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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DoorNumberFour on April 23, 2006, 01:53:49 PM
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You know how, when someone makes a match on the 60s Match Game, you hear that low, dull *clung* and then the standard *ding*?
What makes that sound?
Is it the name trilons on the front of the desk?
Or am I just hearing things?
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The dull *clung*, I mean.
I know about the *ding*.
The *clung*, not the *ding*. =)
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You know how, when someone makes a match on the 60s Match Game, you hear that low, dull *clung* and then the standard *ding*?
What makes that sound?
<smartass>The "ding" is made by a bell. The "clung" is Ted Cooper breaking wind.</smartass>
Veal.
I miss Ted. I wish he were still with us. I would ask him this question.
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I think the "clung" is the loud sound made when the contestant's name plate flips around to show "MATCH" and the ding is the scoreboard adding another 25 points.
It sounds roughly like an electric motor flipping the plate; there could be an electromagnet to hold it in place as the game continues.
Of course, I was 10 at the time.
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That's an awfully loud motor.
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Indeed it is.
That's what I thought it was, actually; my thought was more along of the lines of a hammer-bell combo hiding behind that trilon.
But whatever works. =)
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'116921\' date=\'Apr 24 2006, 07:47 PM\']
Indeed it is.
That's what I thought it was, actually; my thought was more along of the lines of a hammer-bell combo hiding behind that trilon.
But whatever works. =)
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According to my childhood recollection, it wasn't so much a "clung" as a "buh-ZAT!" sound. I'm sure it was a sound effect, just like the "ding!"
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[quote name=\'MrBuddwing\' post=\'117028\' date=\'Apr 26 2006, 02:21 AM\']
[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'116921\' date=\'Apr 24 2006, 07:47 PM\']
Indeed it is.
That's what I thought it was, actually; my thought was more along of the lines of a hammer-bell combo hiding behind that trilon.
But whatever works. =)
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According to my childhood recollection, it wasn't so much a "clung" as a "buh-ZAT!" sound. I'm sure it was a sound effect, just like the "ding!"
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To me, it just seemed like it was the actual sound of the trilon turning over. The only bell was when the score strip lit up--which of course was added by the sound effects man.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'117048\' date=\'Apr 26 2006, 12:44 PM\']
To me, it just seemed like it was the actual sound of the trilon turning over. The only bell was when the score strip lit up--which of course was added by the sound effects man.
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Ah, but then why didn't the "trilons" make the same sound when they were flipped back to the "name" position? I suspect when the trilon (interesting term) was flipped to say "MATCH," it was done with some device that also triggered a sound effect.
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Actually, in one episode, I caught the trilon turning back to the name side.
It resets slowly; maybe that's why you don't hear a sound when it turns back.
Oh, and for MrBuddwing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilon (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilon\")
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It's simple, really; if you have an electromagnet, it only operates to flip the sign to the MATCH side; when it goes back, the magnet loses its power and the card goes back.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'117145\' date=\'Apr 27 2006, 07:25 AM\']
It's simple, really; if you have an electromagnet, it only operates to flip the sign to the MATCH side; when it goes back, the magnet loses its power and the card goes back.
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And one could extrapolate from there that with that technology, the charge probably drained out slowly, which explains the slower flip-back on the card.
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Well, the whole thing was an added sound effect, cued by the reveal of a correct matching response. And that's easy to verify, because although the same type of displays were used, the sound effect is noticeably different in the pilot than it is on the subsequent regular series episodes.
And of course, the **ding** is easy; but the first part always reminded me of the sound of some sort of cash register motor.
There are a few sounds from my youth that instantly bring back memories, and that's one of my favorites.
-Kevin
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There are a few sounds from my youth that instantly bring back memories, and that's one of my favorites.
Would you care to share a wav file of it?
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Kevin, you are right on the money with the cash register motor sound effect. My mom says I used to drive her crazy running around the house saying "whoosh-ding." The whoosh started with a "d" sound, though.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'117223\' date=\'Apr 27 2006, 06:34 PM\']
There are a few sounds from my youth that instantly bring back memories, and that's one of my favorites.
Would you care to share a wav file of it?
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Chris:
The sad, pathetic part is that I actually **did** have an excerpt of a 1964 episode on my computer... so I've ripped the soundtrack of the clip to an .mp3 file.
If someone wants to host it, I'll be happy to forward it by email. It's about three minutes long.
I didn't happen to have a copy of the pilot at hand, but I'm sure that someone else can offer up a sample of it, if folks want to compare.
-Kevin
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Two Inch Quad wrote:
The sad, pathetic part is that I actually **did** have an excerpt of a 1964 episode on my computer... so I've ripped the soundtrack of the clip to an .mp3 file.
Why is that sad and pathetic? ;-)
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I've ripped the soundtrack of the clip to an .mp3 file.
If someone wants to host it, I'll be happy to forward it by email. It's about three minutes long.
Make it a wav file and I'll try to extract the sound effects from it. You can email me through the board.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'117309\' date=\'Apr 29 2006, 11:12 AM\']
I've ripped the soundtrack of the clip to an .mp3 file.
If someone wants to host it, I'll be happy to forward it by email. It's about three minutes long.
Make it a wav file and I'll try to extract the sound effects from it. You can email me through the board.
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If you have Audacity or Goldwave or something installed, you should be able to open the file as a native MP3, do whatever sound extraction you like, and save those extractions to any sound format you have a codec installed for. Goldwave is shareware, but Audacity is free as in beer: http://audacity.sourceforge.net (http://\"http://audacity.sourceforge.net\").
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'117312\' date=\'Apr 29 2006, 01:26 PM\']
If you have Audacity or Goldwave or something installed, you should be able to open the file as a native MP3, do whatever sound extraction you like, and save those extractions to any sound format you have a codec installed for. Goldwave is shareware, but Audacity is free as in beer: http://audacity.sourceforge.net (http://\"http://audacity.sourceforge.net\").
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The program is actually "free as in speech (http://\"http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/\")." Hardly anything on SourceForge (http://\"http://sourceforge.net/docs/about\") is "free as in beer." ;-)
Thanks for the link, though.
ObGS: I made some edits of the DD/CS theme using Nero, but now they're long gone.
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[quote name=\'jalman\' post=\'117313\' date=\'Apr 29 2006, 12:53 PM\']
The program is actually "free as in speech (http://\"http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/\")." Hardly anything on SourceForge (http://\"http://sourceforge.net/docs/about\") is "free as in beer." ;-)
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While it's nice little political statement for them to make, I'd suggest reviewing the Wikipedia (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_beer\") definition, and you'll find that pretty much everything on SourceForge is in fact "free as in beer." It might be "free as in speech", too, but I've never seen a Sourceforge project you had to pay money to use.
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I am in receipt of a copy of the sound effect in question. It sounds to me like 120 Hz being applied to some kind of inductor that makes a buzzing noise, perhaps some kind of device cooked up in the NBC sound effects department.
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WOW... I thought I was the only one who has fond memories of the NAME/MATCH flip and its accompanying sound!
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[quote name=\'TheGameShowGuy\' post=\'118282\' date=\'May 11 2006, 11:36 PM\']
WOW... I thought I was the only one who has fond memories of the NAME/MATCH flip and its accompanying sound!
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Not in this group, toots. Heck, it goes back to the old a.t.-g.s. days...
(Poster: "David Johnson"): The Match Game (NBC version with two celebs)--the way the two halves of
"Match" in the title would come together on that one drumbeat in
"Swingin' Safari" plus the sound effect that accompanied the large
panels when they flipped to "MATCH", which sounded like a vacumm cleaner
that was switched on and off for a split second.