[Marinedalek]

Originally Posted by Danny Stewart

I didn't isolate them from the theme itself. I had additional outside source material from which I (with much assistance from Pete) was able to extract them. It's impossible to get them from the original theme.

As I recall, the melodies were retrieved from the 1996 Destiny of the Doctors game, the samples of which I then treated with Waves x-noise to remove the 8-bit quantisation. These were then subtracted using Adobe Audition from a channel-subtracted copy of Mark Ayres' 2002 stereo mix to get the high pitched emphasis notes and low noise drones.

The cliffhanger scream was recreated from a number of sources including the bubble sample from the BBC Radiphon-a-tron, a sped-up version from the Sea Devils soundtrack (at the end of the Duel track if anyone's wondering) and a sample from the start of the 40s closing theme. These were then processed and treated in various ways to get a nice scream that tailed off nicely.

The bassline was fashioned by Danny's infinitely talented brother from a high-quality sample discovered by Chris Adams (Hardwire) on the radiophon-a-tron which subsequently mysteriously vanished from the BBC site. However, I believe the bassline is now made using the less-high-quality sample that currently resides on the BBC site. Opinion is divided on whether this is better or not: Danny and Ian say it is, I say it isn't.

Hmmm... this has turned more into a ramble than a nitpick, but to maintain conformity I have to end with the appropriate tag.