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Relax To Ambient Engine Sound Of The USS Enterprise (TOS & TNG)

| December 10, 2011 | By: Alex Fletcher 81 comments so far

Relax on the Enterprise

The following YouTube video, which appears to be going viral, comes from crysknife007 who says he loved the ambient sound of Star Trek: The Next Generation so much he cleaned up a clip from the show and looped it for 24 hours. (also available as a download )

And if you want to go old school. Here is 2 hours of engine noise from the original USS Enterprise from the 1960s Star Trek . [NOTE: Video has no image]

via Reddit .

Now I’ve heard everything!

Interesting idea… but I’d rather hear the sounds of the TOS Enterprise. “Ya ken tell how fast sheez goin’ just by the feel of the deck plates….”

Whats next, ambient Galactica for 24 hours? Not that that would be that relaxing, you’d feel like your house was about to fall apart.

I swear I remember some study back in the nineties that stated that the ambient noise on TNG had a calming effect.

I know it works on me, that’s for sure. Great stuff. :)

What about the ambient noise of farts ?

Slow news day?…

…and I’d far rather the comforting sounds of the ‘electronic hum’ and ‘beeps’ and ‘swishing doorway’ of the original TOS bridge, ahem.

how about the warp core next…

For SF inspired ambeince, you still can’t beat the TARDIS hum ….

They could use that for torture! Hours and hours of that….awful. I’m a big fan of Trek; but this is just going a bit far. It’s that, sometimes fine, line between fandom and the crazy stuff…

Can’t wait for TNG Blu-ray or Trek 12. Great stuff there.

Sounds good to me. But what about the Ambiant sound of the Agony Booth with the screams that go with it. That has a calming effect on me as well.

play both at the same time for ultimate geekdom!

When someone posts a loop of a klingon fart let me know.

http://whitenoisewarpcore.ytmnd.com/

Worf’s screams would be great!

What was so cool about TOS is you could instantly tell what room they were in by the ambient sounds. Bridge, transporter…engine room…they all had a sound unique to that room. Great sound design on that show…not so much on the sequels, everything was too similar.

5 & 12 –

This should get ya started…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-QnvoOd3WQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4PRaA5y48&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDcYivVKjFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp-_upAWng8&feature=related

Yeah, two minutes was about all I could take of that. I can not imagine letting that play for 24 hours.

Useful as pink noise. Also, those who find it grating, you’re not supposed to play it so loud.

I’ve always loved the ambient sound from the ships. I can’t imagine visiting set and not hearing that sound.

not new to me. I used to relax to any of the TOS rooms more than 20 years ago. amazon.com/gp/product/B000QZX0XS/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000001P04&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QMDJX3HP25FG9KRENN6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swm1yVHOBbk&feature=related

‘Nuff said.

This is awesome! Any chance of getting the ambient sound of the engine room?

I specifically downloaded the System 47 screensaver so that I could fall asleep to the sounds of the Enterprise E. Saying that actually reminds me of Nicholas Meyer’s commentary on the merchandise he wanted for Star Trek VI. “Wouldn’t you sleep better in the blankets that keep the crew of the Enterprise warm?”

Screw the haters, this is awesome! I love this stuff! I would love to have this in the background of my lab playing all the time, it would me feel like I’m not doing remedial work!

Yawn. Now if it was the TOS warp power-up then I’d be interested.

Now, does anyone know the exact decible level that these should be played at for the true experience, or is that taking things too far?

Relaxing. That’s exactly what it’s always been to me. There’s another version of the corridor ambient noise where the beats are faster that has always been so soothing to me. You always heard it when they were walking through to their quarters ( I remember it in particular at the beginning of “Amok Time”.) It’s my favorite and almost therapeutic.

Ive always thought that when I had that dream house, ….with the great kitchen, and wooden floors, and three car garage, and instant hot water, and personal study/office with brown wood and leather chairs, and a globe of the world in it (because important people are always supposed to have one in their study) and itd have an adjoining hidden room behind the bookcase that served as a storage and viewing room for all the expensive Golden Age comics I don’t really have — (but then again, this is my dream house), and the great media room, and all the other things I don’t have……that I’d also have an exact replica, on one wing of the house that looked and sounded like a deck from TOS Enterprise. Complete with that sound going 24/7.

Play both at the same time, wowzers!

Anyone know where I could download these sounds as MP3 audio files?

Maybe it’s just me, but all I hear is the sound of my computer speakers…I don’t hear anything that sounds like ambient sounds of the Enterprise on either clip.

@29: This is what I use: http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

It converts YouTube videos to mp3. It appears there was an upgrade a few months ago, so I’m glad you asked.

I can hear the TNG one but get nothing from the TOS clip even though the play counter is moving. Happens when I try to watch it at YouTube, so it’s not an embed problem, it’s something with the original video.

