I did it years ago on an old piano I uploaded the video here on RUclips it's just the piano strings like on the video you have seen . On the video I did the camera is facing my TARDIS.. check it out it lasts 15 seconds.
That's coz it still needs all the other elements added to it Sheesh it is the TARDIS there are other sources that explain about the creation of this sound effect like all sound effects you need a basis which here is the door key and the pia I string . Wish people would stop being obtuse about this .😡
It is the TARDIS watch the flaming video for fucks sake it tells you why do people have a hard time realising that this is the TARDIS original raw sound without additional 3ffrcts get it into your craniums .
Did you watch the video ? The sound of the TARDIS is by scraping a door key on 5he bass strings of the piano and it's all cut together with echo feedback and white noise Brian hodgson would tell you exactly 5hey same and there are no bubbles . Honestly I get a little fed up of people saying it sound nothing like the TARDIS well it is
Years ago my friend and I found that scraping a key along the edge of a local dumpster actually made an identical sound to the TARDIS, post processing and all.
The sound was recorded while it was played back with some white noise and the tape was cut and stuck back together and slowed down and using ocilators and echo as well and a bang at the beginning .
One of the most iconic and unique sound effects ever. Unlike many sfx (such as the original Star Trek's photon torpedoes for example) this is SO iconic that it can't possibly be used anywhere else for anything other than a TARDIS.
@@AbsoluteAbsurd It appears a lot of people lack imagination - although to be fair - this short clip fails to communicate all the hard & transformative work that takes place after taking that initial recording.
It is the TARDIS have you never seen or heard in commtaries or read coz the sound was derived from an old piano with the rest added on from ocillators echo and white noise .
Well of course not. This is a demonstration of the base sound used to create the effect. The radiophonic workshop manipulated that sound in various ways before it became the sound we all know.
It is difficult for casual viewers coming to this clip to appreciate that when the BBC Radiophonic workshop created sounds - they took base sounds like this piano wire being scraped, or a electronic tone generator or a metal lampshade being bashed by a hammer - and then did a HUGE amount of very laborious, and often highly manual post-processing on this recording. For instance, by speeding up, slowing down the tape, cutting the tape up and re-editing it, re-recording over itself to add echo and mixing with other sounds. It is amazing what results can come out of this process and what strange eerie, unworldly sounds can come out of mundane objects; but it came at a cost of a huge amount of time and love needing to be poured into the generation of these results.
If you have ever watched footage of the radiophonic workshop in action, you will know that they manipulate the sound in various ways. They don't just use the raw base sound!
@@peterward2275 Well that's the thing man. WHAT exactly have they done to achieve the final effect? What we have here is like a tutorial on how to make pizza with only the tomato being sliced up and then get told "And this is how you make pizza".
It wasn’t Dick Mills who created the TARDIS SFX. Yes he was a member of the Radiophonic Workshop and created the Special Sounds for the show from 1972 but the actual person who created the TARDIS SFX was the original Special Sound composer and member of the Radiophonic Workshop, *Brian Hodgson*
The original TARDIS SOUND was actually done in Ron Graingers "Radiophonic" work shop. It consisted of curtain wire, stretched almost to its li its, across two 3" nals hammered into the workbench. At each end a carbon granule microphone was placed. Then an old penny was scraped along the wire. The mocrophones were of the same type that were then used in the mouthpiece end of a standard GPO type black bakelite telephone. I know this because I was in the workshop with my dad who was a good friend of Ron. Oh, by the way, Ron did replace the mikes back into the two telephones he had borroed them from. But that was not before he had recorde the sound, via those mikes, on an old type Grundig open reel recorder.....in mono. I just thought you make be interested. Little did I know that , pushing 60 years later, I would be building my own Dalek and Tardis to house it in. The Dalek is too big to go through my front door. Great vid thanks.
