
If you listen to TOS’ (The Original Series) sounds you can get a good idea what was used to create some of those sounds and so we would make button pushes and electronics out of bird calls, phone rings, animals screams or comedy effects as the originals were.Īt least one sound on the show was copied (or duplicated) Things are far away: there’s these disembodied sounds that are being transmitted back and forthįrom a different interview with Supervising Sound Editor Mark Stoeckinger on Star Trek 2009. It reads to the audience that you’re way the heck out at the edge of the universe, barely in contact. The other thing that was used a lot in the original show a lot was shortwave radio recordings and sounds off of transmissions and Morse code, things you can pick up in-between the dials on a shortwave radio. Every room in the ship sounded different. Two things in the original Star Trek effects were revolutionary: Roddenberry had his team create lots of detail. The bridge background of the 60's was electronic music with sonar beeps.īen Burtt, who worked on the new Star Trek 2009 movie, had this to say about the original sounds in an interview he gave. principally by Jack Finlay, Douglas Grindstaff and Joseph Sorokin."Īs to how it was made, Alan Howarth, who worked on every Star Trek film, has this to say about the Bridge sounds:

Virtually all the sound effects were created exclusively for the television series.

Roddenberry recruited a hand-picked technical crew to create the incredible series. If you believe this site it states that nearly all of the sounds were original to Star Trek (at least one exception, down below).įrom the sleevenotes: "The guiding genius behind this.