In the meantime, here’s 5 minutes of TOS ambient bridge sounds… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlDGwSZfHDQ&feature=player_embedded

I actually like the quivering picolo-type sound in the bridge background on the Reliant. It sounds every few minutes and you can hear it when no one speaks. You can hear it on the HMS Bounty in Voyage Home after Kirk gives his lecture about primitive culture and Earths lack of ET experience and Spock ties his robe fragment around his head to cover his ears. That affect works well in the former ship for its sounding like the ping of sonar on submarines.

You know what? I was a baby and young child when TNG was on the air and my grandmother watched it all the time. New episodes and then reruns once they kicked up. Some of the first sounds I reacted to with a measure of comfort were the hum of the Enterprise-D’s engines.

I often use rainymood.com to help me sleep at night but I’d be willing to bet this will work too. I have a connection to that hum in an admittedly weird way, and I think it’s going to do just fine as an occasional replacement.

I’ll have to admit that the TNG sound of the Enterprise D is soothing. I feel like I’m in a very safe, high tech starship.

It was really interesting to discover when watching the dvd extras for XI that when it came to designing the sound for the new film, they had real difficulty in recreating those sounds. Apparently the original sound designer left no notes behind on how they were done. I just assumed they’d somehow sample them from the original if it came to it, but I guess there’s just no substitute for the “real” thing…

What junk. My water and heating boiler sounds slot better than that

Cool! That ambient sound is similar to that of a mild Earthquake.

30. Captain Karl – December 10, 2011 “Maybe it’s just me, but all I hear is the sound of my computer speakers…I don’t hear anything that sounds like ambient sounds of the Enterprise on either clip.”

The sound of your speakers? What sound is that? I mean, speakers produce the sounds we put through them–music, movies, ambient warp-engine noise–but they don’t really have a sound of their own.

Both clips worked perfectly for me, right away, right after this story was posted and still today. But I’m really curious about what “the sound of my computer speakers” sounds like… It’s like saying, “The only thing I see on my tv is the image of the tv.” Huh?

aw.. TOS Enterprise’s engines are indeed “purrin’ like happy kittens”. Thank you fpr posting this…

I’m sorry, but that’s no different than having my air conditioner run all day…

Ahhhh, this helped me get to sleep last night.

I am typing this from on board the USS Enterprise-D, apparently. Unless my ears deceive me.

wow someone was bored

Oh nice idea… the TOS sound is more soothing actually :)

I had a track like this for years that i pulled from a video game its not exactly revolutionary but still cool

I like bridge chimes/beeps/whirs myself. Soothing.

It’s making me sleepy…

hehe never tried this but I’ve definitely fallen asleep to the ambient noise of TOS Blu-Ray menus. Bridge sounds chirping away in my dreams.

This could be the reason why my son puts on a TNG episode to watch when he can’t sleep, but is tired, and sure enough, ten minutes into the programme, he’s out to it. The same happens to me as well, especially any TOS, TNG or Star Trek 09. It’s not that we are bored. We are just tired and watching what is good and familiar can have a soporific effect.

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The Sounds of Your Favorite Sci-Fi Ship Could Just Be the Hum of a Freezer

Those spaceships sounds aren't coming from a spaceship after all.

For proof, you need look no further than YouTuber Spike Snell, and his video " Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs) ," which has over two million views. Recently talked to Snell, and sound designer Michael Lago about what makes those sounds so soothing and comforting. 

Lago, a sound effects editor for Warner Brothers, worked on shows like  The Shannara Chronicles  and  Arrow . He's created ambient noises for ships before, the inspiration for which can come from anywhere: "One thing I did for The 100 [a sci-fi show on The CW]," Lago says, "I was shopping at a Fresh and Easy, and they had this freezer that made this incredible, 'OOOOMMMMM.' So I just stuck my recorder in there and closed it, and just stood outside of the freezer for a minute or so. Then I took that recording, and cleaned it up, and it was kind of elegant."

When asked to pick his favorite spaceship sound, with options ranging from  Battlestar Galactica   to  Klingon cruisers  to the (real)  International Space Station . Despite all is options, Lago still loves the NCC-1701-D of  The Next Generation the most for its "practicality." Though who knows, maybe it is really just some dishwasher. 

You can read more about sci-fi ship sounds over at  Atlas Obscura .

David Grossman is a staff writer for PopularMechanics.com. He's previously written for The Verge, Rolling Stone, The New Republic and several other publications. He's based out of Brooklyn.

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Being There: Ambient Loops from Famous Sci-Fi TV and Movies

A look into the fascinating subculture of ambient sound loops, taken directly from sci-fi tv and movies like blade runner, star trek and alien.