@@davidmckirdy4063 No David it was definately a curtain wire. I was there, you were not. As far as Ron owning the workshop, I never stated that he did. But I must admit a lot of people thought it was his as he spent so long working in it
If you were there, you will recall that it was Brian Hodgson who created the sound of the Tardis. Utilising his mum’s front door key and a piano frame. I wasn’t there myself, but some one who was there told me. His name? Brian Hodgson.
@Hopper Films and we all know that creators never misremember, mythologise, or argue over the credit of famous pieces of work don't we? And then when those stories are retold second or third hand, like in an Adventure in Space and Time, nothing gets lost or simplified for the purposes of dramatic effect thank goodness.
It does you you listen carefully and also it hasn't been through an oscillator or had echo and feedback at that point . The piano strings is the basis of the TARDIS sound effect . I even recreated the sound years ago and sounded the same I did use an old piano and with modern software on a computer I put it all together.
@@mr_man-to7bv LOL i know what is Doctor Who, i'm asking about this clip in particular, is about some documental of the making of Doctor Who? That was my question xD P.S. To me, the show is as alive as ever, but i undertands that you are from the bunch of people that didn't enjoy the chenge, even when the entire winning formula from the 50 years running show was change, precisely, but ok, i will still enjoy it, dont worry, go and be angry as you like.
an episode where the tardis gets lost and is resummoned by someone scraping a key on a piano wire
I need a piano so I can make the sound of the TARDIS on the strings! I've often thought it might be other things but yup there's your proof.
I did it years ago on an old piano I uploaded the video here on RUclips it's just the piano strings like on the video you have seen . On the video I did the camera is facing my TARDIS.. check it out it lasts 15 seconds.
I noticed that a key was used according to something someone on the comments section of a previous video about that sound effect was made💁🏻♂.
Sounds nothing like the sound
That's coz it still needs all the other elements added to it Sheesh it is the TARDIS there are other sources that explain about the creation of this sound effect like all sound effects you need a basis which here is the door key and the pia I string . Wish people would stop being obtuse about this .😡
@@davidmckirdy4063I’m not being rude, I’m just saying it doesn’t sound like it.
not believing it. sounds nothing like the fucking tardis. this was the 60s so its not like they changed the pitch and speed
Is it just me or does that sound nothing like the tardis sound
It is the TARDIS watch the flaming video for fucks sake it tells you why do people have a hard time realising that this is the TARDIS original raw sound without additional 3ffrcts get it into your craniums .
I love how the sound has been used throughout doctor ever since the start
A lifesize R2-H16! So cool!
How is that made with keys? Where are the bubbly after noises. It's just hard for me to imagine it. They are two different sounds
Did you watch the video ? The sound of the TARDIS is by scraping a door key on 5he bass strings of the piano and it's all cut together with echo feedback and white noise Brian hodgson would tell you exactly 5hey same and there are no bubbles . Honestly I get a little fed up of people saying it sound nothing like the TARDIS well it is
Years ago my friend and I found that scraping a key along the edge of a local dumpster actually made an identical sound to the TARDIS, post processing and all.
I thought it was the sound of a power drill slowed down.
the dalek is worthy
distortion, lower piched and echoed I bet
Brian hodgson didn't quite go into every little detail on its creation.
WOnder what they added to the original sound to get it to sound so epic. They didn't have plugins back then.
The sound was recorded while it was played back with some white noise and the tape was cut and stuck back together and slowed down and using ocilators and echo as well and a bang at the beginning .
@@davidmckirdy4063 Now that I would love to see someone do!
Amazing sound effect, the cool part is that it's so old and still hits the mark.
It wasn't dick mills that created the TARDIS sound it was Brian hodgson.
One of the most iconic and unique sound effects ever. Unlike many sfx (such as the original Star Trek's photon torpedoes for example) this is SO iconic that it can't possibly be used anywhere else for anything other than a TARDIS.
The TARDIS sound ranks right up there with the alien ships in "UFO" and the sounds of the Martian war machines in the original "War of the Worlds"!
i dont hear it
Well it is the TARDIS
i hear it though.
