So I took that buzz and recorded it and combined it with the projector motor sound and that fifty-fifty kind of combination of those two sounds became the basic lightsaber tone.” “It picked up a transmission from the television set and a signal was induced into its sound reproducing mechanism, and that was a great buzz, actually. I went and recorded that sound, but it wasn’t quite enough.”īurtt felt it was still lacking a “buzzy sort of sparkling sound”, but he discovered the missing element by accident when he was walking past a muted TV with a microphone. “They had an interlock motor which connected them to the system when they just sat there and idled and made a wonderful humming sound. “I was a projectionist and we had a projection booth with some very, very old simplex projectors in them,” said Burtt, who has won four Academy Awards.
Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt is the man behind one of the most iconic sound effects in movie history. The dinosaur’s roar is actually a mix of pigs and monkeys.