For all the attention afforded services like Spotify, Pandora, Beats, and SoundCloud, YouTube remains an active place of musical reinterpretation and presentations, the official videos and VEVO channels supplemented by unofficial remixes, live bootlegs and users’ own creative efforts. One of the most interesting musical microtrends hosted there, though, might also be one of its most mysterious. It might even be hard to call it music at all.

It can best be described as loops of ambient sound from movies and TV – and, very specifically, science fiction productions. Samplers have never simply limited themselves to other songs – creative producers have raided whole sonic libraries and artistic contexts, with movie dialogue or iconic noises and moments often the chief choices. Yet this particular derivation steps beyond all that to focus in on the background noise of such audiovisual creations like Star Trek , Star Wars , the Alien series of movies, and Doctor Who – all of which have been sources of some of these YouTube-specific loops.

One high profile fan is Jason DeMarco, Adult Swim vice president and the figure behind their yearly online singles series. Asked about the appeal of these clips, he said, “The sound design of those ’80s sci-fi movies is just so rich and thick. You remember all sorts of elements, because a lot of those sounds were proprietary. Some of them would show up in other films too. Listening to them now, these mixes have a very strange way of putting me back into my childhood, when these worlds mattered so much to me, and yet they also drop me into their individual worlds – all at the same time.”

The most famous example, and apparently the most popular at nearly a million-and-a-half views, is a 24-hour loop of the idling engine noise from the Enterprise-D , the chief starship in Star Trek: the Next Generation . Its creator, YouTube user crysknife007 , described the effort on its page as “great for ambiance and imagining you’re in deep space.” He’s created a variety of similar loops from other sources, but sci-fi movies remain key; recently he’s put up examples drawing from Alien , Battlestar Galactica and 2001: A Space Odyssey , among other iconic films and series.

Listening to any one of these pieces rapidly becomes a dual listening experience. On the one hand, it can transform a space – much more than a poster on one’s wall, say, or even watching a film or TV episode, the ambience suggests and fills the location, turning the mundane into something a little more adventurous, mysterious, call it what you want. That experience is, of course, informed by knowledge of the subject – if you recognize the ambient sound, there’s the pleasure of knowing its context. But on the other level, the act of looping, extending and otherwise transforming what would normally only be the aural bed of a scene – and presumably a short scene for the most part, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 being the possible exception – turns that mood moment into a new kind of composition.

The aforementioned 24 hour Next Generation piece is a perfect test case for this. There’s an initial jolt of reaction, a recognition of it as the just-something-extra that underscores, say, the beginning of an episode where a slight orchestral fanfare also plays and Patrick Stewart briskly begins another entry in the captain’s log. But divorced from that context it rapidly takes on the character of an endless, unsettling drone – the type of thing that might be called dark ambient. If it had been released by a figure like Mick Harris or Robert Hampson , nobody would blink.

My own personal favorite of these tracks comes from another YouTube user, coffee300am . His choice of movie is one used by many, 1982’s Blade Runner , the moody Philip K. Dick-inspired masterpiece. Director Ridley Scott’s emphasis on a total environment included the sound work by veterans like Bud Alper and Graham Hartstone. Various ambient loop tracks from the movie include street scenes and flight scenes, but coffee300am created “ 1 Hour of Ambient Sound From Inside Deckards Apartment .”

That the movie is often quiet and intense is part of its considerable impact, but Deckard’s apartment sound is in its own strangely homey way almost cozy – not soothing per se, but close. It’s easy to imagine oneself in Deckard’s shoes – or if you prefer, Rachael ’s – having a drink, thinking about something, pondering the future while a central moaning rise and fall of a sound overlaid with a lengthy, drawn out electronic chant, for lack of a better word, plays out.

As with the other general loop creations the sameness becomes part of the perverse, unexpected appeal, minimalism becoming its own justification. Yet there’s something extra as well in this presentation – every so often other sounds are heard, indistinct, as if it really was a field recording in this apartment, if it really existed. Distant mechanical grinds, soft hovering tones, and once, thrillingly, a sudden police siren burst from one of the film’s iconic spinner cars as it shoots along outside.

One fan of this piece is experimental composer Kyle Bobby Dunn , who described it as “just soothing and empty and placid in a way that is both comforting and terrifying.” DeMarco also chose this piece as his favorite, explaining, “Some of (these clips) are just basically a futuristic version of ‘room tone,’ and some of them, like the Blade Runner clip, have a more musical quality, where certain elements ebb and flow and loop back on themselves. I like both kinds. For me, the Blade Runner loop is as ‘musical’ as Eno, Aphex Twin or any of my favorite ambient music.”

Exactly where or how this particular form may develop – if it develops further at all – remains a question. Not least because YouTube’s particular model of presentation may soon no longer be as amenable a hosting experience as it has been until now. But for now, ambient loops like this are their own intriguing experience, something that resists easy classification – much like the best of its source materials.

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