Apparently, the producers of the new Hawaii Five-O got as many of the original musicians from the 1968-1980 TV series with Jack Lord – and re-recorded the theme song for CBS’s new series.
I searched all over online for the Hawaii Five-O theme song and found nothing – so i tried to make it myself.
After recording an episode, I turned the Waitsfield Cable supplied DVR aroundout and hooked an 1/8″ mini stereo jack to dual RCA up to the output port to peel the new Hawaii Five-O (or is it 0) them song from the new TV show.
I used the free software Audacity on my Windows Vista laptop and plugged the 1/8″ mini into the microphone plug. Choosing the onboard microphone port in Audacity as the input allowed me to play the taped (recorded?) audio from the opening scene of Hawaii Five-o straight into Audacity after hitting the record button.
Once the theme song ended, i had a raw copy of 35 seconds including some extraneous front and back end audio. I saved it to the raw file and then used Audacity to delete a few seconds from the beginning and a second off the end.
Then i highlighted 1/4 second on the beginning, chose Effects menu, Fade In and it creates a zero to full volume fade in.
Next, i highlight the last 1/4 second and choose Effects, Fade out to create the fade to silence on the end. I saved the project file so i had an original proof and then use FILE menu, Export as WAV and save it to a folder.
Now it’s off to iTunes to get the Ringtone converted and in so i can use it on my iPhone.
First i add the WAV file to my library:
I converted a copy to AAC by right-clicking on the WAV file and “Create AAC version”
Now that there is an AAC version of the audio, i need to find the file and rename it to make it a ringtone (from .m4a to .m4r). I use iTunes Get Info to find the location of the AAC file:
which shows me where the audio file is located
I make sure my Windows Explorer is going to show me file extensions by going to Control Panels, Folder Options and using
Using Windows Explorer, we change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r 
- and bing bang boom, you have a ringtone file!
Or, you can download the New Hawaii Five-O ringtone i made and just import it into your iTunes.
Enjoy!
Steve Butcher
P.S. I also made a >futuristic Nokia ringtone from the Star Trek 11 audio when the young James T. Kirk jacked his step-dad’s ’66 Corvette off a cliff.
