Grey, hot."

13. Open a hailing frequency

Nichelle Nichols' Lt. Uhura, the Enterprise's communications officer, was a pioneering character.

First published July 30, 4:29 p.m. PT.  Update, July 31, 1:09 p.m. PT:  Adds some of Grindstaff's most iconic sounds.  

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1. Enterprise Bridge Sequence 2. Enterprise Doors Open into Corridor 3. Enterprise Doors Open into Transporter Room 4. Transporter Energize 5. Dematerialization 6. Materialization 7. Alien Planet Surface 8. Communicator Beeps 9. Dematerialization #2 10. Materialization-In Trouble 11. Transporter Background #2 12. Enterprise Doors Open into Bridge 13. Red Alert Klaxon 14. Warp Drive 15. Spock’s Viewer on the Bridge 16. Buttons on Bridge 17. Main Viewing Screen 18. Viewing Screen Magnification 19. Phaser Firing Switch 20. Enterprise Phasers Firing (3 Blasts) 21. Phasers Striking Hull 22. Photon Torpedo (3 Blasts) 23. Phasers Striking Deflector Shields 24. Stratos Torture Ray Bombardment 25. Food & Drink Synthesizer 26. Sickbay Scanner 27. Sickbay Scanner #2 (Heartbeats) 28. Heartbeats 29. Spectro-Analysis Viewer 30. Main Viewing Screen (from Star Trek Animated Series) 31. Many Tribbles 32. Tribble Coos 33. Tribble Predator (Animated Series) 34. Tribble Violent Reaction 35. Atavacron 36. Boatswain Whistle 37. Alien Planet Atmosphere #2 38. Astrogator on Bridge 39. Garbled Radio Message 40. Romulan Ship Interior 41. Garbled Communicator Static 42. Bridge Scanner 43. M-5 Computer 44. Lab Scanner 45. Garbled Radio Signal #2 46. Disruptor Hits on Hull 47. Subterranean Elevator (Long) 48. Subterranean Elevator (Short) 49. Garbled Radio Signal #3 (Animated Series) 50. Engineering Room Interior 51. Comedy Background FX 52. Library Computer on Bridge 53. Eminar 7 Battle Computer 54. Red Alert Klaxon (Animated Series) 55. Red Alert Klaxons #2 56. Red Alert Klaxons #3 57. Warp Drive Malfunctioning 58. Warp Drive Acceleration #2 59. Warp Drive Acceleration & Deceleration 60. Transporter Dematerialization 61. Transporter Materialization 62. Hand Held Medical Scanner 63. Red Alert Klaxons #4 64. Bridge Sequence #2 65. Bridge Buttons #2 66. Enterprise Doors 67. Hand Phaser 68. Phaser Bank 69. Shuttlecraft Interior

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Star Wars Movies In Order: How To Watch Release Order, Chronologically & With The TV Shows

Han solo's blaster apparently uses the force (seriously), all 23 tie fighter models & variants in canon.

  • Lightsabers' iconic sound: interlocking motors hum, enhanced by old TV tube noise and dry ice clashing. Actor's favorite!
  • AT-AT march: stamping feet are metal shearing machines, rhythmic engine sound from an oil derrick. TIE Fighters are just elephants!
  • Wookiee speech made of 4 bears, lion, badger, and walrus. R2-D2's voice required a year of work and experimentation - a real performance!

How were some of the most memorable and iconic sounds in the Star Wars original trilogy made? We tend to underestimate the importance of sound effects when making movies, but the best sound engineers spend months and perhaps even years looking for just the right sound. When George Lucas began work on the Star Wars original trilogy, he hired some real trailblazers - including sound engineer Ben Burtt. Since then, Burtt and his team have constantly done the rounds, revealing secrets of their stunning sound effects.

Fans may often wonder how lightsabers work , but how was the unforgettable sound of the lightsaber created? Where do the ominous background noises of the Death Star come from? Here's a guide to some of the most iconic sound effects in the Star Wars original trilogy, from TIE Fighters to Wookiee roars.

