What is the correct onomotopaeic spelling of the Law & Order sound?

both beats have the same emphasis, elmo's right. it's just that first one's overwritten by the attack of the second one, which is allowed a slow decay.

no no! both beats have the same emphasis! SPONDEE.

I definitely hear the first one shorter/more staccato but haven't counted the note values so you could be right

ARGH I thought you were saying it was trochaic.

I need to hear this now! I feel there is a definite variation between the two sounds -- length, obviously, but also MIDI velocity! I'm sure of it!

nabisco: follow the link at the top of the thread?

http://www.audiologyillustrated.org/images/spondee.jpeg

If it were just length, the second one cutting off the decay/release of the first, it would sound like a stutter, and artificial. But it doesn't; it sounds more like an echo than a stutter -- the sounds are definitely shaped to be different, so they read naturally. The exact same sound triggered twice ... sounds like it.

I don't have speakers, so I should probably be quiet for a while.

I think remy's closest - the 2nd one is allowed to decay, which in some ears (mine for example) make it sound like a much longer note

see, i don't hear them as notes, but as percussive beats that reverb and decay.

all audio for television is compressed to fuck because otherwise commercial breaks blow your speaker cones

so the first and second are exactly the same except that the compression bites off the decay of the first hit completely, making only the second hit sound sustained.

it's really not like a big fucking puzzle people. Although I am going to start telling people it's based on the I Ching for "incomplete" because it's used to remind viewers that the show is not over yet.

yeah, with a lot of reverb, the second sound will seem to persist longer, but i don't think they are different in any other way.

oh wait never effing mind, I am dumb, I'm talking about the opening notes of the theme song. Which are to me "the Law and Order sound." Y'all are talking about the interstitial/chapter-change sound. I think those have identical note values (percussive beats are also notes!) and emphases.

I love the theme song and its slap bass so much.

lol at J0hn

in my defense I'd like to say that I'm the only guy here who's been to the L&O soundstages and got winked at by Mariska, so catch the vapors

ohhh shiiiiit

That's just a tympani at the start of the theme song, isn't it?

J0hn I still hate you for that, btw.

Because Olivia is MINE MINE.

you'll both have to share her with Yoshi

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-- El Tomboto, Friday, October 26, 2007 4:26 PM (2 hours ago)

LIES.

also, its clearly tuh tung

Yoshi's Island: Criminal Intent

Because Olivia is MINE MINE.

I don't know man, that's not how things looked when I was WALKING DOWN THE HALL WITH HER YES YES ACCEPT REALITY

There is also an ILXor who has touched Sam Waterston, so you might have competition.

seethe seethe seethe

you folks have nothing on THE PEOPLE WHO GOT JERRY ORBACH'S EYES

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_01_jerryorbach.JPG

i work for an eye bank and for a sec i was gonna be excited that maybe we got his eyes, but alas. damn you, orbach!

what i wouldn't give to know the cell count and death-to-preservation stats on those peepers of his.

this thread is fucking retarded.

short of having BRISCOE-VISION, i would possibly settle for chris meloni sitting on my face.

Looks like I'll be putting off lunch for another hour or two, then.

Her hair is Logan brown
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Jerry Orbach eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Serena Southerlyn stand off sighs
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please ya
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please ya
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
She knows ya
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

this thread is fucking retarded.

Hush, you, this is the greatest thread I have ever started.

And I realize that isn't saying much.

She's pure as New York snow

I just realized this lyric is hilarious

THUNK THUNK.

DUMP DUMP

KRUNK KRUNK

Fremmeneppe - Venetta

That's the theme song, nabisco.

BIRD WORD

We've discussed the theme song already:

Law and Order show
Law and Order show now
Law and Order show

Okay so first comes the law part,
and then comes the order part
First we'll arrest them and
then we'll indict them and
then ...

There is gonna be a twi - ist
And it'll blow your mind

Law and Order show ...

Those are the lyrics, not a phonetic transcription of the music!

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

dum dum da-nump dah
dum dum da-nump dah, dah
dum dum da-nump daaaaah

la de-de deedle da dee dee
da deedle da dee dee
da doodle-dee doodle-da
doodle-dee doodle-da DAAAAAA

bweedle-oop BA dup dup dup DWEE-DAAOOOW
bam bwanump BWEE-dwaow DAA

dum dum da-nump dah

TAN DUN

"So I told her, I'm not filing those reports unless you -- hey, what's THAT?"

"Someone call the police!"

LONG PIG

TIN TIN