@@AbsoluteAbsurd It appears a lot of people lack imagination - although to be fair - this short clip fails to communicate all the hard & transformative work that takes place after taking that initial recording.
sounds nothing like the tardis sound lol
It is the TARDIS have you never seen or heard in commtaries or read coz the sound was derived from an old piano with the rest added on from ocillators echo and white noise .
@@davidmckirdy4063 sounds nothing like the tardis sound lol
Well of course not. This is a demonstration of the base sound used to create the effect. The radiophonic workshop manipulated that sound in various ways before it became the sound we all know.
It is difficult for casual viewers coming to this clip to appreciate that when the BBC Radiophonic workshop created sounds - they took base sounds like this piano wire being scraped, or a electronic tone generator or a metal lampshade being bashed by a hammer - and then did a HUGE amount of very laborious, and often highly manual post-processing on this recording. For instance, by speeding up, slowing down the tape, cutting the tape up and re-editing it, re-recording over itself to add echo and mixing with other sounds. It is amazing what results can come out of this process and what strange eerie, unworldly sounds can come out of mundane objects; but it came at a cost of a huge amount of time and love needing to be poured into the generation of these results.
fake
my brain is imploding with your genius -_-
I always thought it was the sound of a Russian katyusha rocket truck firing slowed down.
He should have hit a lower string it sounds more like it
Everyone knows it's not the sound of keys rubbing piano strings. It's the doctor keeping the breaks on.
I don’t want to be one of those type of nerds, but I mean…..c’mon! So every single Time Lord kept the brakes on, did they?! (That’s rhetorical, btw.)
@@1978rharris yeah lol
@@1978rharris That's what they say in the show atleast ^^
@@1978rharris only humans turn off the breaks, river is basically a human with regenerations given by the TARDIS, so she turned off the breaks
that was so cringe
How to make a TARDIS sound effect 1. Use an old piano. that's it lol
2. Get a Key. 3. Use the Key to scrape the piano wires.
@@maxkennedy7430 And then process the resulting tape - again, again & again - and then some more.
Come on, sometimes when I blow my nose the sound is closer to the Tardis than this! Interesting to see early footage of Sandi Toksvig though!
This is the inspiration. It’s edited and improved later
Actually, if you put the video on half speed it is really cool to suddenly hear it sound like the TARDIS.
But, how did it go from "scraaaaaaape" to "whooooooooosh?"
I think the sound was deepend and slowed down.
If you have ever watched footage of the radiophonic workshop in action, you will know that they manipulate the sound in various ways. They don't just use the raw base sound!
@@peterward2275 Well that's the thing man. WHAT exactly have they done to achieve the final effect? What we have here is like a tutorial on how to make pizza with only the tomato being sliced up and then get told "And this is how you make pizza".
It wasn’t Dick Mills who created the TARDIS SFX. Yes he was a member of the Radiophonic Workshop and created the Special Sounds for the show from 1972 but the actual person who created the TARDIS SFX was the original Special Sound composer and member of the Radiophonic Workshop, *Brian Hodgson*
Spot on - but Dick was there.
Cool
bad job mate just saying
This is giving me tingles
The original TARDIS SOUND was actually done in Ron Graingers "Radiophonic" work shop. It consisted of curtain wire, stretched almost to its li its, across two 3" nals hammered into the workbench. At each end a carbon granule microphone was placed. Then an old penny was scraped along the wire. The mocrophones were of the same type that were then used in the mouthpiece end of a standard GPO type black bakelite telephone. I know this because I was in the workshop with my dad who was a good friend of Ron. Oh, by the way, Ron did replace the mikes back into the two telephones he had borroed them from. But that was not before he had recorde the sound, via those mikes, on an old type Grundig open reel recorder.....in mono. I just thought you make be interested. Little did I know that , pushing 60 years later, I would be building my own Dalek and Tardis to house it in. The Dalek is too big to go through my front door. Great vid thanks.