What's the best way to watch Star Wars? Here's everything you need to know to watch in release or timeline order, and how to include the TV shows.

10 The AT-AT Walking

Sound designer ben burtt put himself in the line of fire - literally.

Who can forget the intimidating sound of the AT-AT marching across the frozen wasteland of Hoth? There are actually two components here, though; the rhythmic sound of the engines and the stamping of the feet. Both were recorded by sound engineer Randy Thom. As Burtt explained in an interview with StarWars.com :

"There was the stamping of the feet and the rhythmic sound of the engines, and that really came from two different sources. I think Randy [Thom] recorded the elements for both. One were the metal shearing machines [at an Oakland factory]... a place where a sheet of metal comes down a conveyor belt and then it would get stamped, knocked into different shapes, or embossed with a pattern. It ]made] a big stamp. And Randy started recording those, and we sent him back a second time. There was a nice variation of heavy stamping that had some clickety-clacks to it….The other element on the walkers which is running constantly is an oil derrick pumping."

The weight of the foot was created by recording the sound of exploding artillery shells at a shooting range in Oklahoma. Burtt settled in a trench near the target, and recorded actual high explosive shells as they were fired. It must have been an incredible experience.

9 Blaster Fire

The most unlikely origin story of all.

Star Wars ' blasters are among the most memorable sound effects, and they essentially set the pattern for almost all science-fiction movies and shows afterwards. Burtt was inspired by a hike in Pennsylvania on a vacation during the early stages of production, and he walked beneath a radio tower with large guy wires. His pack caught on a guy wire, making a twanging sound , and he felt it was otherworldly enough to work as a laser sound.

Returning to Los Angeles, he explored the area, banging on guy wires until he found a sound he liked. The sound effects were ultimately recorded at a radio tower out in the Mohave desert, at a small radio station with a broken-down tower next to it. There was one unprotected cable that twanged in the way he liked, and it became the basic sound for all blasters.

Star Wars has revealed some blasters are blessed by the Force - and it's likely Han Solo's is one of them. So much for a hokey religion--!

How a real language influenced Star Wars

Jawas have been part of Star Wars since the beginning, and their speech is inspired by recordings of Zulu speech patterns. They became the prototype for how Star Wars developed alien languages and alien voices; Burtt listened to tapes from around the world, and he sampled real languages that sounded unusual but came with unique historic and cultural details that helped shape them.

This has always been one of the most fascinating differences between Star Wars and Star Trek , which is notable for its universal translator. That device serves as a unifying influence, preventing communication problems - a major theme in Star Trek: Discovery season 4 - but Lucas envisioned a galaxy where individual races were much more separate and distinct. Those iconic Jawa sounds have remained part of Star Wars to this day, playing a major role in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett .

7 The Tauntaun In The Empire Strikes Back

Alas, the poor tauntaun.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back in 2020, Ben Burtt dredged up his old notes for an interview on the official Star Wars website. Checking through, he found scribbled notes recording the origin of the Tauntaun - an Asian Sea Otter recorded at a game farm to the south of San Francisco . " The sea otter had a very high-pitched squawking and the nice thing about it was that it almost sounded like it was talking, " he explained.

The sound wasn't quite perfect; Burtt played around with it a little, slowing it down to create the distinctive Tauntaun. Amusingly, as he rifled through the notes, Burtt found that he'd named the sea otter - "Mota" - but he'd neglected to jot down the exact location. " What kinda notes are these, Ben?! " he quipped. That secret, it seems, is lost in the mists of time.

6 The Death Star Background Sounds

The ominous presence of the death star explained.

There's a low rumble, a rhythmic pounding whenever the first Star Wars movie visits the Death Star . That was a deliberate decision, an attempt to create an artificial heartbeat that made it sound like it was almost alive - and powerful. The pervasive background sound is so easy to miss, but it results in a sense of oppression and intimidation, just as Ben Burtt had hoped.

The klaxon on the Death Star is believed to be an old klaxon from the British Navy, which probably meant the sound was rather more familiar to some original viewers than it would be today. Many other sounds were recorded at Mount Palomar Observatory, with Burtt recording the motors that rotated the telescope and shutters - in what he described as a " huge, echoey space. "

5 TIE Fighters

Wait, elephants.

