TARDIS sound effect question.

I've tried searching the google groups archive on this one, but like the
TARDIS it is playing up on me.

For me, the TARDIS sound effect has to be the best sci-fi sound effect ever
devised. It seems completely timeless - neither old, nor modern, nor an
obvious child of a certain age. It fits in just as well in 2006 as it did in
1963. Laser, phaser and blaster sound effects have come and gone but the
TARDIS is still there as fresh as it was all those years ago.

But I got wondering... We're all now surely familiar with the different
"take-off" and "landing" effects (the latter simply being a slightly
re-edited and reversed version of the former). However, just when did the
leap get made to use the reversed version as the "landing" sound effect? I
simply don't have a full set of sound-tracks (does a complete set actually
exist?), so it's not something I can answer for myself.

I know for certain that the separate "landing" effect was in use during the
Pertwee era, but not consistently. Sometimes it would be the "take-off"
effect faded out when needed. So I suppose this is a sub-question - at what
point did the sound effect become consistent?

Ah well, small things, small minds.


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  • Re: TARDIS sound effect question.
    ... the ideas I had was actually making the tardis landing and take off quieter. ... deep beneath the console and it would sound, ... console, far off, but at the same time distinct since there is a big opening ... the TARDIS sound effect has to be the best sci-fi sound effect ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: TARDIS sound effect question.
    ... TARDIS it is playing up on me. ... the TARDIS sound effect has to be the best sci-fi sound effect ... I know for certain that the separate "landing" effect was in use during ... I remember it from some Troughton stories at least. ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)