Ron grainer did not own the radiophonic workshop and it was piano strings not curtain wire as the basis of the TARDIS sound effect.
@@davidmckirdy4063 No David it was definately a curtain wire. I was there, you were not. As far as Ron owning the workshop, I never stated that he did. But I must admit a lot of people thought it was his as he spent so long working in it
That was nearly 60 years ago your misremembering it was an old piano hell even the an adventure in time and space docu-drama showed it as such
If you were there, you will recall that it was Brian Hodgson who created the sound of the Tardis. Utilising his mum’s front door key and a piano frame. I wasn’t there myself, but some one who was there told me. His name? Brian Hodgson.
@Hopper Films and we all know that creators never misremember, mythologise, or argue over the credit of famous pieces of work don't we? And then when those stories are retold second or third hand, like in an Adventure in Space and Time, nothing gets lost or simplified for the purposes of dramatic effect thank goodness.
Years ago somebody wanted to give me the inner working from a piano. I shouldve taken their offer
It doesn’t sound anything like the tardis it just sounds like nails on a chalkboard
It does you you listen carefully and also it hasn't been through an oscillator or had echo and feedback at that point . The piano strings is the basis of the TARDIS sound effect . I even recreated the sound years ago and sounded the same I did use an old piano and with modern software on a computer I put it all together.
@@davidmckirdy4063 oh my god cool can i hear it?
@@rojansfandoms I may be able to play the raw sound of just the piano strings coz the recreation is stored elsewhere and cannot access it at present.
@@rojansfandoms I uploaded the video of the raw sound for you to view it lasts 14 seconds.
*scratching sounds*
like the blasters from star wars edit wow first time getting 50 likes
That's a slinky
It was done by hitting a wire on some form of pylon I think.
@@phily8093 yes
The light saber was a microphone waved behind an old valve TV.
Not really the same sound but sure
It literally is how they made it, the reason it doesn't sound the same is because the sound team reversed it and, I believe, slowed it somewhat.
@@Althalus2010 it was reverved and somewhat slowed down
Actually it was somewhat reversed and slowed down.
@Crusty Somewhat
They simply just reversed the polarity
Probably half speed with some delay and echo.
That's what I was thinking
Reverb
The strings carry a lot of this reverb effect in harmonics which is what makes this sound how it does
There's a lot more to it than that. Go find some footage of the radiophonic workshop in action.
Nahhh this is actually it. I can hear how its in the sound effect lol. Obviously things were layered over the piano strings, like the theremin sound.
ruclips.net/video/wnlQrdsdtjE/видео.html Check my version but with a guitars
😍i
How are the Timelords able to make a TARDIS traverse both time and space? Well of course, by utilising string theory.
*bumdumtsssssssssssss*
this is genius
Congratulation
Or... they could've used this article by two real physicists: arxiv.org/pdf/1310.7985v1.pdf
The best comment I have ever read
Incredible :-)
What the fuck is this this is stupid and disgusting.😠
How the hell is this disgusting 😂
0:06
Jesus
ruclips.net/video/mukQiGlx_YI/видео.html
@@ethancastagno7121 what
@@sladertater Hahaha
This is from some documental or something??? What is its name? Please
@@mr_man-to7bv LOL i know what is Doctor Who, i'm asking about this clip in particular, is about some documental of the making of Doctor Who? That was my question xD P.S. To me, the show is as alive as ever, but i undertands that you are from the bunch of people that didn't enjoy the chenge, even when the entire winning formula from the 50 years running show was change, precisely, but ok, i will still enjoy it, dont worry, go and be angry as you like.
@gohanmoreno7 who are you talking to?
@@mr_man-to7bv LOL you deleted your comments, clever boy.
@gohanmoreno7 what do you mean, have you gone mad Or something?
@@mr_man-to7bv Nice xD