Space may be a vacuum, but Star Wars ignore real-world physics by putting sound effects in space. Lucas didn't mind; as far as he was concerned, this was science-fantasy and not science-fiction. Because Lucasfilm was working with Fox, the studio had access to an impressive library of sounds, and Burtt's team raided it for inspiration for the TIE Fighters.

Incredibly, the TIE Fighters aren't ships or planes at all. They're actually from old recordings of elephants stampeding , which seems the most unlikely idea but works surprisingly well. Those recordings were sped up or slowed down a little, and then mixed with the sound of a car driving on wet pavement. Such combinations are a true measure of the genius of Burtt and his team, their ability to blend the most unlikely sounds together so well.

The standard TIE Fighter in Star Wars has several variations and models with an array of different capabilities in the galaxy far, far away.

4 Wookiee Roars

George lucas' foundation sound.

" I knew the sound was part of the foundation of what the movie was going to be, " George Lucas observed in an interview released in Midge Costin's Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound . In the end, Wookiee speech became a blend of recordings from four bears, a badger, a lion, a seal, and a walrus from Long Beach . The problem, according to Ben Burtt, was the need to create a sound that could believably come from a mouth like Chewbacca's.

Burtt wandered around obtaining recordings of different creatures, looking for anything that felt right. " Out of all these recordings you could extract little bits of sound, little grunts, moans, and ughs and arghs and purring sounds, whatever it might be. I collected and put all on one tape all these sounds that had emotional feelings associated with them, " Burtt explained in one production video. " I had these categories of little sounds that each had an emotional tone associated with it. I began cutting those together to get a sense of speech out of Chewy. "

3 R2-D2's Wonderful "Speech"

Why star wars' beloved droid took a year of hard work.

The "voice" of R2-D2 was Ben Burtt's hardest task - and took about a year of work and experimentation . For Burtt, the core problem was that this involved a performance, meaning he wanted the sounds to evoke a sense of character. Unlike Chewbacca, there was no moving mouth to match the sounds to, meaning viewers would engage with R2-D2 purely from his sounds.

George Lucas' script described R2-D2 as beeping, buzzing, and whistling, and it was clear that these sounds were supposed to be conversational - especially with C-3PO. Lucas himself toyed with the idea of a baby's cooing, but in the end Burtt hit upon it by playing notes on a keyboard and making vocalizations as he played; he combined his voice with the synthesizer, playing the sounds out on speakers and re-recording them so they had the quality of being in a real place and felt natural.

2 Darth Vader's Breathing

How peter pan inspired star wars' most iconic villain.

Darth Vader's breathing is one of the most iconic sound effects in Star Wars history - so much so that Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 's post-credits basically play that sound. The script described Darth Vader's life support suit, and Burtt thought about the ticking of the crocodile in Peter Pan when he was originally designing this . He wanted there to be a sound that told viewers Darth Vader was present, and considered beeping and clicking from the life support.

This proved to be too much, and Burtt reduced it to just the breathing. This was Burtt himself, recorded at a local scuba shop when he breathed into different tanks. He placed a recorder inside the regulators, close to the valves, and it was slightly slowed down from the original recording for effect.

1 Lightsaber Sound Effects

The sound that defines star wars.

The lightsaber sound is one of the most famous in Star Wars . Even actors are unable to resist making the humming sound when they pick up a lightsaber - it's even caused problems with filming. They are the brainchild of Ben Burtt, who put them ahead of his tasks to create voices for R2-D2 and Chewbacca. He was wise to do so, because the lightsabers have proved to be the key to Star Wars ' popularity.

The main noise is the hum of interlocking motors. But this is complemented by t he strange humming noise made when Burtt moved a microphone close to an old television set's picture tube . This was then played through a loudspeaker, with Burtt swinging the microphone near to the picture tube. The clashing sound of lightsabers striking one another comes from another addition, a mix of a stick being forced into dry ice and a vacuum cleaner.

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