How familiar were you with the original Battlestar Galactica in terms of sound design?
I watched [Battlestar] Galactica when I was a kid in the ‘70s and felt that some of the original Battlestar Galactica sound design had been done already on Star Wars by Ben Burtt. The lasers were the metal clanking on a guide wire sound effect that everyone associates with lasers only because that’s how they sounded in Star Wars. They didn’t pay attention to the idea of ‘no sound’ in space, it was as if they were just dog-fighting within the atmosphere. Two signature sounds stuck out in my mind that really needed to continue from the original series. The sound of the Cylon eye scanning and then there was a pulsing sound when they launched the Vipers out of the Galactica’s launch tubes. The original Cylon eye was kind of melodic, they later used a very similar sound effect for KITT on Knight Rider. Flash-forward and I was doing a lot of the effects builds while they were still cutting the miniseries. Michael Rymer, the director, had never really watched the original series. So I just pu
